How many arms does a spiral galaxy have? Can you spot a galaxy with a central “peanut” bulge? Or how about a galactic merger? Answers to these and other strange questions will be provided by ordinary web users in an online citizen science project called...
You don’t have to spend years training to be an astronaut, or even pay a million dollars as a space tourist, to tour the cosmos. Now members of the Yale community, New Haven school groups and the general public can by whisked off to space without even...
Two current Yale College seniors and two Class of 2007 graduates were among the 37 American recipients of Gates Scholarships to pursue graduate study at the University of Cambridge next fall.Rachel Boyd ‘09, William Schmidt ‘09, Vadim Tsipenyuk ‘07 and...
As an astronomy graduate student at Oxford in 2007, Kevin Schawinski faced a rather sizable problem: He needed to sort through 50,000 images of galaxies taken by a robotic telescope one by one, and classify each galaxy according to its shape. After...
Hong Tang, assistant professor of electrical and mechanical engineering, has received a CAREER award from the Faculty Early Career Development Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).The NSF CAREER Award is one of the highest honors for young...
Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.A year ago, the last place that three Yale graduate students would have expected to find themselves was in Chile, hunting...
In an effort to accelerate improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare in developing nations around the world, Yale University has launched the Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI). The mission of the GHLI is to strengthen the...
Elderly women who suffer a first “mini-stroke” are less likely than men of the same age to be readmitted to a hospital, according to a study led by the Yale School of Public Health. The paper appears in the online version of Stroke, the journal of the...
A three-judge panel has named Allen Grossman the 2009 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.The Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library to an...
Yale’s astronomers will be spending a lot more time in Hawaii from now on, but don’t expect them to come back with suntans and macadamia nuts. Instead, they’ll be spending long nights probing far into the distant reaches of the universe, thanks to a $12...