2009 News Archive: Science & Engineering

November 
11/20/09Research Revolution Underway at West Campus
11/19/09MEDIA ADVISORY: Work of Yale Scientists Shows Vitality of Darwin’s Origin of Species
11/15/09Scientists Guide Immune Cells with Light and Microparticles
11/13/09Summer BioBlitz Turns Up the Common and the Unexpected
11/05/09New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response to HIV and Prostate Cancer
11/02/09Gene Increases Susceptibility to Post-Traumatic Stress, Yale Researchers Find

 

October 
10/30/09Alexander Lauded for Helping To Lead the City’s Transformation
10/30/09Sackler Institute Symposium Celebrates Interdisciplinary Scientific Endeavors
10/23/09For Work on Dark Matter, Geha Is Chosen One of the ‘Brilliant 10’
10/19/09Evolution’s Path May Lead To Shorter, Stouter Women Who Give Birth Earlier
10/16/09Exhibit Highlights Diversity of Resources at the City’s Lighthouse Point Park
10/15/09Yale Engineer Wins Packard Fellowship for Harnessing Power of Light
10/14/09Terry Lectures Explore Cosmic Origins and Solutions to Today’s Global Problems
10/12/09New Center at Yale Will Explore What Makes the Human Brain Unique
10/09/09When Being a Cuckold Makes Evolutionary Sense
10/09/09Institute Promotes ‘A New Way of Thinking About Science’
10/08/09Physicists Measure Elusive ‘Persistent Current’ That Flows Forever
10/07/09MEDIA ADVISORY: Press Conference With Nobel Prize Winner Thomas Steitz Today at Noon
10/07/09Yale’s Thomas Steitz Shares 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — Described Structure and Function of Life’s Protein-Making Factory
10/02/09Evolution Experts Probe Human Nature

 

September 
09/30/09From Fossils to Game Boys: Science Saturdays at Yale Get Kids Hooked on Science
09/28/09Yale Recruits Evolution Experts To Launch Microbial Diversity Institute
09/25/09Yale Engineers Track Bacteria’s Kayak Paddle-like Motion for First Time
09/24/09From Solar Energy to LEDs: Yale Scientists Tackle Energy Problems in Five New Energy Research Frontier Centers
09/22/09Yale Aging Expert and Evolutionary Biologist Receive “Genius” Grants
09/18/09Two Yale Chemists Are Named Inaugural Fellows of the ACS
09/18/09The Secrets of Cilia
09/18/09Shankar Invites Class To Share His Passion for the ‘Marvels’ of Physics
09/16/09Yale Team Finds Mechanism That Constructs Key Brain Structure
09/16/09Yale Camera Captures Images of Rare African Golden Cat
09/10/09Extremophile Yields a Key Cog in Life’s Protein Factory
09/09/09Scientists Use MicroRNAs to Track Evolutionary History for First Time

 

August 
08/28/09Grants Support Chemists’ Work on ‘Soft’ Crystals, Nanotubes and More
08/27/09A Cell’s Private Life: Yale Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein
08/26/09From Terabytes to Petabytes: Computer Scientists at Yale Develop New Hybrid Database System
08/26/09Scientists Find Evidence of Iridescence in 40-Million-Year-Old Feather Fossil
08/06/09Yale Researchers Find Key to Keeping Cells in Shape
08/06/09Astronomers Discover Stars in Early Galaxies Had a Need for Speed
08/02/09In a Chemical Library, Yale Researchers Finds Keys to Cell Movement

 

July 
07/27/09Galaxy Zoo Hunters Help Astronomers Discover Rare ‘Green Pea’ Galaxies
07/23/09Yale Researchers Find Key ‘Conductor’ of Nature’s Synchronicity
07/17/09Andreas Savvides Is New Barton Weller Associate Professor
07/17/09NSF Grant To Support Tully’s Work on Behavior of Atoms
07/16/09Secrets of a Life-Giving Amino Acid Revealed by Yale Researchers
07/14/09New Isotope Cluster Could Lead to Better Understanding of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
07/13/09Scientists Discover Light Force with “Push” Power
07/01/09Plants Save the Earth from an Icy Doom

 

