Best-selling author Dava Sobel will give a public talk on April 28 at Yale to kick off a special astronomy exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book Library. The lecture and exhibition are part of the Department of Astronomy’s year-long series of events to...
Priyamvada Natarajan, associate professor of astronomy and physics, and Jaime Lara, a lecturer at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, have been named 2009 fellows by the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed not only on the basis of...
Over 250 middle school students from New Haven and West Haven gathered in Davies Auditorium on May 1 to show just how calculating they can be.It was not their deviousness, but their mathematical skills, that the students demonstrated at the third annual...
The Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) has presented its first Gibbs Distinguished Staff Awards to four individuals whose “contributions and actions consistently elevate the operations, performance and morale of the school,...
Given that the ancient Greeks theorized the existence of atoms more than 2,500 years ago, it might seem that scientists must know everything about these tiny elements of matter and how they interact with one another by now. But John Tully insists there’s...
Forty years ago, doctoral student Joel Rosenbaum asked this question: How are cilia, the tiny thread-like appendages protruding from most cells, formed from molecules in the interior of cells?The answer to this basic biology question asked by Rosenbaum,...
To hear Professor Ramamurti Shankar discuss the subject he teaches, you might expect him to be describing magnificent works of art or timeless poetry: “Beautiful,” “elegant” and “awe-inspiring” are some of the most common adjectives. It’s not until he...
Does evolution explain human nature? Three experts explored this question on Sept. 24 during a panel discussion sponsored by Yale University, Discover Magazine and the John Templeton Foundation. A video of the discussion, moderated by Corey S. Powell,...
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...
Yale College senior Jocelyn Traina is studying a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. She needs to know physics to understand the lasers that she uses, biology to purify the protein for experiments, chemistry to test how it reacts in those...
