When Jo Handelsman was 16 years old, she read a book by the late Yale plant physiologist Arthur Galston and became convinced her ambition to help feed the world was not misplaced.More than three decades later, she occupies the late Galston’s former office...
What do cook stoves in Bangladesh have to do with F-15 jet fuel? Or a plant fungus discovered in the Amazonian rain forest with sustainable architecture? As the faculty who attended the West Campus Energy Symposium on Feb. 27 learned, these are just some...
Two Yale faculty, neuroscientist Daniel A. Colón-Ramos and astronomer Marla Geha, have won Sloan Foundation Fellowships in recognition of their “outstanding promise.”The prestigious awards, given annually to 118 early-career researchers, recognize “...
“Dinosaur Train” host and paleontologist Scott Sampson will examine “Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent” in a talk at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History on Thursday, March 4.Sampson will speak at 5:30 p.m. at the museum, located at 170 Whitney Ave....
Michael Waldholz, managing editor of global health, science and environment at Bloomberg News, will be the guest at a Pierson College master’s tea on Wednesday, Feb. 24. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. in the...
Larry Stewart, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, will deliver the opening Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on Wednesday, Feb. 24.Stewart’s talk, titled “Experiment and Response: Discovering the Philosophic Audience in...
Bruce F. Carmichael, the deputy dean for academic administration in the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS), died suddenly on Feb. 1. He was 63 years old.Carmichael had served in his current post since 2008. He had previously served for...
A. Douglas Stone, the Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics and chair of applied physics, has been elected as a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA).Stone is one of 63 fellows who were elevated to the rank for 2010. He was awarded the honor...
Science exploration was the theme of the evening when area middle and high school students gathered at the Peabody Museum of Natural History on Jan. 16 for a special event sponsored by Yale Science Pathways, an outreach program that connects local youths...
Four Yale professors have been elected by their peers in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as fellows in honor of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.They are: Mark...
