Leo Hickey, a leading paleobotanist and Renaissance man who led Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History from 1982 to 1987, died on Feb. 9. He was 72. The cause was melanoma, said his wife of 45 years, Judy.Leo HickeyA wake is planned for Thursday, Feb....
Barbara Guthrie, recently designated as the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing, focuses her research on health promotion and risk reduction programs for adolescent girls from diverse ethnic, social, and environmental backgrounds.Guthrie, who...
Jay D. Humphrey, newly appointed as the inaugural John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering, studies vascular mechanics and mechanobiology.Using both experimental and advanced computational methods, his research seeks to understand mechanisms of...
[video:http://vimeo.com/25593920]A scientist’s biology lecture on flight goes awry when she reveals her own extreme experiments in “Theory of Flight” — the next offering in the new Franke Lectures in Science and the Humanities.“Theory of Flight” is “a...
Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer ’87 will be interviewed at Yale for a YouTube video, and Yale Tumblr is inviting members of the public to submit questions about the scientific issues they’d most like to hear him discuss.The video with Zimmer, a...
Laurie R. Santos, associate professor of psychology, will be one of the featured guests for a live chat on “The Secrets of Your Dog’s Mind,” which will hosted by Science magazine at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28.Laurie R. Santos“When it comes to studying...
Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa may not be able to cure his patients’ brain cancer, but there is one thing that the internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist can provide them with: hope.Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-HinojosaDuring a recent visit to...