Hui Cao and Holly Rushmeier were appointed to John C. Malone Professorships.
Cao, named as the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics, focuses her research on mesoscopic physics and nanophotonics. Read Cao’s announcement.
Rushmeier,...
A mid-18th-century watercolor depicts a Christian wedding ceremony in the kingdom of Kongo. A friar blesses a happy couple from underneath the veranda of an outdoor chapel. The bride and her attendants are wrapped and draped in colorful, imported textiles...
Debra Fischer and Pericles Lewis were appointed to endowed professorships.
Fischer, named as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy, is a leading exoplanet researcher. Read Fischer’s announcement.
Lewis, appointed the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of...
A group of international experts has developed a much-needed framework to significantly improve the monitoring of status and trends of species worldwide. This finding comes after a multi-year collaboration under the auspices of the Group on Earth...
Astronomers at Yale and Caltech say that ‘Oumuamua, the much-discussed interstellar space rock, is best viewed as a comet with odd properties — and not an alien probe, as has been suggested.
‘Oumuamua is the first macroscopic object of clear interstellar...