A Yale astronomer working with a team of scientists has found that the universe might be expanding somewhat faster than most current calculations. Professor Stephen Zepf said in a study published in Nature magazine Thursday (Sept. 23) that the team came...
A new study by Yale scientists has found that animals can recognize and stay away from other animals that may infect them with a disease. Professor David Skelly said that research completed in his laboratory in collaboration with Professor Joseph...
A Yale professor has been awarded a $150,000 grant to study the use of the natural product palau’amine, which was isolated from a marine sponge found in the West Pacific, as a potential chemotherapeutic agent. Chemistry Professor David Austin said the...
Jonathan E. Soderstrom has been named director of Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research. Soderstrom succeeds Gregory E. Gardiner, who has been director of OCR since February 1996. Gardiner is leaving to pursue other interests. At the same time, Robert...
New findings by Yale researchers bring us one step closer to understanding why we have fleeting memories of some events, yet remember other incidents for a lifetime. In a study published Friday in the journal Science, Professor Thomas Carew and co-...
Yale today received a $100,000 grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to support STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) – a program to promote academic success in the sciences among women, minorities and the physically...
A Yale research team has found that repeated use of cocaine causes changes in the brain that persist long after the drug is no longer used. “There have been no adequately effective treatments for cocaine addiction because we know very little about...
Four Yale students have been named winners in the BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Program. The competition, which drew entries from more than 200 colleges and universities across the country, is sponsored by the BFGoodrich Co. and administered by the...
Six new laboratories for spinal cord research by Yale scientists will be dedicated Sept. 27 at the Neuroscience and Regeneration Research Center at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Haven. The Phil N. Allen and Mayreta V. Allen Laboratories...
Yale University unveiled a modified $38 million plan today to renovate, restore, and improve its historic Divinity School, enabling the School to best fulfill its academic mission. The plan, by architects Robert Kliment and Frances Halsband, is...