You don’t have to spend years training to be an astronaut, or even pay a million dollars as a space tourist, to tour the cosmos. Now members of the Yale community, New Haven school groups and the general public can by whisked off to space without even...
Two current Yale College seniors and two Class of 2007 graduates were among the 37 American recipients of Gates Scholarships to pursue graduate study at the University of Cambridge next fall.Rachel Boyd ‘09, William Schmidt ‘09, Vadim Tsipenyuk ‘07 and...
As an astronomy graduate student at Oxford in 2007, Kevin Schawinski faced a rather sizable problem: He needed to sort through 50,000 images of galaxies taken by a robotic telescope one by one, and classify each galaxy according to its shape. After...
Hong Tang, assistant professor of electrical and mechanical engineering, has received a CAREER award from the Faculty Early Career Development Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).The NSF CAREER Award is one of the highest honors for young...
Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.A year ago, the last place that three Yale graduate students would have expected to find themselves was in Chile, hunting...
A three-judge panel has named Allen Grossman the 2009 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.The Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library to an...
Yale’s astronomers will be spending a lot more time in Hawaii from now on, but don’t expect them to come back with suntans and macadamia nuts. Instead, they’ll be spending long nights probing far into the distant reaches of the universe, thanks to a $12...
Shashi Tharoor, chairman of Dubai-based international investments company Afras Ventures and former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, will be the speaker at the 16th Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on March 4.His talk is titled “India...
Yale Divinity School is expanding its international student exchange program, establishing ties to two theological schools in Asia to complement ongoing programs in Germany and England.In an open letter to students, Yale Divinity School Dean Harold...
When it comes to getting to work, it’s arriving on time, not the journey itself, that usually matters most to employees, but Holly Parker, director of Yale’s Transportation Options program, is working to get the University’s carbon-consuming commuters to...