2005 News Archive: Science & Engineering

December 
12/22/05MicroRNA Gene that Regulates Lifespan Found by Yale Scientists
12/22/05Grants Will Give Developing World Access to Scientific Research
12/20/05Patient Outcomes Linked to Biomarker Levels with Quantitative Technology
12/16/05Switching to New Anti-Bacterial Targets: Riboswitches
12/09/05Yale Environment Dean Wins Book Award for Nonfiction
12/07/05Yale's Schoelkopf Elected to Fellowship in American Physical Society
12/06/05T-Rays: New Imaging Technology Spotlighted by American Chemical Society
12/06/05Galaxy Collisions Dominate the Local Universe
12/01/05Memorial Symposium Scheduled at Yale to Honor D. Allan Bromley
12/01/05Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminar Series Launched: Commercializing Medical Devices
12/01/05Yale Scientists Decipher "Wiring Pattern" of Cell Signaling Networks

 

November 
11/29/05Connecticut Venture Group Conference Spotlights Yale Spin-off Companies
11/23/05Yale Engineers Make Standardized Bulk Synthesis of Nanowires Possible
11/02/05Panel at Yale Will Examine Issues of Women and Health Care
11/01/05Yale Cancer Center Experts Available for Lung Cancer Awareness Month
11/01/05Agnès Vignery, Osteoporosis Researcher, Named Yale-Pfizer Visiting Faculty

 

October 
10/31/05Yale Cell Biologist, Ira Mellman, one of Three Americans Honored by EMBO
10/24/05Yale Scientists Participate in $12.3M NIH National Technology Center
10/20/05Cell Cultures Can Sort Out CJD and Scrapie Infectious Agents
10/20/05Yale Researchers Make Cell Biology Quantitative
10/18/05Yale Chemist, Mark A. Johnson, Honored by American Physical Society
10/17/05$6.5M Nanomedicine Center Includes Yale Engineer
10/14/05Yale Environment School Professor Receives Research Award
10/13/05Cool Therapy Reduces Brain Injury and Death from Oxygen Loss in Newborns
10/07/05Yale Participates in Global Human Genome Initiative

 

September 
09/29/05Myelin Suppresses Plasticity in the Mature Brain
09/29/05Streamlining Treatment of Heart Attack Patients
09/29/05Perceptions of Peer Opinion Influences Attitudes about Obesity
09/28/05Adolescents' HIV Risk Reduced with Community Intervention
09/28/05$7.5M NSF Grant Establishes a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
09/27/05Long-Sought Maya City—Site Q—Found in Guatemala
09/26/05In Memoriam: Serge Lang, Yale Mathematician and Ethicist
09/26/05How a Zebra Lost its Stripes: Rapid Evolution of the Quagga
09/15/05Science Saturdays for Kids Begins Again October 8 at Yale
09/07/05Inventive Young Engineer Selected for 2005 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
09/07/05T. P. Ma, Pioneer of Integrated Circuitry, Receives IEEE Award

 

August 
08/17/05Soft Body Fossils of Extinct "Lamp Shell" Digitally Reconstructed
08/16/05Simple Explanation for Complex Pattern of Feather Development
08/12/05A Powerful New Tool for Decoding Gene Functions in Mammals and Man
08/11/05Errors in the Measurement of Global Warming Corrected
08/04/05Trapped Genes Show How Flower Development is Controlled
08/03/05Alligator Egg Development at Prehistoric Oxygen Levels
08/03/05Mandelbrot Receives Multiple Honors in Poland and Italy
08/02/05Independent Researchers Confirm the Existence of Ivory-billed Woodpecker

 

