2008 News Archive: Science & Engineering

December 
12/19/08Yale Psychologist Honored for Early Career Research
12/18/08Yale Researchers Track How Biology's Army Is Mobilized
12/12/08Scientist Honored for Pioneering Research on Ocean Optics
12/12/08New Planetarium at Yale Opens with Weekly Shows and Classes
12/10/08A Sentiment for All Seasons: We Offer Help More Often Than Ask for It
12/07/08Nanotechnology “Culture War” Possible, Says Yale Study
12/05/08Students Learn How To ‘Kiss Frogs’ and Take Risks in Morrell’s Class
12/01/08Tony Blair Faith Foundation Malaria Relief Concert Organized by Yale Grad Student

 

November 
11/26/08“The Photon Force is with us”: Harnessing Light to Drive Nanomachines
11/26/08Yale Researchers Enlist a New Recruit in Battle of the Bulge
11/21/08Biomedical Detectives
11/21/08Yale Scientist Jack Harris Named Among Discover’s ‘20 Under 40’
11/17/08Yale’s Reed Honored for Outstanding Nanotechnology Research
11/14/08Paul Anastas Is the First Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor
11/14/08Yale Gets Grant for Project To Create Software Tools for Neuroscientists
11/14/08Researcher Wins a Prestigious Fellowship for Women Scientists
11/10/08MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale-CURE BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Presents “Unexpected Outcomes:” A Panel on Navigating Scientific and Management Landmines
11/07/08Yale Professor T.P. Ma Awarded the Connecticut Medal of Technology
11/07/08Student Working To Forge Better Metal Recycling Practices
11/06/08Revised Theory Suggests Carbon Dioxide Levels Already in Danger Zone
11/06/08Yale Launches New Integrated Ph.D. Program in Physical and Engineering Biology
11/06/08Award-Winning New York Times Environment Reporter to Speak at Yale
11/06/08 Political Violence May Predict Intimate Partner Abuse Among Immigrants
11/03/08Yale Receives Major Gift from Dr. Raymond and Beverly Sackler to Launch New Institute for Biological, Physical & Engineering Sciences

 

October 
10/28/08Elimelech Honored for Contributions to Chemical and Environmental Engineering
10/24/08Bruce Carmichael Named Deputy Dean at School of Engineering & Applied Science
10/24/08George Veronis Is Honored for His 50-Year Educational Commitment
10/24/08Jun Korenaga Is Recognized for Breakthrough Research on Plate Tectonics
10/24/08Youngsters Flex Brains, Not Brawn, at Physics Olympics
10/20/08‘Dry Cleaning Effect’ Explained by Forgetful Yale Researcher
10/14/08Yale’s Horwich Wins Horwitz Prize
10/10/08Yale Scientists Inducted Into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
10/10/08Sensitive Nanowire Disease Detectors Made by Yale Scientists
10/10/08Yale Alumnus Named Associate Director for Research Facilities at YINQE
10/09/08Researchers Design Artificial Cells That Could Power Medical Implants
10/07/08Stars Stop Forming When Big Galaxies Collide
10/03/08Yale-CURE BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Presents Humacyte: “Creating Scaffolds for Building Human Tissues”
10/03/08Mark Hochstrasser Has New Post as the Eugene Higgins Professor
10/03/08Scott Strobel Is Designated as the Henry Ford II Professor
10/03/08In ‘Rare’ Honor, Two Yale Physicists Earn Top Prizes From the APS
10/02/08Reproducing Early and Often is the Key to Rapid Evolution in Plants
10/02/08Yale Chemist Receives Top Honors from Harvard

 

September 
09/26/08Student Scientists Board NASA Aircraft for Weightless Experiment
09/26/08David McCormick Appointed the Duberg Professor of Neurobiology
09/23/08Extinct May Not be Forever for Some Species of Galapagos Tortoises
09/23/08'Physics of Golf' To Open Fall Science Saturdays Series
09/22/08Yale Prize To Support Eco-Ventures
09/19/08Scientists Find “Redesigned Hammer” That Forged Evolution of Pregnancy in Mammals
09/18/08Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxy in Universe
09/12/08DNA Sequencing Technologies To Be Examined in Symposium
09/09/08Media Advisory: Yale Scientists Available to Speak About Large Hadron Collider
09/04/08Yale Astronomer Discovers Upper Mass Limit for Black Holes
09/04/08Discovery Challenges Fundamental Tenet of Cancer Biology
09/04/08Yale Researchers Find “Junk DNA” May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot
09/03/08Trichoplax Genome Sequenced - ‘Rosetta Stone’ For Understanding Evolution

