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...
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...