Robert Apfel, the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University, has been named editor of Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO), a new electronic journal that publishes the results of research in acoustics, medical ultrasound,...
A recent finding that intelligence is located in a particular area of the brain is a limited approach that does little to explain the roots of intelligence, a Yale professor says. “It’s like saying the intelligence of a computer is in the silicon chip...
A memorial service will be held in the fall for E. Turan Onat, a mechanical engineering professor at Yale University. Onat died in New Haven July 4 at the age of 75. A native of Turkey, Onat received his engineering diploma in 1948 and a doctor of...
Yale University announced today the appointment of Paul A. Fleury as the University’s next dean of engineering, succeeding D. Allan Bromley, who stepped down on June 30. Fleury, most recently the dean of engineering at the University of New Mexico, is...
A one-cent tax on soft drinks, candy, chips and other snack foods could raise $1.8 billion for national health promotion programs aimed at reducing obesity, a Yale study shows. The tax and resulting revenue were outlined in a study published in the June...
Yale researchers have identified how plants adjust their growth patterns to adapt to various lighting environments, paving the way for development of bigger, stronger plants that are more tolerant to pests and pathogens-bacteria and fungus. “Our study...
Yale chemistry lecturer Iona Black has received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) for her contributions to the education of chemistry and chemical engineering students. The...
The top official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Administrator Carol M. Browner, will deliver a major speech at Yale April 26. Browner will deliver her address, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment into the Next Century,”...
Yale Professor Jennifer Doudna, whose leading work in structural biology provided an answer to how RNA can act like an enzyme, has been awarded the prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation. The award is made each year to...
With a box full of motors, pistons, springs, pieces of wood, metal, and other materials, Yale mechanical engineering students are building machines intended to rescue the mythological Persephone from the underworld. “Robot Wars 2000,” an annual...