July 
07/29/05Discovery of a New Planet in the Outer Solar System
07/28/05Birds That Sing With Their Wings to Woo
07/27/05New Taxon of Galápagos Tortoise Identified
07/25/05Special Issue of Yale Journal Analyzes Environmental Impact of Consumption
07/21/05Local High School Students Become Scientists-in-Training
07/21/05Dignitaries Celebrate Renaming of The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
07/21/05Early Estrogen Therapy to Prevent Heart Disease Focus of Yale Study
07/20/05In Memoriam: Internationally Renowned Dinosaur Expert John H. Ostrom
07/14/05Yale Hosts School of the 21st Century (21C) National Conference
07/13/05Identifying the “Signatures” of Protons in Water
07/13/05 Drinking Alcohol May Lower Risk of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
07/07/05Gerber Funds Yale Study on Dietary Calcium Insufficiency in Inner City Infants
07/01/05“Perfume” to Lure Mosquitoes and Control Malaria
07/01/05Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative Funds Yale Project to Advance Vaccine Testing

 

June 
06/29/05Changing Job Criteria to Discriminate in Employment
06/28/05Watching More TV Increases Seniors’ Negative Views of Aging
06/27/05Groundbreaking Study Helps Explain Why Preemie Brains Improve Over Time
06/23/05Nicotine Helps Schizophrenics with Attention and Memory
06/22/05Deep Sea Algae Connect Ancient Climate, Carbon Dioxide and Vegetation
06/22/05Breast Cancer Growth Regulator Holds Promise For More Targeted Treatment
06/20/05Humans Rational and Irrational Buying Behavior Is Mirrored in Monkeys
06/15/05“Supersolid” or Melted “Superfluid” Film: A Quantum Difference
06/14/05New Drug Abuse Treatment Shows Promise
06/09/05Yale Poll Reveals Overwhelming Public Desire For New Energy Policy Direction
06/09/05Yale Cancer Center Partners with “Bike Across America: The Connecticut Challenge”
06/09/05How Cell Suicide Protects Plants from Infection
06/07/05Rosa DeLauro Will Speak at Discovery to Cure Gala: Benefits Research In Women’s Reproductive Cancers
06/01/05Yale Scientists Identify Structure for RNA Quality Control

 

May 
05/27/05Clarke Prize for Water Science and Technology to Yale’s Elimelech
05/27/05Ancient DNA Confirms Single Origin of Malagasy Primates
05/26/05Yale Professor Honored for Achievements in the History of Physics
05/25/05Patients’ Favorite Music During Surgery Lessens Need for Sedative
05/24/05Children Develop Cynicism at Early Age
05/23/05Two Yale Graduate Students to Receive Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowships
05/19/05Tsunami Earthquake Triggered Earth’s Free Oscillations
05/17/05Pre–K Students Expelled at More Than Three Times the Rate of K–12 Students
05/16/05Yale Immunologist Studying Host Responses to Infection Named 2005 Searle Scholar
05/13/05Size Matters: Fish Genitalia Attractiveness vs. Predatory Escape Value
05/11/05Galvani to Receive Young Investigators’ Prize from American Society of Naturalists
05/11/05Two Symposia Examine Risks and Values of Biopharm
05/10/05International Chronic Disease Research Development Workshop May 11–20
05/09/05New Blood Test for Ovarian Cancer Screening
05/09/05Yale-IBM Parallel Computing Facility Dedicated
05/09/05Yale-IBM Parallel Computing Facility Dedicated
05/03/05Yale Scientists Elected to National Academy of Sciences

 

