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...
When NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts into space on March 6, thousands of scientists around the globe will get one step closer to finding out just how unique Earth — and possibly life — really is.The robotic probe will spend the next three-and-a-half years...
Some people love gold; others are crazy about platinum. For Ann Valentine, it’s titanium. As a young scientist, she heard about a certain type of sea squirts - soft, tubular-shaped marine creatures that attach themselves to rocks and coral - that filters...
Rajendra K. Pachauri will lead the newly established Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI), University President Richard C. Levin has announced. Pachauri has chaired the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002 and has...
The Yale University Department of Astronomy is planning a series of activities — including talks, movies, exhibitions, concerts and other events — to mark the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009, a global effort initiated by the...
The public is invited both to listen and participate as three acclaimed scientists share the passion and excitement of their research in Yale’s Science Saturdays series. The presentations will be held on April 4, 11 and 18, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in...
Thierry Emonet was trained as an astrophysicist, but this winter he found himself teaching a Yale class full of biology, computer science, engineering and math students who want to learn how to predict the behavior of living organisms.The life sciences...
Scientists dream of the day when they can create designer proteins capable of inhibiting harmful interactions, modifying substrates or guiding cellular machines to where they are needed within the body. Though that dream may be far down the road, Yale...
A young black man with the grades and the desire to attend the Yale School of Medicine in the 1800s faced seemingly insurmountable odds, but the power of relationships is what made it possible for Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed to beat those odds, said...
