Lisa D. Pfefferle, newly named as the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Engineering, is an expert in the areas of combustion kinetics and chemical reaction engineering.Pfefferle’s concentration is in catalytically stabilized hydrocarbon fuels and analyzing...
PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, will fund a graduate fellowship in the M.D.-Ph.D. Program at Yale School of Medicine to support research related to nutritional science.PepsiCo has also opened a long-term research...
Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, has been chosen to present the inaugural Chemical Biology Lectureship by the American Chemical Society (ACS).The lectureship, which is jointly sponsored by the ACS Division of...
“La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler, a lustful Viennese waltz, of sorts, will be presented Dec. 12-17 at the Yale School of Drama’s University Theatre, 222 York St.The show is the thesis production of third-year M.F.A. student Jesse Jou.Schnitzler’s work...
New Haven has many fine shops and boutiques offering unique gifts for holiday shoppers. Some of these — like Yale’s museum gift shops — are right here on campus, while others are affiliated with the University.The latter include the Yale Bookstore (a.k.a...
Jack Harris, an associate professor of physics, has received one of this year’s Young Faculty Awards (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 “rising stars” across the country to receive the accolade.DARPA, which...
Watercolor abstracts by Dr. Frank Ninivaggi will be on display through the month of December at the Cushing Medical Library in Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., as part of the “Physician as Artist” series.Ninivaggi, assistant clinical professor...
President Richard C. Levin has established a committee to advise him in the search for a new university librarian. Alice Prochaska, who has served in that post since 2001, will go on leave in January, prior to becoming the principal of Somerville College...
Two Yale College seniors and a third-year law student will be headed to the United Kingdom next year as recipients of prestigious Marshall scholarships.The students are James Luccarelli ‘10, Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith ‘10 and Nabiha Syed.The Marshall...
Dr. Murat Gunel, the newly named Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery, specializes in the treatment of brain aneurysms and vascular malformations and is an expert on the molecular genetics of intracranial aneurysms and cavernous malformations.The...