2006 News Archive: Science & Engineering

December 
12/07/06Global Warming of the Future is Projected by Ancient Carbon Emission
12/07/06Yale Panel to Discuss NAS Report on Women in Academic Science and Engineering
12/07/06Global Forests Focus of Yale Executive Education Program
12/06/06Symposium "Changes on Earth" Honors Yale Geologist Robert Berner

 

November 
11/27/06AAAS and Yale University Announce 2006 Fellows
11/22/06Yale Cell Biologist, Joel Rosenbaum, to Receive Prestigious Wilson Award
11/21/06Yale Scientist Honored with Keio University Medical Science Prize
11/20/06Lifton Honored by Two Medical Societies for Work on Hypertension
11/16/06Yale Professor T.P. Ma Recognized for Pioneering Semiconductor Work by SIA
11/16/06Different Coat Color May Not Mean Different Species for Lemurs
11/15/06Spike in Testicular Cancer is Focus of $5.5 Million NCI Grant to Yale
11/14/06Yale’s Girvin Honored for His Work on Quantum States of Matter
11/14/06DeMille Honored by American Physical Society

 

October 
10/30/06UNEP, Yale and Publishers Launch "Online Access to Research in the Environment"
10/26/06Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering Established at Yale
10/26/06Yale Journal Identifies Products that Cause Greatest Environmental Damage
10/26/06Ambassador to Beijing Olympics to Speak at Yale
10/26/06Sophie Vandebroek, Chief Technology Officer of Xerox, to Speak at Yale
10/24/06Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to Speak at Yale Dam Conference
10/23/06Yale-Universidad de Chile International Program in Astronomy Education and Research Renewed
10/17/06Interdisciplinary Grant to Yale: Creating Nanodevices for Delivery of Vaccines
10/17/06Symposium at Yale to Honor Mary Helen Goldsmith and Auxin Research
10/17/06Yale-BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminar: "454 Life Sciences — Aiming for the $10,000 Human Genome Sequence"
10/13/06Yale and NFCR Launch Research Center for Cancer Drug Design and Discovery
10/13/06The 9th Annual Yale Physics Olympics to be Held October 21
10/11/06Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Lehn to Speak at Yale on "Supramolecular Chemistry"
10/10/06Yale Environment School Professor to Receive Research Award

 

September 
09/29/06NEC's Sasaki to Deliver Distinguished Sheffield Lecture at Yale Engineering
09/25/06Yale Scientists to Hold Press Conference on Planetary Discoveries, Extraterrestrial Life
09/25/06Program to Train Corporate Directors on Climate Change
09/20/06Robert Burger Named Assistant Provost for Science and Technology
09/18/06Climate Expert to Discuss Global Warming Solutions
09/18/06Organizer of Nationwide Climate Change Initiative to Speak at Yale
09/14/06Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars Begin with TheraLogics: "Starting a Drug Development Venture Without Venture Capital"
09/14/06Science Saturdays for Kids Begins Again October 7 at Yale Featuring Women in Science
09/11/06Yale's LaVan Selected for U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
09/06/06Yale Environment School Names Visiting Scholars for Academic Year
09/06/06Two at Yale Named Outstanding New Environmental Scientists by NIEHS
09/01/06Impact of Forest Certification in Developing Countries Examined

 

August 
08/28/06Yale Geologist Mark Brandon Honored for Second Time with Kirk Bryan Award
08/14/06 Ancient Arctic Water Cycles are Red Flags to Future Global Warming

 

July 
07/27/06 Yale's Bogan Honored as Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar
07/17/06 Yale Dean Addresses Biggest Environmental Threats in New Book
07/14/06 Yale Biomedical Engineers Receive Prestigious Early Career Awards
07/11/06 Making a Face: A New and Earlier Marker of Neural Crest Development

 

