1999 News Archive: Science & Engineering

December 
12/23/99Understanding Of Complex Electronic Materials Advanced By Yale Research of "Spin Dynamic"
12/20/99Yale Enters into Agreement with Biotech Company To Sell By-Products of Research
12/09/99Labeling Children "Learning Disabled" Often Unfair and Sometimes Exploited By Ambitious Parents
12/07/99Yale Students Develop "Gun Guard" To Keep Children and Loaded Handguns Apart

 

November 
11/30/99Yale Professor Awarded Prestigious McKnight Award
11/24/99Yale Yeast Genome Study Could Lead to Further Understanding of Diseases Like Cancer
11/23/99Yale Professor Calls for Environmental Protection Along with Globalization
11/18/99Group Treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Now Offered by Yale Psychological Services
11/18/99Yale Researchers Turn Carbon Dioxide into Gel/New Molecule Could Be Used in Extracting Oil
11/18/99Yale Research on Molecular Switches May Lead to Smaller, Cheaper Computers
11/16/99Yale Researcher Catches DNA in Act of "Scrunching"
11/16/99Yale Research on Molecular Switches May Lead to Smaller, Cheaper Computers
11/10/99Biodiversity Expert Joins Yale's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department
11/10/99On 20th Anniversary of Key Global Warming Report, Yale Symposium to Examine Future Trends
11/04/99Schools Nationwide To Test Novel Teaching Method That Redefines What It Means To Be Smart
11/04/99Yale Researchers May Have Solved Mystery About Why "Lonesome George" Refuses to Mate
11/02/99Yale Research Team First to Describe Molecular-Sized Memory -- Implications for Drastically Reducing Cost of Computer Memory
11/02/99Yale Research Team First to Describe Molecular-Sized Memory -- Implications for Drastically Reducing Cost of Computer Memory

 

October 
10/25/99Yale Scientists Offer Their Perspective on Art
10/21/99Yale Hosts Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium October 29-30, 1999
10/18/99Confirmation of Yale Professor's Theory of Supersymmetry in Nuclei Advances Knowledge of Subatomic Physics
10/06/99Yale Sponsors Physics Olympics for High School Students
10/06/99John C. Malone Discusses Communications in the new Millennium at Yale Engineering School's Sheffield Lecture

 

September 
09/24/99Two Yale Professors Awarded $2.6 Million National Science Foundation Grant for 21st Century Technology Research
09/22/99President Levin Discusses the Implications of Industrial Research and Development Strategies before Senate Panel
09/22/99Yale Astronomer Finds Universe may be Expanding Faster Than Originally Believed
09/21/99Yale Scientists Find Evidence Healthy Animals Detect and Avoid Sick Animals
09/20/99Yale Professor Awarded Grant to Study Natural Chemotherapeutic Drug
09/16/99Yale Study Offers Insight into Long-term Memories
09/15/99Boehringer Ingelheim Provides Grant to Yale to Support Diversity in Science
09/09/99Psychology Professor Recognized for Major Research Contributions
09/08/99Yale Researcher Collaborates on Study Showing Possible New Pathway for Attacking Cancer Cells

 

August 
08/26/99Yale Discovery and Research of Prehistoric Bones Leads to New Hominoid Genus and Further Understanding of Human Origins
08/25/99Yale Ribosome Research Has Implications for Possibly Improving Antibiotics to Fight Bacterial Infections

 

May 
05/12/99Environmental Sciences Facility to Foster Scholarly Collaboration and Access to Peabody Museum Collections
05/10/99Yale to Announce Plans for Environmental Sciences Facility

 

April 
04/15/99Solar Car to be Unveiled

 

March 
03/09/99Yale University Graduate Student First Recipient Of Sigma Xi-Consortium for Plasma Science Research Grant
03/08/99New Haven Students To Exhibit Science Fair Projects at Yale
03/08/99Fake Photosynthesis? Yale Chemists Develop Test-tube System That Sheds Light on How Plants Turn Water into Oxygen
03/08/99Next Talk in Plant Restoration Series at Yale University Will Focus on Case Studies from the Southern United States

 

February 
02/25/99Yale Biologists Find Key to Controlling Destructive Insect Pests By Discovering the First Odor Receptor Genes in Insects
02/25/99Next Talk in Plant Restoration Series at Yale University Will Focus on Restoring Ecosystems in the Big Apple
02/17/99Next Talk in Plant Restoration Series at Yale University Will Focus on Beneficial Fires in the Southwest
02/15/99Noted Yale University Child Psychologist William Kessen Dies
02/15/99Expert in Super Small Electronics Named to Endowed Chair
02/15/99Pioneer Researcher in Semiconductors Jerry M. Woodall Joins Engineering Faculty at Yale University
02/09/99Next Talk in Plant Restoration Series at Yale University Will Focus on Sewage and Massive Fish Kills
02/05/99Yale Mathematician Receives Prestigious Wolf Prize, An International Award from Israel
02/05/99International Symposium on Origin of Birds Honors John Ostrom; "China's Feathered Dinosaur" Topic of Peabody Museum Exhibit
02/03/99Next Talk in Plant Restoration Series at Yale University Will Focus on Wetland Restoration
02/01/99Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Professor Named World Economic Forum "Global Leader for Tomorrow"

 

January 
01/27/99Yale University Physicist Pierre Hohenberg Receives Prestigious Max Planck Prize for Theoretical Physics
01/21/99Next Talk in Plant Restoration Series at Yale University Will Focus on Urban Landscaping for the Ideal City
01/19/99Yale University Places Fourth Among American Universities In a Ranking of Scientific Research Impact
01/08/99Harvard Philosopher Stanley Cavell to be Visiting Scholar at Yale
01/06/99Yale Astronomers Study Superflares on Stars Just Like Our Sun