The Yale University Science Collaborative Hands-On Learning and Research program – known as SCHOLAR – will hold a closing ceremony followed by a reception at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 25 at Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street. The program began on...
On July 7, 70 students from New Haven’s Hill Regional Career High School will begin to study science and medicine on the Yale University campus as part of Yale’s outreach program for public school students in the city. The Yale University Science...
Using a snapshot technique, a Yale astronomer has discovered a bright new gravitational lens. The gravitational lens was observed on April 25 by Nicholas Morgan, a post-doctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, using the 3.5-...
Despite a decade of efforts to find flaws in the unification theory of active galaxies, the theory correctly explains the exotic phenomena of accreting supermassive black holes, a Yale astronomer said today. “Furthermore, the striking parallels between...
A group of astrophysicists at Yale has calculated the fate of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of a galaxy, showing that they spiral inward and coalesce quickly when a large amount of gas is present. The work presented today at the...
Four faculty members named as outstanding teachers were honored at the Yale College Senior Class Day program on Sunday, May 25, and a Yale historian and former master who died this spring was given a posthumous award for his dedication to students. The...
Tonight the Earth, Sun and Moon will all come into a common line and the moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow, an event known as a lunar eclipse, according to M. Sean O’Brien, associate research scientist in Yale’s Department of Astronomy. Lunar...
The following information was inadvertently omitted from the full release distributed on May 9, 2003. Please incorporate the addendum into your story. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish and...
Two Yale School of Medicine professors, Linda Bartoshuk, who studies taste receptors, and Arthur Horwich, M.D., who studies protein folding in the cell, are among new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to membership in the...
Four Yale University professors were recently elected Fellows to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of 2003. The newly-elected Fellows are Michel H. Devoret, professor of physics and applied physics; Donald P. Green, A. Whitney Griswold...