Michael Boyle has wanted to be an astronaut ever since he attended space camp at the age of nine. This week, the Yale senior may get one step closer to that dream when he flies aboard a specialized Boeing 727, which makes parabolic dives that allow its...
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...
From solar energy and mouse brain imaging to robotic assistants and tiny fuel cells that might one day power your iPhone, the research being done by Yale’s engineers today is on the cusp of becoming the technology of the future.For four researchers in the...
Yale senior Blair Benham-Pyle of Davenport College, who helped to identify potential new sources of drugs to treat bacterial and parasitic infections from fungal organisms found in the Amazon rainforest, has been named a 2010-2011 Luce Fellow.A major in...
There were robotic dinosaurs, a robot that danced and one that played rock-paper-scissors. But all of the robots on display at the robotics workshop on March 28 had something to teach us about ourselves.The robotics workshop — organized by the Center for...
March 22 is one day that Yale freshman Xiaosheng Mu is not likely to forget.That morning, he solved a mathematics problem that first drew his attention two years ago and had challenged him ever since. Later, he learned he was one of the top five...