2002 News Archive: Science & Engineering

December 
12/18/02Yale "Father of Fractals" to be Awarded Prestigious Prize in Japan

 

November 
11/14/02Peking-Yale Center Receives Gift from Monsanto for Plant Biology Research Fellowships
11/08/02"Man and Beast: A Symposium in Honor of Naomi Schor (1943-2001)", November 15-16, 2002
11/01/02Yale Receives $2.1 Million HHMI Grant for Science Education

 

October 
10/30/02Yale Physicist Wins Prestigious 2003 Lars Onsager Prize From the American Physical Society
10/28/02Yale Awarded $18.1 Million for Proteomics Research
10/14/02Carol Browner, Former EPA Head, to Discuss Women in Leadership Roles

 

September 
09/26/02Yale Engineering Receives $1.2 Million W.M. Keck Foundation Grant for Quantum Information Center
09/09/02Yale Biotechnology Student Interest Group Hosts Reception on the Commercialization of Biomedical Technologies
09/05/02Celebrating the Legacy of the First African American Yale Graduate

 

August 
08/22/02Yale Students Capture Still Images of Asteroid Before its Close Flyby of Earth
08/15/02Daniel C. Esty to Receive ABA Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy
08/12/02n Memoriam: Renowned Yale Acoustical Engineer Robert E. Apfel

 

July 
07/12/02Experts Share Strategies for Responding to Needs of Children and Families

 

June 
06/13/02Yale Dean Receives Blue Planet Prize

 

May 
05/29/02Biodiversity Expert Named New Director of Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
05/21/02Yale Professor Wins Lewis S. Rosentiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science
05/17/02Yale Chemistry Professor Receives Award from Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
05/16/02Researchers Successfully Construct Artificial Atom, Which can Lead to Faster, More Advanced Quantum Computers
05/16/02Researchers Successfully Construct Artificial Atom, Which can Lead to Faster, More Advanced Quantum Computers
05/14/02Yale and Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology Announce Agreement on Aid for Mexican Graduate Students
05/10/02President Bush Bestows National Medal of Technology on First Yale Professor to Receive the Honor
05/02/02National Leaders to Speak at Yale 150th Anniversary Engineering Forum
05/02/02Yale Study Shows Thunderstorms Are Affected by Pollution

 

April 
04/30/02"Robot Showdown 2002" Will Demolish two Yale Buildings to Make Way for New Engineering Building
04/30/02National Leaders to Speak at Yale 150th Anniversary Engineering Forum
04/29/02Yale Study Reinforces Theory that Babies Can Count
04/25/02$7.1 Million NIH Grant to Biomedical Engineering will Improve Surgery for Epilepsy Patients and Boost Yale's Investment in the Sciences
04/22/02The Legacy of Agent Orange Discussed at Yale Symposium
04/16/02Yale Announces Inaugural YES Innovation Summit
04/08/02From Ladies' Girdles to Artificial Hearts: Guest Speaker at Yale Links Engineering to Medicine
04/03/02D. Allan Bromley Wins American Physical Society's 2002 Nicholson Medal
04/02/02Yale Physics Professor Receives Alexander von Humboldt Award

 

March 
03/28/02For your Daybook: Yale University and United Illuminating Company Send City Schools Robotics Team to Regional Competition
03/22/02Invading Plants Overtake and Replace Native Species, Causing Wetland Disturbance, Yale Researcher Finds
03/21/02Upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development is Topic of F&ES Talk
03/20/02Forums to Explore Links between Environment and Economic Development
03/20/02Discovery Supports Theory of a Single Species of Ancestor
03/05/02F&ES Professor Edits New Book that Ties Spirituality, Science to Environment
03/04/02Creator of "Ginger" Human Transporter to Speak at Yale Engineering Lecture Series
03/04/02Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Renews Grant for Science Mentoring Program at Yale
03/04/02Yale Professor Will Lead U.S. Delegation to International Meeting On Women in Physics

 

February 
02/22/02Two Yale Professors Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Engineering
02/20/02Increased Water Vapor in Stratosphere Possibly Caused by Tropical Biomass Burning
02/19/02Connecticut Fuel Cell Executives to Discuss Business Strategies
02/08/02Yale Chemistry Graduate Student to Attend Meeting with Nobel Laureates
02/08/02Yale Engineering Kicks off 150th Anniversary Celebration with Distinguished Lecture Series
02/06/02Yale Astronomer Explores the Final Moments of Merging Black Holes
02/04/02Yale Engineering Receives $3.5 Million Goizueta Foundation Grant
02/01/02Finland Ranks Highest in Environmental Index; U.S. Lags New Environmental Performance Study Complements Annual
Sustainability Ranking

 

January 
01/30/02Environmental Justice theme of F&ES Spring Lecture Series
01/29/02Kenyan Environmental Leader Joins F&ES Faculty as McCluskey Fellow