Vandana Shiva, director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in New Delhi, India, will discuss “Does Globalization Help or Hurt?” on Thursday, Feb. 1, at 5 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall at Yale. The lecture is free and...
Contrary to common beliefs, societal collapses of the past have been caused by sudden climate change, not only by social, political and economic factors, Yale anthropologist Harvey Weiss reports in a new study published in this week’s Science. “Our...
Two Yale astronomers have discovered that, contrary to previous beliefs, the area around the Milky Way contains the remains of small galaxies that were torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity. “It was once thought that the Milky Way’s halo had a smooth...
Finding Could Help Pinpoint Time of Planet Formations New Haven, Conn. – A team of astronomers from Yale, Venezuela and the Smithsonian Institution have identified 168 young stars, about half the mass of the sun, in a region called the Orion star forming...
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has appointed David DeFusco as its director of communications and external relations. DeFusco is responsible for media relations, publications, publicizing lecture series and special events, and...
The United States ranks 11th in environmental sustainability, according to a 122-nation study based on a model that was developed at Yale University. The study, sponsored by the World Economic Forum, was released January 25 at the forum’s annual meeting...
Five national and international leaders in environmental management have joined the faculty of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The new faculty are Yolanda Kakabadse, president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN); James Lyons,...
William Nordhaus, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics at Yale and former member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, will discuss “The Problem of Global Public Goods” on February 21 at 6 p.m. at the Yale Club of New York City. The...
Yale Psychology Professor Karen Wynn, who studies infants’ ability to recognize and reason about numbers, has been awarded the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The award, which includes $50,000 in research funding, is...
The discovery in Mongolia of the fossil of a new bird, Apsaravis ukhaana, that lived about 80 million years ago, sheds new light on the evolution of birds. The nearly complete specimen of the small pigeon-sized bird was found at the locality Ukhaa...