A new minor planet measuring about 400 miles in diameter and located between Neptune and Pluto in the outer rim of the solar system has been found by Yale astronomers. Officially named 2000 EB173, the planet was discovered using a powerful telescope...
A $2.1 million grant has been awarded to Yale and Penn State researchers to investigate what is causing deformities in amphibians, such as frogs found with extra hind limbs. The five-year study will be concentrated in the Northeast and will attempt to...
The third annual Yale Physics Olympics Competition, which is designed to stimulate interest in physics among high school students and to support physics teachers, will be held October 21. About 200 high school seniors from Connecticut and New York will...
Yale University announced today that the Yale College Class of 1954 is providing a $70 million gift to support new science buildings and other major University priorities, marking the largest class gift in Yale’s 300-year history. The gift is the...
The Yale Physics Department’s Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory will host the 33rd meeting of the Symposium of Northeastern Accelerator Personnel October 9-12. The objective of the symposium is to assemble a wide spectrum of engineers, physicists and...
Hundreds of alumnae from around the globe will converge on Yale University Oct. 5-8 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). F&ES is the oldest, continuous forestry school in the country....
Dean James Gustave Speth of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has been named to a new international committee on sustainable development. Speth was invited to join the Coordinating Committee for the Transition to Sustainability by...
Yale University will co-sponsor a “boot camp” to instruct new bioscience companies on growth strategies at a day-long event October 16. “Having a great idea is not enough,” said Alfred “Buz” Brown, director of the medical office of Yale University’s...
For as long as she can remember, Emily Cherlin has been afraid to go camping, avoided basements, and even hesitated to open a window for fear of meeting a spider. “It was more the look of them than what I thought they might do to me,” says Cherlin, a...
College-age women are particularly sensitive to perceived criticism about eating and weight from their mothers in forming their own eating and weight attitudes and behaviors, a study by Yale researchers shows. Male college students, on the other hand,...