Yale University’s Christine Jacobs-Wagner has been designated an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a non-profit medical research organization that is one of the nation’s largest philanthropies.Jacobs-Wagner, the Maxine...
Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in...
Starting at about the fourth grade, schoolchildren have their interest in science slowly driven from them, says Scott Strobel, chair of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale. They are asked to memorize thousands of facts that...
Nine faculty members and a Yale trustee will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. They are among 190 new fellows and...
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, has been named to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. He joins other notable inductees in the Class of 2008 such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese, New...
Today Pasko Rakic, professor of neurobiology and neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, was named one of the inaugural recipients of the Kavli Prizes, for his key role in changing our understanding of the cerebral cortex, the seat of human...
Five seniors and one team were honored by the Yale Athletics Department with awards at the annual Senior Varsity Dinner Wednesday night in Commons Football player Alan Kimball (Olathe, Kan.), cross country/track athlete Jessie MacLeod (Guilford, Conn.)...
This year’s prizes were awarded to the following students. THE ROBERT E. LEWIS PRIZE is given to seniors who best demonstrate the highest ideals of athletics and intramural competition. Angel EnriquezBetny Anne TownsendColleen PurcellJessica Norebaert...
The following honorary degrees were presented at this years commencement. John Lawrence Ashbery You are one of the truly original poets of your time. In poem after poem, you keep your exhilarated readers off balance, capturing the spontaneous wonder of...
This year’s prizes were awarded to the following students. Angel Enriquez, Silliman College – Lewis Prize Jessica Notabaert, Timothy Dwight College – Lewis Prize Colleen Purcell, Morse College – Lewis Prize Betny Anne Townsend, Ezra Stiles College – Lewis...