2000 News Archive: Science & Engineering

December 
12/20/00Children Learn the Meanings of Words Through a Combination of Sophisticated Cognitive Abilities, Yale Researcher Finds
12/01/00Thomas Golden Endows Engineering Chair at Yale

 

November 
11/09/00Yale and Chile Sign Agreement for Joint Education of Astronomers and Shared Telescope Observational Time
11/07/00Peabody Museum Awarded $900,000 Federal Grant to Support Partnership with New Haven Schools
11/06/00Yale Establishes Plant Biology Research Center with Peking University
11/01/00Pioneer in Information Design to Speak at Yale

 

October 
10/31/00Yale Symposium Will Explore New Evidence Supporting The Theory of Intelligent Design
10/30/00Yale Licenses Technology for Screening Pharmaceuticals That Act on Ion Channels and Transporters -- Ion Channel Activity Important in Migraine, Epilepsy, Irregular Heartbeat and Cystic Fibrosis
10/25/00Yale Astronomers Find New Minor Planet Between Neptune And Pluto
10/24/00Haskins Labs Wins $2.9 Million Grant to Study Mechanics of Speaking and Listening
10/23/00$2.1 Million Grant Awarded to Yale and Penn State Researchers to Study Deformities in Frogs
10/19/00Yale Holds Third Annual Physics Competition
10/18/00Class of '54 Gives $70 Million Gift To Support Science, Other Yale Priorities--"54/50" Fund Reflects Innovative Financing, Growing from Initial $380,000 in the Early 1980s
10/06/00Yale Hosts Accelerator Symposium Oct. 9-12
10/05/00Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Marks 100th Anniversary with Centennial Reunion
10/04/00Dean Speth Named to International Committee On Sustainable Development

 

September 
09/19/00Yale Co-Sponsors "Boot Camp" for New BioScience Companies

 

August 
08/24/00Yale Studies and Treats Sufferers of Spider Phobia
08/10/00YALE RESEARCHERS SOLVE STRUCTURE OF THE RIBOSOME -- Groundbreaking Achievement 'Like Climbing Mount Everest'
08/08/00Children May Look to Parents for Eating and Weight Loss Attitudes and Behaviors, A Study at Yale Shows
08/02/00Yale Professor Wins Pew Charitable Trusts Award
08/01/00Yale Engineering Professor Named Editor of New Online Electronic Journal

 

July 
07/20/00"Mental Atlas Approach" Not Accurate Gauge of Intelligence, Says Yale Psychology Professor -- Bush, Gore and Bradley Aptitudes Contradict Finding
07/18/00Memorial Service to be Held For Yale Engineering Professor
07/05/00Yale Appoints Paul A. Fleury as Dean of Engineering
Successor to D. Allan Bromley, Fleury to Build Upon Renewal of Yale Engineering

 

June 
06/01/00Soda and Snack Tax Could Raise $1.8 Billion For Health Promotion Programs, Yale Study Shows

 

May 
05/24/00Yale Study Pinpoints How Plants Adjust to and Grow in Various Lighting Conditions
05/15/00Yale Chemist Receives Outstanding Teacher Award

 

April 
04/24/00Nation's Top Environmental Protection Official to Speak at Yale
04/18/00Yale Professor Receives Prestigious Waterman Award from The National Science Foundation
04/12/00Yale Engineering Students Build Machines to Rescue Mythological Figure

 

March 
03/09/00Yale Researcher Makes Groundbreaking Discovery of Taste Receptor Genes in Insects
03/06/00Yale Researchers Attribute Ancient High Levels of Oxygen in the Atmosphere to the Rise of Trees and Large Plants
03/06/00Yale Researchers Attribute Ancient High Levels of Oxygen in the Atmosphere to the Rise of Trees and Large Plants

 

February 
02/24/00Psychological Test of Unconscious Candidate Preference Shows Surprising Results
02/17/00Yale Researcher Identifies Structure of Molecular "Zip Code" Reader
02/17/00Rocket-science Mathematician/Alumna to Speak at Yale
02/04/00Three Yale Engineering Professors Awarded Share of $25 Million NASA Grant
02/04/00Yale Scientists Solve Final Mystery of Protein Synthesis in "Extremophiles"
02/03/00Yale Researcher Identifies New "Ras" Protein/Ras Proteins Are a Factor in Nearly 30 Percent of Human Tumors
02/01/00Yale Mathematician Awarded Presidential Medal of Science

 

January 
01/28/00Career High School's Electron Microscope Focuses on the Future
01/26/00Yale Researcher Discovers Alternative Method of Folding Protein
01/19/00Gift of John Malone to Support Yale's New Engineering Building
01/17/00Yale Astronomer Explains January 20 Eclipse
01/13/00Noted Yale Structural Biologist Paul Sigler Dies
01/12/00Yale Researcher Finds Number of "Near-Earth Asteroids" Are Fewer than Believed
01/12/00Yale Researcher Identifies Stars That Give Clues to the Milky Way