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...
Bruce F. Carmichael has been named deputy dean for academic administration in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, effective Nov. 17. “We are extremely fortunate to have Bruce join us at this time of growth and strategic planning for our new...
Nearly 50 years ago, Yale scientist George Veronis helped found a program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) through which researchers from around the world could discuss and debate how water and other fluids move in the ocean, on planets...
Microsoft External Research has named Jun Korenaga, Yale associate professor of geology and geophysics, as an A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award winner for his research on how the movement of Earth’s surface plates contributes to the...
Yale alumnus Michael J. Rooks joined the Yale Institute of Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE) on Oct. 1 as associate director for research facilities.In his new post, Rooks will be responsible for working with Yale faculty in the planning,...
Mark Hochstrasser, the newly named Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is engaged in research at the crossroads of biochemistry and genetics aimed at understanding at a molecular level how specific eukaryotic proteins are...
The American Physical Society (APS) has chosen two Yale physicists to receive two of its prestigious annual awards.Ramamurti Shankar, the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics, is the 2009 winner of the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, “awarded for...
Five Yale students have their feet firmly back on the ground after experiencing weightlessness while testing their self-designed and constructed experiment onboard a gravity-defying NASA aircraft this summer.The students - known as the Yale Drop Team -...
David A. McCormick, recently appointed the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, studies cellular and network mechanisms of cortical function in the brain.His laboratory uses a variety of in vitro and in vivo approaches, from patch clamp...
