Yale engineers have for the first time observed and tracked E. coli bacteria moving in a liquid medium with a motion similar to that of a kayak paddle.Scientists have long theorized that the cigar-shaped cell bodies of E. coli and other microorganisms...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has named James Levinsohn to be the first director of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, effective February 1, 2010.The Jackson Institute will offer courses and core teaching programs in international...
Four alumni of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will be awarded Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals, the school’s highest honor, on October 6 at an event hosted by University President Richard C. Levin, Graduate School Dean Jon Butler and Carlos Riobó...
Two internationally renowned experts on evolution have been hired to anchor the new Microbial Diversity Institute at Yale’s West Campus.Nancy A. Moran, Regents’ Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Howard Ochman, Regents’ Professor of...
Diarrhea-related diseases claim the lives of more than 1.5 million children each year, almost all in developing countries. Poor sanitary conditions, including contaminated water and food, are the major source of the bacteria and viruses that cause severe...
The Gilder-Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale is pleased to announce that Annette Gordon-Reed has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in...
The Yale University Police Department will once again host its Citizen’s Police Academy beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 13.The program is designed to provide community members with an increased understanding and awareness of police operations and...
Want to know how your Game Boy works? Or how robots learn? How about what fossils can tell us about the Earth’s history?These are some of the questions that students from across the New Haven area will explore during this fall’s Science Saturdays program...
Seyla Benhabib awarded the Ernst Bloch PrizeSeyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, will be awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on Sept. 25.The prize, one of Germany’s most distinguished...
Fellows win national awards for work in pediatricsThree fellows in the Department of Pediatrics recently won national research awards at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies.Dr. Sachin Desai, a fellow in pediatric infectious disease, won...