Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, has been awarded the very prestigious Japan Prize by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. The international prize recognizes “original and outstanding...
The Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology has received a gift from Monsanto Company that will support postdoctoral and graduate research at Yale University in the United States and Peking University in China. The...
On November 15-16, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will host “Man and Beast,” a symposium that will gather scholars from many disciplines to explore the complex relationship between Homo sapiens and other members of the animal kingdom. What...
Yale has received a four-year, $2.1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support science education programs that enhance opportunities for undergraduates who study science at Yale and to fund science outreach programs for New...
Pierre C. Hohenberg, deputy provost for science and technology and adjunct professor of physics and applied physics has received the prestigious 2003 Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society. Hohenberg received the honor for research...
Yale has received an $18.1 million award to establish one of 10 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Proteomics Centers that will develop innovative proteomic technologies to diagnose and treat heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders....
Carol Browner, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will discuss “The Women in Charge: Women in Environmental and Natural Resource Leadership” on October 16, at noon in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale School of...
A four-year, $1.2 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles will establish the grant-funded W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Quantum Information Physics at Yale. Exploring the science and technology necessary to build a quantum computer...
The second annual Yale and New Haven Biotechnology Reception, sponsored by the Yale Biotechnology Student Interest Group, a student organization interested in promoting local biotechnology development, will take place on September 20 beginning at 12:30 p...
Yale University will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of an extraordinary alumnus, Edward Alexander Bouchet, throughout the 2002-03 academic year, beginning this month. Bouchet was the first African American student to graduate Yale College (...