2007 News Archive: Science & Engineering

December 
12/17/07How Molecular Muscles Help Cells Divide
12/12/07Global Climate Change: The Impact of El Niño on Galápagos Marine Iguanas

 

November 
11/26/07New Method of Drug Delivery More Effective at Reaching Brain Tumors
11/21/07390-Million-Year-Old Scorpion Fossil — Biggest Bug Known
11/20/07Monsanto Expands Sponsorship for Peking-Yale Joint Agrobiotechnology Center
11/20/07Derek Briggs Appointed Next Director of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History
11/09/07New Technology Illuminates Protein Interactions in Living Cells
11/01/07Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars Presents Vascular Insights
11/01/07New Facility Expands Yale Capability for Fabricating Nano-Devices

 

October 
10/25/07Yale Affiliates Named AAAS Fellows for Distinction in Science
10/23/07Yale Chemist Receives NIH Young Investigator Award for Antibody Targeting
10/23/07Yale Climate Scientist Honored by Packard Foundation
10/22/07Biggest "Small" Black Hole Discovered
10/22/07Yale Physics Olympics: Team Challenges for High School Students
10/22/07Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars Begin with BioRelix: "Switching to New Forms of Antibiotics"
10/11/07Yale to Launch Online Environmental Magazine
10/09/07Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Announces Schedule for 2007-2008
10/09/07$37 Million Financing for Company Based on Macular Degeneration Research
10/08/07Nanoethics Group Will Give Public Lecture at Yale on October 10
10/04/07Majority of Americans Want Local Action on Global Warming, Says Poll
10/03/07"The Greening of Yale and Beyond" Symposium on October 18
10/03/07Noted alumnus and conservationist endows deanship of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
10/01/07Americans Consider Global Warming an Urgent Threat, Poll Finds

 

September 
09/27/07Individual Differences Caused by Shuffled Chunks of DNA in the Human Genome
09/26/07Yale Scientists Make Two Giant Steps in Advancement of Quantum Computing
09/06/07Noted Researcher, Teacher and Administrator Named Yale Dean of Engineering

 

August 
08/06/07Monster Galaxy Pileup Sighted

 

July 
07/20/07Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Fosters Student-Initiated Business Ventures

 

June 
06/18/07Yale Journal Examines the Global Impact of Cities
06/11/07Yale Chemists Funded for Research on Converting Solar Energy to Fuel
06/06/07Yale Law Grad Wins "Endangered Environmental Laws" Writing Competition

 

May 
05/31/07People Think They Reap What They Sow in Relationships
05/30/07Older Motorists Improve Driving Performance with Physical Conditioning
05/23/07Yale F&ES Graduation to Offset Gas Linked to Global Warming

 

April 
04/30/07Famous Galápagos Tortoise, Lonesome George, May Not Be Alone
04/30/07"War Between the Sexes:" The Co-evolution of Genitalia in Waterfowl
04/26/07$7.5 Million NIH Grant to Yale for Autism Center of Excellence
04/26/07"Science, Environment and the Media" Panel Discussion at Yale
04/25/07Yale Biophysicist Thomas Steitz Receives Gairdner Award for Medical Research
04/25/07Robot Competition: Yale Students Demonstrate Their Designs
04/12/07Where is the Proton? Yale Scientists Discover Footprints of Shared Protons
04/12/07MiniBooNE Findings Clarify the Behavior of Neutrinos
04/09/07The Accelerating Earth: Yale's Korenaga Receives Macelwane Medal
04/09/07Yale Dean Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
04/04/07Mayor, Yale and UI Honor Career High Robotics Team Headed To Nationals

 

March 
03/28/07Greenhouse Gas Effect Consistent Over 420 Million Years
03/27/07Nanoparticles for Delivery of Prostate Cancer Treatment
03/19/07Yale Science Saturdays: Bringing the Excitement of Science to Everyone
03/15/07Procedure Predicts Embryos Most Likely to Result in Pregnancy
03/15/07In Preeclampsia, Researchers Identify Proteins that Cause Blood Vessel Damage
03/05/07Triptolide: A Potential Drug for Polycystic Kidney Disease
03/01/07Peruvian Citadel is Site of Earliest Ancient Solar Observatory in the Americas
03/01/07"Finger Rafting": Ice Sheets That Mesh When They Meet

 

February 
02/28/07Genome Sequence Shows What Makes Bacteria Dangerous for Troops in Iraq
02/27/07Yale Researchers Named Ellison Foundation Senior Scholars in Aging
02/26/07Three Young Scientists at Yale Honored with Sloan Foundation Fellowships
02/22/07Autism Gene Identified by Yale and Global Consortium
02/15/07Debate on Amazon Road Development at Yale
02/14/07Plastics in Common Household Items May Cause Fertility Defects
02/13/07Swimming "to the Left" Gets Bacteria Upstream, and May Promote Infection
02/12/07Yale Biologists "Trick" Viruses into Extinction
02/08/07Prematurity More Accurately Predicted by Advances in Proteomic Technology
02/08/073-D Ultrasound Identifies Women at Risk for Impending Preterm Birth
02/05/07Yale Chemists Show that Nature Could have Used Different Protein Building Blocks
02/05/07Fleury to Lead Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering
02/01/07Artificial Atoms Make Microwave Photons Countable

 

January 
01/31/07Breakthrough in Nanodevice Synthesis Revolutionizes Biological Sensors
01/25/07Yale Child Study Center Receives Over $3.5 Million NIH Grant for Autism Research
01/24/07Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars Present Marinus Pharmaceuticals: "Reformulating for Successful Drug Development"
01/24/07Yale Professor Available to Discuss Environmental Issues from World Economic Forum in Davos
01/23/07Paleontologists Discover Most Primitive Primate Skeleton
01/19/07Urry Named Chair of Physics at Yale
01/18/07Yale PET Center Opens with President Levin and Pfizer CEO
01/18/07Yale's Micalizio Receives Eli Lilly Award for Organic Chemistry
01/17/07Yale PET Center Opens with President Levin and Pfizer CEO
01/17/07Long-Term Narcotics Use for Back Pain May be Ineffective and Lead to Abuse
01/11/07Guidelines for Duration of Antibiotics During Labor Refuted
01/11/07Leading Cause of U.S. Food-borne Illness Makes its Own Pathway Through Cells
01/09/07Mitochondrial Protein Maintains Appetite During Fasting