President Peter Salovey announced the appointment of Stephen L. Darwall, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, as chair of the Department of Philosophy.Darwall’s term will extend through June 30, 2014.
Richard A. Flavell, chair of the Department of Immunobiology, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been elected the first president of the newly formed International Cytokine and Interferon Society (...
Alison Galvani, professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) at the Yale School of Public Health, and co-author Timothy C. Reluga, assistant professor of mathematics and biology at Pennsylvania State University, were selected as the winners of the 14th...
Yale chemist Mark Johnson’s contributions to the scientific understanding of water at the molecular level has earned him the American Chemical Society’s Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics.Mark Johnson, foreground, in his laboratory.Sponsored...
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the premier U.S. society for chemists, has named Yale’s Seth Herzon an Arthur C. Cope Scholar.The honor recognizes and is intended to encourage excellence in organic chemistry. It provides $5,000, a certificate, and a...
The National Cancer Institute has renewed the Yale Cancer Center’s designation as a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center. It is one of only 41 cancer centers in the country to have this designation, and the only one in Connecticut.For...
Three staff members of Yale’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) detachment were competitively selected as AFROTC Northeast Region (NER) annual award recipients. Commanders of the 37 AFROTC detachments within the region submit nominations...
Yale neurobiologist Amy Arnsten has been named a recipient of a $500,000 Pioneer Award given to researchers of exceptional creativity, the National Institutes of Health announced Sept. 30.The award was one of 78 different grants given to innovative...
Emma Ideal, a fifth-year physics graduate student, has published “Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science.”The book, co-edited with a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, includes essays by 35 women in science about their...