Chemistry professor Robert Crabtree has won the 2010 Kosolapoff Award, presented by Auburn University to outstanding chemists and biochemists for landmark contributions in these fields.“We at Auburn have long admired Professor Crabtree’s work and are...
Beating out some 14,000 students across the United States, two Yale students have advanced to the final round of the Microsoft Corporation-hosted Imagine Cup competition.Currently in its eighth year, the competition is dedicated to encouraging young...
From solar energy and mouse brain imaging to robotic assistants and tiny fuel cells that might one day power your iPhone, the research being done by Yale’s engineers today is on the cusp of becoming the technology of the future.For four researchers in the...
Yale senior Blair Benham-Pyle of Davenport College, who helped to identify potential new sources of drugs to treat bacterial and parasitic infections from fungal organisms found in the Amazon rainforest, has been named a 2010-2011 Luce Fellow.A major in...
There were robotic dinosaurs, a robot that danced and one that played rock-paper-scissors. But all of the robots on display at the robotics workshop on March 28 had something to teach us about ourselves.The robotics workshop — organized by the Center for...
March 22 is one day that Yale freshman Xiaosheng Mu is not likely to forget.That morning, he solved a mathematics problem that first drew his attention two years ago and had challenged him ever since. Later, he learned he was one of the top five...
Two Yale faculty, neuroscientist Daniel A. Colón-Ramos and astronomer Marla Geha, have won Sloan Foundation Fellowships in recognition of their “outstanding promise.”The prestigious awards, given annually to 118 early-career researchers, recognize “...
“Dinosaur Train” host and paleontologist Scott Sampson will examine “Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent” in a talk at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History on Thursday, March 4.Sampson will speak at 5:30 p.m. at the museum, located at 170 Whitney Ave....
Michael Waldholz, managing editor of global health, science and environment at Bloomberg News, will be the guest at a Pierson College master’s tea on Wednesday, Feb. 24. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. in the...
Larry Stewart, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, will deliver the opening Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on Wednesday, Feb. 24.Stewart’s talk, titled “Experiment and Response: Discovering the Philosophic Audience in...