When NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts into space on March 6, thousands of scientists around the globe will get one step closer to finding out just how unique Earth — and possibly life — really is.The robotic probe will spend the next three-and-a-half years...
Some people love gold; others are crazy about platinum. For Ann Valentine, it’s titanium. As a young scientist, she heard about a certain type of sea squirts - soft, tubular-shaped marine creatures that attach themselves to rocks and coral - that filters...
President Richard C. Levin has appointed the distinguished evolutionary biologist Sir Peter Crane as dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The John and Marion Sullivan University Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will present the 2009 Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale University, beginning March 24.The talks, free and open to the public, will be held on March 24, 26, 31 and April 2 at 4:30 p.m. in 102 Linsly-...
Yale astronomer Sarbani Basu will be available to speak with the media about her role in NASA’s Kepler mission to search for Earth-like planets before it launches on Friday.Kepler is currently scheduled to launch at 10:48 p.m. EST on March 6. The robotic...
The World Economic Forum has designated eight alumni of the Yale World Fellows program — the University’s premier international training program — as Young Global Leaders in recognition of their professional accomplishments and their contributions to...
Rajendra K. Pachauri will lead the newly established Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI), University President Richard C. Levin has announced. Pachauri has chaired the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002 and has...
The Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave., will host “Fiesta Latina,” its seventh annual celebration of Latin American cultures on Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.This year’s celebration will feature traditional and contemporary Latin...
Yale University and the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY, have announced the establishment of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy — a collaboration designed to increase the range, depth...
Ira Glass, award-winning producer and host of the popular public radio program “This American Life,” will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and deliver the Gary G. Fryer Memorial Lecture at Yale on Tuesday, March 24.The...