Yale scientists report they have synthesized molecules like those that probably gave rise to the earliest life forms on Earth nearly 4 billion years ago, thus creating a biochemist’s version of “Jurassic Park” populated by exotic molecular “fossils”...
Since the first Yale commencement in 1702, certain distinguished persons selected by the Yale Corporation have received honorary degrees. The Provost announces the name of each recipient, the Senior Marshal and Corporation Marshal place a hood over the...
Two seniors received the David Everett Chantler Award during Senior Class Day exercises on Sunday, May 24. The award is given to the senior who “best exemplifies the qualities of courage, strength of character and high moral purpose.” The awards were...
Three members of the Class of 1998 who have been active in the Yale and New Haven communities were awarded the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize during Senior Class Day exercises on Sunday, May 24. Stanton Wheeler, chair of the Council of Masters Committee on...
Scientists at Yale University have developed the world’s best electrometer, a tiny transistor so fast and sensitive that it can count individual electrons as they pass through a circuit. The device could be useful in developing highly miniaturized...
Yale University anthropologist Floyd Glenn Lounsbury, an expert in American Indian languages, died Thursday, May 14, at Connecticut Hospice at the age of 84. The East Haven resident, who was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, made...
Yale University’s 297th Commencement events will be held Sunday, May 24, and Monday, May 25, on the Yale campus. For more details, see http://www.yale.edu/secretary/commencement. All reporters and photographers must have Yale media credentials during...
“Frontiers in Magnetic Resonance,” a symposium in celebration of the dedication of the W.M. Keck High Field Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at Yale University, will be held Saturday, May 30, at Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, 25 Prospect St. Experts in...
Yale University’s proposed operating budget for 1998-99, which for the second year in a row is balanced, projects spending of $1.16 billion, an increase of approximately 5 percent over the current spending plan. The major sources of revenue for the...
The following talks at Yale University May 11-17 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Harvard scholar to reassess public-nonprofit sector relations Peter Frumkin, an assistant professor of public policy in the Kennedy School of...