In this week’s issue of Nature, a Yale mathematician presents models showing that the most recent person who was a direct ancestor of all humans currently alive may have lived just a few thousand years ago. “While we may not all be ‘brothers,’ the...
In a whole new approach to asthma research, scientists at Yale have discovered that a molecule called Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) likely plays an important role in the development of the disease and raises the possibility of new asthma...
The National Cancer Institute recently awarded a five-year, $7.5 million program project grant to investigators at the Yale School of Medicine to continue studies on the role of viruses and mutant cellular proteins in tumorigenic transformation of cells...
The Northeastern section of the American Chemical Society recently announced Professor Martin Saunders, of the Department of Chemistry at Yale University as the 2005 recipient of the James Flack Norris Award for physical organic chemistry. The award,...
Tso-Ping (T.P.) Ma, Raymond John Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University will receive the 2005 Andrew S. Grove Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his...
Two Yale engineers are among 86 of the nation’s brightest young engineers selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 10th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium from September 9-11. Ainissa Ramirez and Erin Lavik will...
A report in the journal Nature describes the first experiment in which a single photon is coherently coupled to a single superconducting qubit (quantum bit or “artificial atom”). This represents a new paradigm in which quantum optics experiments can...
Mathematician Walter Feit, a Yale professor for 40 years, died at age 73 after a long illness on July 29, 2004 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, CT. Professor Feit was a pure mathematician whose contributions provided fundamental infrastructure...
Research led by Anna Marie Pyle, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University reveals how a protein from Hepatitis C (HCV) unwinds RNA, potentially allowing it be copied. The work published in the journal Nature focuses on an...
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will begin constructing a new home bearing the name of Yale College alumnus Richard Kroon, who recently made a major gift to the school. Kroon, a New Jersey resident who retired in 2001 after 32...