Robotic dogs adapted by teen students in the Bronx, New York under the guidance of Yale engineering professor Natalie Jeremijenko, will be released Saturday, April 5 at 1:30 p.m. at the Bronx River Flotilla Festival at the Cement Plant park on...
Vernon W. Hughes, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, and elementary particle physicist, died on March 25 in New Haven at age 82. Hughes’ career involved a broad spectrum of studies of physical phenomena ranging from very low to very high...
Two Yale professors are among 77 new members and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions that can be accorded an American scientist or engineer. Edward H. Kaplan, the William N...
World-renowned physicist, chemist and mathematician J. Willard Gibbs will be honored with a symposium at Yale on Friday, February 28 from 1 to 5 p.m. in Davies Auditorium,15 Prospect St. The event honors Gibbs’ most important work at the 100th...
John P. Trinkaus, professor emeritus and senior research scientist in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University, died on February 8 at age 84. Author of the classic book “Cells into Organs: The Forces that Shape the Embryo,”...
Xing-Wang Deng, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, is the recipient of the 2003 Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Deng, who is also director of the Peking-Yale Center for Plant...
The Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics, which was established last year with an investment of over $200 million from the University, has announced its first round of pilot grants to members of the faculty. These grants will provide pilot funding...
A film and lecture series on globalization and the environment that will explore the differences in the way people in the northern and southern hemispheres view conservation and the appropriate way to manage natural resources and governance will...
Yale scientists, using a computational approach, have found approximately 10,000 gene-like sequences or ‘pseudogenes’ in the human genome. Their work is reported in the current issue of Genome Research. Pseudogenes are DNA sequences that have high...
Universities are in a unique position to draft licensing and patent strategies for development of life-saving medicines and technologies that benefit low-and middle-income countries, according to an editorial by faculty and students working at the Yale...