 

August 
08/29/08In Memoriam: Marc G. Pypaert, Directed Electron Microscopy Facility
08/27/08Yale Names Vice President for New West Campus
08/22/08Yale Undergrads’ Amazon Trip Yields A Treasure Trove of Diversity
08/12/08Yale’s Spielman Wins Gödel Prize for Showing How Computer Algorithms Solve Problems
08/11/08Yale Researchers Discover Tiny Cellular Antennae Trigger Neural Stem Cells
08/05/08“Cosmic Ghost” Discovered by Volunteer Astronomer

 

July 
07/18/08Researchers Capture Images that Illuminate One of Cell’s Mysteries
07/18/08Joan Feigenbaum Named the Grace Murray Hopper Professor
07/18/08In Memoriam: Arthur Galston, Plant Biologist, Fought Use of Agent Orange
07/18/08Teen-Designed Exhibition at the Peabody Museum Explores Careers in Geosciences
07/17/08Researchers Discover Remnant of an Ancient ‘RNA World’
07/08/08Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence of Color, Say Yale Scientists

 

June 
06/12/08Yale’s Snyder Awarded 2007 Connecticut Medal of Science
06/05/08Leading Scientist Named New Chair of Cell Biology at Yale
06/03/08Yale Environment 360 Magazine Launches Online

 

May 
05/28/08Kavli Prize Awarded to Pasko Rakic, Pioneering Yale Neuroscientist
05/27/08Yale Computer Scientists Devise a "P4P" System for Efficient Internet Usage
05/27/08New Unifying Theory of Lasers Advanced by Physicists
05/22/08Yale University Researchers Resolve Global Warming Mystery
05/19/08Yale’s Scassellati Gets Microsoft Human-Robot Interaction Award for Robotics
05/16/08Ten appointed members of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
05/16/08Strobel's Students Rediscover Scientific 'Wonder' on Rain Forest Expedition
05/15/08Yale’s Rosenbaum Honored by University of Siena
05/07/08Paul Anastas Honored by Council of Scientific Society Presidents for Leadership in Founding of "Green Chemistry"
05/07/08Mathematician Peter Jones Named to the National Academy of Sciences
05/02/08Joan Steitz Honored with the Distinguished Albany Medical Center Prize
05/01/08It's a Unisex Brain with Specific Signals that Trigger "Male" Behavior

 

April 
04/30/08Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early Universe
04/24/08Yale Engineering Students Demonstrate New Ways to Harvest Energy
04/23/08The Yale Peabody Museum Presented its Distinguished Verrill Medal to Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
04/14/08Yale Creates School of Engineering & Applied Science
04/10/08New Science Saturdays Talk: "Using Magnets to Look at Molecules"
04/09/08Genetic Mutation Appears to Cause Asthma
04/08/08Chlorine Triggers Protective Nerve Receptor
04/04/08Yale Scientists Visualize the Machinery of mRNA Splicing
04/04/08Yale University's Strobel Recognized for Work on RNA
04/01/08Special Yale-CURE BioHaven Panel Discussion – "The Next Big Idea: Creating a New Venture"

 

March 
03/31/08Study Questions "Cost of Complexity" in Evolution
03/27/08Governors to Gather at Yale for Climate Change Conference
03/24/08Yale Science Saturdays Make Science Fun for "Kids of All Ages"
03/20/08Yale Scientists Show that a microRNA Can Reduce Lung Cancer Growth
03/19/08Reducing Carbon Emissions Could Help — Not Harm — U.S. Economy
03/11/08Yale-CURE BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Presents Optherion: "Diagnosing and Treating Age-related Macular Degeneration"

 

February 
02/29/08Yale Study Offers Revolutionary View of Ecosystem Ecology
02/26/08Yale Scientists Create Artificial "Cells" that Boost the Immune Response to Cancer
02/26/08Yale Scientist Honored for Academic Innovation and Leadership

 

January 
01/31/08Energy Scientist to Speak at Yale
01/29/08Agriculture Is Changing the Chemistry of the Mississippi River
01/23/08Switzerland Tops 2008 Environmental Scorecard at World Economic Forum
01/22/08Yale-BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Presents Rib-X Pharmaceuticals "Designing Novel Antibiotics"
01/09/08480 Million-Year-Old Fossil Sheds Light on 150-Year-Old Paleontological Mystery