Erin Lavik Erin Lavik, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Yale, was honored recently by the Connecticut Technology Council as one of their 2008 Women of Innovation.The annual event, now in...
Steven Koonin, head scientist for the global energy company BP, will speak at Yale University on February 18 and 19 as the Benjamin and Barbara Zucker Environmental Fellow for Spring 2008.Koonin will be guest speaker at a Master’s Tea on February 18 at 4...
Midwestern farming has introduced the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers into the Mississippi River over the past 50 years and is adding more carbon dioxide annually into its waters, according to a study published in Nature by researchers at Yale and...
Davos, Switzerland — Switzerland tops the global list of countries ranked by environmental performance, according to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University.The...
The Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars series will begin its 2008 schedule with a program on the New Haven start-up company Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on Tuesday, February 12 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Anlyan Center Auditorium, Yale School of Medicine...
Derek Briggs Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal’s soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group...
The Yale Peabody Museum will present its distinguished Verrill Medal to Alison Richard, vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge, at a ceremony at Yale’s Luce Hall on Wednesday, April 23.Richard was the director of the Peabody from 1991 to1994 and...
Joel Rosenbaum, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale, has received an honorary degree in molecular biology from the University of Siena, Italy for his basic cell biological studies on flagella assembly in a green alga, which...
Brian Scassellati, associate professor of computer science at Yale, has received the Human-Robot Interaction Research Award from Microsoft to design programs that will allow robots to “understand” the prosody — or rhythms, patterns and intonation — of...
Yale University scientists reported Sunday that they may have resolved a controversial glitch in models of global warming: A key part of the atmosphere didn’t seem to be warming as expected. The findings were reported online Sunday in the journal Nature...