The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences held its inaugural symposium on Oct. 16 at West Campus.The day-long event was a dual-pronged celebration: first, honoring the gift by the Sacklers that helped...
The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce recently honored Bruce D. Alexander, vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development, with its Community Leadership Award.“For the past 11 years, on behalf of Yale, Bruce has devoted himself...
How do you become one of the brightest young scientists in the country? Knowing what you want to do before you’re 10 years old doesn’t hurt — at least in Yale astronomer Marla Geha’s case.She remembers watching the launch of the first Space Shuttle from...
On a wind-whipped afternoon under the aerial salute of a great egret, a great blue heron and a host of curious seagulls, officials from the City of New Haven and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History unveiled an educational exhibit at Lighthouse...
What if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and biology? Could this help resolve the undeniable global problems we face today within the context of a new cosmic perspective?Yale University invites you to explore...
Yale College senior Jocelyn Traina is studying a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. She needs to know physics to understand the lasers that she uses, biology to purify the protein for experiments, chemistry to test how it reacts in those...
Does evolution explain human nature? Three experts explored this question on Sept. 24 during a panel discussion sponsored by Yale University, Discover Magazine and the John Templeton Foundation. A video of the discussion, moderated by Corey S. Powell,...
Want to know how your Game Boy works? Or how robots learn? How about what fossils can tell us about the Earth’s history?These are some of the questions that students from across the New Haven area will explore during this fall’s Science Saturdays program...
Forty years ago, doctoral student Joel Rosenbaum asked this question: How are cilia, the tiny thread-like appendages protruding from most cells, formed from molecules in the interior of cells?The answer to this basic biology question asked by Rosenbaum,...
To hear Professor Ramamurti Shankar discuss the subject he teaches, you might expect him to be describing magnificent works of art or timeless poetry: “Beautiful,” “elegant” and “awe-inspiring” are some of the most common adjectives. It’s not until he...