June 
06/29/06 Power Plants are Major Influence in Regional Mercury Emissions
06/28/06 Yale Chemistry Student Selected to Meet Nobel Laureates in Germany
06/27/06 Yale Licenses Potential Anti-HIV Agent to Oncolys BioPharma of Japan
06/20/06 Evidence for Ultra-Energetic Particles in Jet from Black Hole
06/16/06 Yale's Rokhlin Receives Award for Revolutionizing How to Solve Tough Problems
06/15/06 Yale Entrepreneurial Society Y50K Business Plan Competition Winners Announced
06/13/06$4.8M Gift to Yale to Promote Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Forests
06/12/06 Yale Ovarian Cancer Detection Technology Licensed in China by SurExam
06/01/06 North Pole's Ancient Past Holds Lessons for Future Global Warming

 

May 
05/11/06 Global Team of Scientists Describes New Genus of African Monkey: First in 83 Years
05/02/06 $3.4M NIH Grant to Haskins Laboratories for Study of Links Between Speech Production and Perception
05/01/06 Yale Chemical Biology Symposium
05/01/06 Yale Physicist Steven Girvin Named National Academy of Sciences Fellow

 

April 
04/26/06 Connecticut Challenge Invites Residents to May 3rd Open House
04/20/06 Chu to Deliver YCC Calabresi Endowed Lecture: Drug Development at Yale: Past, Present, Future
04/19/06 James Dyson to Talk at Yale, Offer Student Design Workshop
04/17/06 YSEA Annual Dinner Honors Outstanding Yale Engineers
04/12/06 How Odors are Sensed: A Complex System Clarified
04/12/06 Targeted Drug Delivery now Possible with "pHLIP" Peptide
04/07/06 Yale Event Spotlights "Girls in Engineering"
04/05/06 Yale's Strobel Named "Million-Dollar Professor" for Science Teaching Innovation
04/05/06 Two Yale Biologists Win 2006 Gairdner Awards for Medical Research

 

March 
03/31/06Yale Startup is Success Story at Connecticut SBIR Event
03/31/06Yale Technology Spins Out Varicose Vein Device Company: Vascular Insights, LLC
03/23/06Lefties Have the Advantage in Adversarial Situations
03/17/06Yale Talk on Corporate Governance and Climate Change
03/17/06A New Focus for the Mechanism of Nerve Growth
03/17/06World Wildlife Fund President to Discuss Conservation
03/17/06MIT's Ippen to Deliver Distinguished Visitor Lecture at Yale: Ultrafast Optics for Physics, Medicine, and Engineering
03/09/06Most Human-Chimp Differences Due to Gene Regulation
03/06/06Yale Celebrates Ten Years of STARS with Support from Boehringer Ingelheim

 

February 
02/28/06Bioengineers Create Stable Networks of Blood Vessels
02/23/06Yale Early Stage Ovarian Cancer Detection Technology Licensed by LabCorp®
02/23/06Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars: “VaxInnate — Engineering more Potent Vaccines against Infectious Diseases”
02/22/06Proteins are Key to Cell Death in Heart Disease, Stroke and Degenerative Conditions
02/19/06Learning and Memory Stimulated by Gut Hormone
02/16/06Study Finds No Safe Level for Ozone
02/15/06Grant Will Promote Yale-India Environmental Ties
02/15/06Environmental Engineer Elimelech elected to National Academy of Engineering
02/13/06Yale Statistics Professor Identifies Flaws in IOC Figure Skating Scoring System

 

January 
01/31/06Sediment Layer May Forecast Greatest Earthquakes
01/26/06Cardiovascular and Immunology Research Alliance Announced by Yale and Boehringer Ingelheim
01/26/06Yale Group to Study Atmospheric "Tsunamis"
01/24/06Yale Study: Not Enough Metals in Earth to Meet Global Demand
01/23/06New Zealand Tops Environmental Scorecard at World Economic Forum in Davos
01/17/06Roger Howe Receives 2006 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service
01/12/06Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars: "HistoRx — Medical Diagnostics for 21st Century"
01/09/06Yale 2005 Ph.D. Wins Distinguished Dissertation Award
01/09/06Yale's DeMille Elected to Fellowship in American Physical Society
01/03/06Link Between Esophageal Cancer and Soft Drinks Debunked by Researchers at Yale