By changing the optical properties of the semiconductor material gallium arsenide (GaAs), a Yale researcher has found a faster and cheaper way to create crystals for optical emitters, which have potential uses in fiber optic cables to carry television...
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) has collaborated with the Connecticut State Board of Education and the Embassy of France to open a new Resource Center at Yale for the Teaching of French. The Center is a part of YCIAS...
Conservationist and paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey will speak on the plight of Africa’s wildlife on November 3, when he visits Yale University as a Chubb Fellow. His talk, “Wildlife Wars: The Fight to Save Africa’s National Treasures,” will begin at...
Johnson & Johnson has given $525,000 to the Physician Scholars in International Health Program at Yale University School of Medicine to foster physician involvement in foreign countries. This is Johnson & Johnson’s third grant to the program in...
In the release “Yale Receives $4.9 Million Grant for International Genome Study” that was sent this morning, please add the following sentence at the beginning of the 6th paragragh, beginning NHGRI Director …. The National Human Genome Research...
An analysis of the smallest microbial genome ever sequenced supports theories that life may have originated in a hot and fiery primeval earth, according to Yale researchers and collaborators. N. equitans defines a new kingdom, Nanoarchaeota in the...
Yale researchers are taking part in an ambitious, $36 million, three-year pilot study that will test efficient, high-throughput methods for identifying, locating and fully analyzing all of the functional elements contained in a set of DNA target regions...
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Yale historian Frank M. Turner as the director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. “Professor Turner brings to the Beinecke directorship more than 30 years of experience in the...
Peter Schwartz, an internationally renowned futurist and co-founder and chair of the Global Business Network, will discuss “Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence” on Friday, October 24, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall,...
Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and former United States Senator from Colorado, will discuss “Oil Dependence, Foreign Policy and the Need for a New Energy Policy” on Thursday, October 23, at 4 p.m. in the Yale Law School...