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...
Nathan Myhrvold, Ph.D., chief technology officer and member of the Executive Committee at Microsoft Corp., will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. His talk, titled “The Future of Software,” will be presented Thursday, Oct...
Teams from Connecticut and New York high schools will compete Saturday, Oct.. 17, in the Yale Physics Olympics. The event, which will be held at Sloane Physics Laboratory, 217 Prospect St., is designed to stimulate interest in science and to provide...
Electrical engineering professor Tso-Ping Ma uses the creation of “Post-Its” as an analogy for the prize-winning invention of his graduate student Jin-Ping Han. Years ago, researchers at 3-M Corp. were trying to concoct the stickiest glue, but came up...
Robert Glaser, founder and chief executive officer of RealNetworks, the recognized leader in “streaming” media products and services for the Internet, will be the next Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering. His talk, titled “The...
A one-day symposium designed to educate health-care professionals about clinical and molecular advances in blood and marrow transplants will be held 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. The...
The Yale University psychiatry department’s new PRIME Research Clinic – short for Prevention through Risk Identification, Management and Education – is revolutionary in its focus on the early identification and prevention of schizophrenia and other...
The discovery nearly two decades ago of naturally occurring ribonucleic acid (RNA) enzymes earned Yale biochemist Sidney Altman and University of Colorado researcher Thomas Cech the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In separate experiments, Altman and...
A newly released study of health risks from radon in Connecticut’s drinking water supplies concludes that such exposure poses a minimal threat to public health, primarily by increasing overall exposure slightly when radon in the water is released into...