April 
04/29/05In Memoriam: Renowned Yale Expert on Fever and Infection, Elisha Atkins
04/29/05“Death of Environmentalism” Authors to Speak at Yale F&ES
04/29/05Yale Researchers Identify Molecule for Detecting Parasitic Infection in Humans
04/27/05U. S. Postage Stamp Series Unveiling at Yale to Celebrate Exceptional Scientists
04/22/05Yale Releases Environmental Performance Report
04/22/05Yale Scientists “See” Basis of Antibiotic Resistance
04/20/05In Memoriam: Alvin Novick, Scientist, Humanitarian and AIDS Awareness Pioneer
04/18/05Yale Professor Receives Nanotechnology Research Grant from Keck FUTURES
04/18/05Yale Professor Receives Nanotechnology Research Grant from Keck FUTURES
04/14/05Yale Appoints Deputy Provost for Science and Technology and Faculty Development
04/14/05Asthma Screenings Held at Local Automotive Dealership
04/14/05Gloria Steinem and Roslyn Milstein Meyer to be Honored By Women’s Health Research at Yale
04/12/05Obesity and Insomnia Linked by Excitability of Brain Cells
04/11/057th Annual AIDS Science Day at Yale April 22
04/08/05In Memoriam: Jack S. Greenberg, Internationally Renown Yale Physicist
04/08/05Human Kidney Protein Found that Regulates Heart Contraction and Blood Pressure
04/07/05Yale Researchers Use Laser Light to Remote Control Flies
04/05/05Leigh Page Prize Lectures on the Cosmos to be Delivered at Yale
04/05/05Key Regulator of Bone Cells Linked to Osteoporosis

 

March 
03/28/05Neural Response is Specific for Face Perception
03/28/05Chemical Present in Clear Plastics Can Impair Learning and Cause Disease
03/28/05Yale Workshop to Focus on Funding Opportunities for Biotechnology Startups
03/23/05Yale Technology Translates to Sonic Golf Training Tool
03/22/05“Governing Through Markets” Wins Sprout Award
03/22/05Pregnancy Complications Related to Low Levels of Anti–Clotting Proteins
03/18/05Bush Center Renamed Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy
03/18/05Yale Physician Receives Award for Epilepsy Research
03/17/05Yale Scientists Find MicroRNA Regulates Ras Cancer Gene
03/16/05Yale Authors Raise Concerns Regarding Regionalized Heart Attack Care
03/14/05Rhesus Monkeys Reason About Perspectives of Others in Obtaining Food
03/02/05Yale Spin-off Receives $15 Million to Commercialize M-Brace™ for Spinal Pain
03/01/05Proteins Found in Urine of Pregnant Women Could Help Diagnose Preeclampsia

 

February 
02/28/05Yale Licenses Software Technology for Geo-referencing Specimen Records
02/28/05Yale Hosts Science Saturdays: Fun Science Programs for Kids
02/23/05Yale's Margulis Wins 2005 Wolf Prize for Mathematics
02/23/05Source of Molecular Triggers in Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma Identified
02/22/05Two Environmental Leaders to Join F&ES as Visiting Fellows
02/15/05Researchers Find Missing Genes of Ancient Organism
02/15/05Yale Researchers Take the Mystery out of Grant Writing
02/14/05Architect Selected to Design New "Green" Building for School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
02/11/05In Memoriam: Science Advisor to Former Bush Administration and Former Dean of Engineering at Yale, D. Allan Bromley
02/10/05Major Gift to Support Construction of Yale Environment School Home
02/09/05Yale Researcher Receives Dan Anderson Research Award
02/04/05Fleury to Continue as Yale Engineering Dean
02/03/05Varicella Vaccine Effective on Chicken Pox; Impact on Herpes Zoster Unclear
02/01/05Pioneering Scientist Stephen Wolfram to Speak at Yale School of Architecture

 

January 
01/31/05Forum on the Future of Scholarly Publishing to be Held at Yale
01/28/05Dean Speth Named Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Fellow
01/27/05Chemical Used in Marine Paint May Damage Hearing in Whales
01/26/05Finland Tops Environmental Scorecard at World Economic Forum in Davos
01/25/05Infectious Agent Linked to Mad Cow Disease Found in Organs Other than the Brain
01/14/05Yale Scientist Receives American Meteorological Society's Meisinger Award
01/11/05Yale Chemist's Research in Science Top 10 for 2004
01/06/05Substructure Maps Show that Dark Matter Clumps in Galaxies
01/04/05Holes in Fossil Shells Show Effects of Competition and Evolution