Science education programs for New Haven students from elementary school through Yale College will be funded by a four-year, $1.8 million grant to Yale University from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The programs start with third through...
A French physicist who has been hailed as the “Isaac Newton of our time” for his ability to reduce a broad range of complex phenomena to a few simple truths will deliver the first Silliman Lectures of the 1998-99 academic year at Yale University....
James Gustave Speth, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, has been named dean of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, President Richard C. Levin announced today. Speth’s appointment is effective July 1,...
Three Yale University scientists – a Hungarian mathematician known for his work on the theory of computers, an anthropologist specializing in lemurs, and an expert in computer vision and robotics – recently were named to endowed chairs by vote of the...
In the quest to make faster computer chips and more efficient semiconductor lasers, scientists are exploring the relatively new field of “spintronics,” in which the direction an electron spin is pointing is just as important as its charge. Bringing...
Two vaccines designed to protect humans against Lyme disease have been shown to be effective in tests at the Yale University School of Medicine, where one of the vaccines was pioneered and where the tick-borne illness first was described in 1975....
Ronald R. Coifman of North Haven, a mathematician who is noted for his work in data compression and restoration, has been named the Phillips Professor of Mathematics by vote of the Yale Corporation, Yale’s governing body. Coifman, a professor in both...
Richard Beals of Hamden, a Yale alumnus and longtime faculty member, has been appointed the James E. English Professor of Mathematics by vote of the Yale Corporation, Yale’s governing body. Beals’ research is in the areas of differential operators,...
Attached is a statement made today by Yale University President Richard C. Levin announcing Yale’s support for Science Park, a business park adjacent to the University. The statement was made at a 2:30 p.m. news conference in the Park, which was...
By simultaneously attacking two genes that are found in all strains of the influenza virus, Yale University researchers have succeeded in curbing reproduction of the virus in mouse cells in tissue cultures. If successful in animal and human studies,...
