Youngsters and adults alike will soon be able to tour the cosmos without leaving their seats, thanks to the opening of a new planetarium at Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St. The renamed Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium is set...
By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...
With HHMI funding, these Yale scientists are working to solve some of the most challenging biomedical mysteries.When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has gone looking for biomedical researchers of “intellectual daring” in recent years, one place...
Yale physicist Jack Harris has demonstrated that one doesn’t have to be a research veteran to push back the frontiers of science.Like Einstein, who was only 26 years old when he came up with the theory of special relativity, Harris — an assistant...
Paul Anastas, the inaugural Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment, is widely regarded as the “father of green chemistry.”Green chemistry is the study of how to design chemical products and processes in...
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, a postdoctoral fellow in physics, is one of five American women who have been honored by L’Oréal U.S.A. with a 2008 Fellowship for Women in Science.Bleszynski-Jayich has developed new techniques for creating the extreme conditions...
Yale University is one of five recipients of a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance informatics research tools for neuroscientists around the world. The five-year grant administered by the University of California-San Diego...
Growing up, Matthew Eckelman couldn’t stand to see his parents toss a soda can in the garbage. “I was one of those kids who annoyed my parents to no end trying to get them to set up household recycling,” he says. “Now, they’re even more ardent about...
Andrew Revkin, Environment Reporter for the New York Times, will speak at Yale University on November 12, 6:00 p.m., in the Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street.Revkin’s lecture, “The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Global Warming, from the North...
It wasn’t the kind of strategizing you’d expect to overhear during an Olympic event. “You have to make sure the spring is even,” said Richard Kwan, a senior from Weston High School, as he fiddled delicately with one of the three cylinders hanging from the...