Hong Tang, assistant professor of electrical and mechanical engineering, has received a CAREER award from the Faculty Early Career Development Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).The NSF CAREER Award is one of the highest honors for young...
Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.A year ago, the last place that three Yale graduate students would have expected to find themselves was in Chile, hunting...
Yale’s astronomers will be spending a lot more time in Hawaii from now on, but don’t expect them to come back with suntans and macadamia nuts. Instead, they’ll be spending long nights probing far into the distant reaches of the universe, thanks to a $12...
Dawn Landino has no trouble distinguishing between Shepards purse and Pussytoes, or chinchbug and sod webworm, or dollar spot and stripe smut.Her knowledge of these weeds, insect pests and turf diseases, respectively, helped earn her a place in Yale’s...
The relationship between Charles Darwin and his ship captain Robert Fitzroy will be the focus of the English Department’s annual staged reading.This year’s event will take place on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 5:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for...
A demonstration featuring a choreographer of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and the North American premiere of films by Kanai Katsu are among the highlights of a symposium taking place on campus Friday-Sunday, Feb. 27-March 1.Titled “East...
With spring (hopefully) just around the corner, Yale Sustainable Food Project volunteers planted seedlings for the upcoming growing season. A video about the project and the planting may be found at the link below. View Video:Yale...
Elderly women who suffer a first “mini-stroke” are less likely than men of the same age to be readmitted to a hospital, according to a study led by the Yale School of Public Health. The paper appears in the online version of Stroke, the journal of the...
A three-judge panel has named Allen Grossman the 2009 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.The Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library to an...
In an effort to accelerate improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare in developing nations around the world, Yale University has launched the Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI). The mission of the GHLI is to strengthen the...