Yale School of Architecture will mark the fiftieth year of its ground-breaking publication, “Perspecta, The Yale Architectural Journal” with a symposium, “Practice and Theory: Perspecta and the Fate of Architectural Discourse,” on February 11 and 12....
Painter and printmaker Alex Katz will speak at the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., on February 9 at 6:30 p.m. Hosted by the Yale School of Art, the talk is free and open to the public. Katz is best known for his luminous, large-scale...
Four distinguished architects will hold visiting endowed professorships at Yale University’s School of Architecture during spring semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced. Each visiting professor will teach a studio course and present a public...
At the point that children utter their first words, a complex set of conceptual, social and linguistic mental capacities are at work, Yale researcher Paul Bloom reports in his new book, “How Children Learn the Meanings of Words.” “In addition to...
Yale has established a joint center for research and training in plant biology with China’s Peking University that will actively foster collaborative research among scientists at the two universities and will train the next generation of international...
Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated institution for speech research, has received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study the links between production and perception in speech....
In a landmark achievement, Yale researchers have determined the atomic structure of the ribosome’s large subunit, paving the way for more effective drugs to fight infection. The findings, published in two separate articles in this week’s issue of the...
Lise R. Heginbotham, assistant professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, has been selected as a 2000 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The award is given to encourage promising junior faculty members at medical schools...
Robert Apfel, the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University, has been named editor of Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO), a new electronic journal that publishes the results of research in acoustics, medical ultrasound,...
Yale researchers have identified how plants adjust their growth patterns to adapt to various lighting environments, paving the way for development of bigger, stronger plants that are more tolerant to pests and pathogens-bacteria and fungus. “Our study...