Awards & Honors archived.De La Cruz wins grant to study secrets of cellsEnrique M. De La Cruz, associate professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has been awarded a program grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) for his...
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored four Yale faculty and 15 alumni with election as new members.They are among the 212 leaders in the sciences, humanities and the arts, business, public affairs and the non-profit sector who this year...
In a room in the basement of Hillhouse Avenue, 18 Yale students have spent the past 12 weeks transforming gears, wing nuts and sprockets into energy solutions for farmers working thousands of miles away in sub-Saharan Africa.The class, called “Appropriate...
On a recent Saturday in April, mixed teams of alumni and current Yale Polo players faced off during the annual Yale Polo Alumni Day game.Established in 1903, the Yale Polo Team is the oldest continuously run intercollegiate polo program in the nation.Hear...
The woman that inspired the drives was gone, but her spirit clearly remained as Yale Athletics hosted its annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registry Drive Thursday at Commons. Mandi, the women’s ice hockey center whose battle with cancer helped draw...
Legal historian Charles M. Gray, who taught at Yale briefly during the 1970s and is the husband of former Yale president Hanna Holborn Gray, died on April 22 after a long illness.An expert on British legal history, Charles Gray was a longtime faculty...
The School of Management (SOM) community recently joined together for a fundraising effort to aid the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.The “1000 Cranes Project” — based on a Japanese legend promising that anyone who folds a thousand cranes...
Six teachers who excel at inspiring undergraduate students in their classrooms will be awarded Yale College teaching prizes on Monday, April 25.Yale College Dean Mary Miller will host a reception in honor of the teachers that day at 5:30 p.m. in the...
While the Tea Party movement, a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, anti-union fervor and the expansion of tax cuts for corporations and the affluent might appear to spell trouble for progressive politics, the future for “the Left”...
Two Yale professors — Christine Jacobs-Wagner and Jo Handelsman — will receive prestigious awards next month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, the largest life science organization in the world.Jacobs-Wagner, a professor in...