Student engineers who have been working for the past five years on a project to bring clean water to a community in Cameroon, Africa, have been honored for their dedication to their cause.The Yale student chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA received...
David Evans, professor of geology and geophysics, has been named a Faculty Finalist in the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2010 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.The awards, which are currently in their fourth year, recognize “highly innovative,...
Sandwiched between the liquid iron outer core and the thin rocky crust we live on, the Earth’s mantle is more than 1,800 miles thick, and comprises more than three-quarters of the planet’s volume and nearly two-thirds of its mass. Yet surprisingly,...
For some time after Yale University purchased the 136 acres of office buildings, streams and woodlands that comprised the former Bayer Pharmaceutical complex in 2007, the primary occupants of West Campus were turkey, geese, deer and coyotes.That is no...
Two Yale graduate students have been chosen as the first recipients of a new fellowship honoring the memory of graduate student Annie Le.The fellowship, established with an initial gift from Yale of $100,000, will benefit doctoral students in the...
Yale astronomer C. Megan Urry has won the annual Women in Space Science Award, given by the Women’s Board of the Adler Planetarium to “an outstanding woman in space science who exemplifies the characteristics that lead to success academically and in the...
Rong Fan arrived at Yale a mere five months ago, but his plans to revolutionize diagnostic testing are already gaining attention. The assistant professor of biomedical engineering has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant to improve the way...
Mitchell D. Smooke, the Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, has been named a 2010 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).SIAM is an international community of over 13,000 individual members,...
Chemistry professor Robert Crabtree has won the 2010 Kosolapoff Award, presented by Auburn University to outstanding chemists and biochemists for landmark contributions in these fields.“We at Auburn have long admired Professor Crabtree’s work and are...
Beating out some 14,000 students across the United States, two Yale students have advanced to the final round of the Microsoft Corporation-hosted Imagine Cup competition.Currently in its eighth year, the competition is dedicated to encouraging young...
