David M. Smith, the Morris K. Jessup Professor Emeritus of Silviculture at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), died on March 7 at the Whitney Center in Hamden. He was 87.After earning his Master of Forestry in 1946 from F&ES...
In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Gallilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter and other features of the sky.The discoveries Galileo made 400...
Translating basic research into new technologies that advance our health and welfare has been part of Yale’s “DNA” for centuries, and the pace of innovation at the University continues to accelerate dramatically. Visit the “Yale Innovators” website....
The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research on the obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. Saltzman and Levene will develop new...
Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,” passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old.At Yale, Klein was the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of the History of Physics and...
The Lupus Research Institute has granted a three-year, $300,000 Novel Research Award to support the work on the disease being done by Tarek Fahmy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Joseph Craft, professor of medicine and immunobiology and...
Two Yale postdoctoral scientists, Oscar R. Colegio and Kristina M. Herbert, were among 13 designated as Dam Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellows.The foundation provides funds to the nation’s most promising young cancer researchers so they can pursue...
There are an increasing number of “green” products available — from hybrid cars to organic food to sustainable buildings. The development of “green” drugs, however, is one area that has lagged behind in the move toward greater environmental sustainability...
Robert J. Schoelkopf, newly named as the inaugural William A. Norton Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, is noted for his research on quantum transport, single-electron devices and charge dynamics in nanostructures.When he won the American Physical...
The names of some Nobel Prize-winning physicists are well known, even outside the scientific community — such as Einstein, whose name has became synonymous with genius; Heisenberg, who had a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics named after him; or...
