The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences held its inaugural symposium on Oct. 16 at West Campus.The day-long event was a dual-pronged celebration: first, honoring the gift by the Sacklers that helped...
The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce recently honored Bruce D. Alexander, vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development, with its Community Leadership Award.“For the past 11 years, on behalf of Yale, Bruce has devoted himself...
How do you become one of the brightest young scientists in the country? Knowing what you want to do before you’re 10 years old doesn’t hurt — at least in Yale astronomer Marla Geha’s case.She remembers watching the launch of the first Space Shuttle from...
Yale University researchers have detected the effects of natural selection among two generations of contemporary women and predict their descendents will be slightly shorter and chubbier, have lower cholesterol and blood pressure and have their first...
On a wind-whipped afternoon under the aerial salute of a great egret, a great blue heron and a host of curious seagulls, officials from the City of New Haven and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History unveiled an educational exhibit at Lighthouse...
Hong Tang, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science, has been awarded a 2009 Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the foundation announced Thursday.The fellowship is given...
What if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and biology? Could this help resolve the undeniable global problems we face today within the context of a new cosmic perspective?Yale University invites you to explore...
Leveraging more than $25 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Yale School of Medicine has created a new research center to study how our brain evolved uniquely human traits. Its founders hope that the center will identify new...
Evolutionary biology theory predicts that males usually won’t invest a lot of time raising offspring when there is a good chance they are not the fathers. Yale University researchers have found a notable exception to this premise—a male fish in the...
Yale College senior Jocelyn Traina is studying a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. She needs to know physics to understand the lasers that she uses, biology to purify the protein for experiments, chemistry to test how it reacts in those...