For some time after Yale University purchased the 136 acres of office buildings, streams and woodlands that comprised the former Bayer Pharmaceutical complex in 2007, the primary occupants of West Campus were turkey, geese, deer and coyotes.That is no...
Two Yale graduate students have been chosen as the first recipients of a new fellowship honoring the memory of graduate student Annie Le.The fellowship, established with an initial gift from Yale of $100,000, will benefit doctoral students in the...
Yale astronomer C. Megan Urry has won the annual Women in Space Science Award, given by the Women’s Board of the Adler Planetarium to “an outstanding woman in space science who exemplifies the characteristics that lead to success academically and in the...
Rong Fan arrived at Yale a mere five months ago, but his plans to revolutionize diagnostic testing are already gaining attention. The assistant professor of biomedical engineering has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant to improve the way...
Paleontologists have discovered a rich array of exceptionally preserved fossils of marine animals that lived between 480 million and 472 million years ago, during the early part of a period known as the Ordovician. The specimens are the oldest yet...
When people at cocktail parties used to ask Charles Schmuttenmaer what he did, he would say he was a chemistry professor who worked on transient-photo conductivity in gallium arsenide. “At that point they would generally ask me to pass the chips,” the...
Vision may be something that most of us take for granted, but not Elsa Yan. The assistant professor of chemistry has been studying the molecular basis of vision since she started applying physical chemistry techniques to study molecular biology problems...
Mitchell D. Smooke, the Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, has been named a 2010 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).SIAM is an international community of over 13,000 individual members,...
A team of Yale University scientists has discovered a previously unknown type of molecular scissors that can tailor micro-RNAs, tiny snippets of genetic material that play a key role in regulating many of life’s functions.The team also found that the...
If powerful new quantum computers are to reach their enormous potential, they will need amplifiers capable of transmitting signals so weak they consist of a single photon. In the May 6 edition of the journal Nature, a team of Yale scientists report...