Yale scientists have discovered that a single enzyme found in certain organisms is capable of providing two amino acids in protein synthesis, increasing the possibility of creating improved antibiotics. This discovery solves the last remaining mystery...
Edward R. Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, computer science and statistics and senior critic of graphic design at Yale, will give a lecture titled “Visual Explanations” on November 15 at 4 p.m. in the Yale Law School auditorium, 127 Wall...
Scholars from the United States and Europe will present evidence that the universe and human life are intelligently designed in a three-day symposium taking place Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 2-4. During the event, titled “Science and Evidence for Design in...
Yale University announced today the appointment of Paul A. Fleury as the University’s next dean of engineering, succeeding D. Allan Bromley, who stepped down on June 30. Fleury, most recently the dean of engineering at the University of New Mexico, is...
A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
Earning a doctorate in mathematics is an extraordinary achievement, especially if you are an African American woman.
The very first such person ever to earn a Ph.D. in math in the United States (Yale 1949), Evelyn Boyd Granville, will be at Yale from...
Thomas E. Golden, ‘51 B.E., ‘52 M.Eng., president of the Darien-based Thomas E. Golden Realty Co. and its affiliates, has endowed the Thomas E. Golden Professorship in Engineering at Yale University. President Richard Levin said the gift fills an...
Yale University and the University of Chile will sign an agreement November 10 to collaborate in the training of Chilean students in astronomy and astrophysics. The agreement also provides for the two institutions to have joint access to prime...
Two Yale professors with joint appointments at the Peabody Museum of Natural History have been awarded $900,000 to reform science education in New Haven public schools. The grant from the National Institutes of Health, which is the largest in the museum...
Yale University has licensed to Axon Instruments, Inc., a revolutionary technology for screening new drugs that act on cell-membrane ion channels and transporters. Ion channel activity is important for studying many medical disorders, among them migraine...