Yale University recently was ranked fourth among America’s top research universities when “citation impact” was used to assess scientific performance. Citation impact was measured by calculating the average number of times an institution’s published...
Industrial ecology professor Thomas E. Graedel of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies recently was appointed chair of the Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences Committee by the National Academy of Sciences. The committee’s role is...
In the Greek myth of Phaethon, the chariot of the Sun inadvertently drives too close to the Earth, creating the Sahara desert with its scorching heat. Whether that myth is based in some small part on observations of a “superflare” emanating from the Sun...
1. Ancient Andean Metallurgy May Have Started a Millennium Earlier 2. Roots of Unconscious Prejudice Found in 90-95 Percent of People 3. Billion-year-old Worms Show “Slow Burn” Before Cambrian Explosion 4. Water Squeezed from Rocks May Trigger...
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation today awarded a $126,500, two-year grant to the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) to support an 11-week summer internship program for graduate students in public and nonprofit...
An article by Daniel A. Updegrove, Yale University’s Director of Information Technology Services, has won the 1998 CAUSE/EFFECT Contribution of the Year Award. The article, titled “Is Strategic Planning for Technology an Oxymoron?,” appeared in the...
The Yale Forest Forum, sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will host a panel discussion titled “In the Hands of Children: Managing Forests, Society and Ourselves through Environmental Education,” on Friday, Dec. 11, 4-6 p...
Jack Ward Thomas, former chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, will speak at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies on Dec. 7 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Thomas currently is the...
Chemical reactions in the Earth’s middle crust that cause rocks to dehydrate and fracture under pressure may trigger repeated earthquakes along some fault zones, according to research published in the Nov. 15 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters,...
Yale and Cornell University biochemists have unveiled the three-dimensional chemical structure of a key protein that is the target of TNP-470, an experimental drug that shows promise for starving cancerous tumors. The discovery could help pharmaceutical...
