Priyamvada Natarajan, associate professor of astronomy and physics, and Jaime Lara, a lecturer at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, have been named 2009 fellows by the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed not only on the basis of...
Olympic hopefuls flexed their brains, rather than their brawn, when Yale’s Department of Chemistry hosted tryouts for this year’s national Chemistry Olympiad on April 25.The annual competition, which has been sponsored by the American Chemical Society...
Eleven Yale faculty members have been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) in recognition of their contributions to the advancement of science.To be elected to the academy, scientists and engineers must achieve distinction...
David M. Smith, the Morris K. Jessup Professor Emeritus of Silviculture at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), died on March 7 at the Whitney Center in Hamden. He was 87.After earning his Master of Forestry in 1946 from F&ES...
Best-selling author Dava Sobel will give a public talk on April 28 at Yale to kick off a special astronomy exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book Library. The lecture and exhibition are part of the Department of Astronomy’s year-long series of events to...
Scientists dream of the day when they can create designer proteins capable of inhibiting harmful interactions, modifying substrates or guiding cellular machines to where they are needed within the body. Though that dream may be far down the road, Yale...
A young black man with the grades and the desire to attend the Yale School of Medicine in the 1800s faced seemingly insurmountable odds, but the power of relationships is what made it possible for Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed to beat those odds, said...
In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Gallilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter and other features of the sky.The discoveries Galileo made 400...
Translating basic research into new technologies that advance our health and welfare has been part of Yale’s “DNA” for centuries, and the pace of innovation at the University continues to accelerate dramatically. Visit the “Yale Innovators” website....
The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research on the obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. Saltzman and Levene will develop new...
