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...
Long before the dinosaurs ruled Earth, the planet was populated by tiny, wriggling creatures that left behind traces of their passage in the form of elaborate swirls and other patterns permanently preserved in stone. Examples of these and other “...
In a Peruvian valley only recently touched by the pressures of urbanization, Yale University scientists have found evidence of ancient Andean metallurgy dating as far back as 3,400 years ago, almost a millennium earlier than previously thought. Thin...
Henry P. Becton, director emeritus of Becton Dickinson and Company, will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. His talk, titled “Bringing a 100-year-old Company into its Second Century,” will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 17, at...
American environmental historian William Cronon, who is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be this fall’s Zucker Environmental Fellow. Cronon will lecture...
George David, chairman and chief executive officer at United Technologies Corp., will be the next Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering. His talk, titled “UTC Positioned for the Next Millennium,” will be presented Thursday, Nov. 5...
Medical scientist Joan A. Steitz, who is internationally renowned for her contributions to the field of molecular genetics, has been named Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry by vote of the Yale Corporation. Steitz’s studies have...
Paul B. Sigler, a specialist at Yale on the chemical mechanisms in cell regulatory processes, has been named the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry by vote of the Yale Corporation. Sigler is engaged in the study of two cell...