June 
06/28/09Scientists Create First Electronic Quantum Processor
06/18/09Mate Selection: How Does She Know He’ll Take Care of the Kids
06/12/09Scientists Bring Species From Antarctic Seas Back to Peabody
06/12/09Yale Researchers Awarded Gates Foundation Grants To Improve Health in Developing Countries

 

May 
05/28/09Yale Researchers Find Tools Needed To Build a Cellular Shredder
05/22/09Better Supernovae Measurements Aim To Improve Understanding of Dark Energy
05/19/09From ‘Alarmed’ to ‘Dismissive’: The Six Ways Americans View Global Warming
05/15/09William L. Jorgensen Has Been Appointed as Sterling Professor of Chemistry
05/15/09Dufresne Named to John J. Lee Assistant Professorship
05/15/09Mathcounts Brings Together Yale Students and Area Youths To Build Problem-Solving Skills
05/15/09Scientist Wins National Honor for Efforts To Convert Fungus to Fuel
05/15/09X-Ray Diffraction To Be Explored and Demonstrated in Inaugural Symposium
05/15/09School of Engineering Honors Staff for Excellence in Service
05/03/09Nanotechnology Holds Promise for STD Drug Delivery
05/01/09Young scientists vie for slot in national Chemistry Olympiad
05/01/09Eleven Scientists Are Honored With Their Election to CASE
05/01/09In Memoriam: David M. Smith, Silviculture Expert and Former Manager of Yale Forests
05/01/09Two ‘Promising’ Faculty Members Are Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

 

April 
04/30/09In Ocean’s Depths, Heat-Loving “Extremophile” Evolves a Strange Molecular Trick
04/30/09“Fungi-to-Fuel” Effort Nets Defense Department Fellowship for Yale Biochemist
04/28/09President Obama Appoints Levin to National Advisory Post on Science
04/28/09Yale’s Roeder Elected to National Academy of Sciences
04/27/09MEDIA ADVISORY: Best-Selling Author Opens Special Astronomy Exhibit at Yale
04/27/09Catching the Lightwave: Nano-mechanical Sensors “Wired” by Photonics
04/24/09NSF Grant Supports Work on Creating Artificial Proteins
04/24/09Fox Foundation Funds Researchers’ Work on Parkinson’s Disease
04/24/09Talk Recounts Experience of Yale’s First Black Graduates
04/24/09‘Starry Messenger’ Sheds Light on ‘Heavens in the Age of Galileo’
04/24/09Yale Innovators’ Inventions Today Are Shaping the World of Tomorrow
04/16/09Yale Faculty Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
04/15/09MEDIA ADVISORY: Battery-driven Car of the Future on Display at Yale’s Science Saturdays
04/10/09In Memoriam: Martin J. Klein, Historian of Modern Physics, Edited Einstein Papers
04/08/09Donoghue to Discuss Darwin and Biodiversity in Keynote Lecture at Yale Medical Library
04/03/09Yale Scientists Underscore the Promise of Stem Cell Research
04/02/09Bird Feathers Produce Color Through Structure Similar to Beer Foam
04/01/09Sexy or Repulsive? Butterfly Wings Can Be Both To Mates and Predators

 

March 
03/27/09Class Inspiring Students To Uncover the ‘Rules’ That Govern Life Itself
03/20/09Bonnie Fleming Appointed the Horace D. Taft Associate Professor
03/20/09Yale To Kick Off Year-Long Celebration of Astronomy with Exploration of Ways To Preserve Beauty of the Night Sky
03/20/09Two Researchers Will Develop New Therapy with Grant from Lupus Research Institute
03/19/09From Visual Illusions to Strange Stuff and Battery-driven Cars of the Future: Yale Announces the Spring 2009 Science Saturdays Series
03/10/09Pachauri To Head New Climate and Energy Institute at Yale
03/06/09Yale Astronomers Eager for Kepler Spacecraft Data
03/06/09Chemist Honored for Studies on Biological Activities of Titanium
03/06/09Postdocs Awarded Research Support
03/05/09MEDIA ADVISORY: Yale Scientist Available to Speak About NASA’s Kepler Mission

 

February 
02/26/09CO2 Drop and Global Cooling Caused Antarctic Glacier to Form
02/25/09Micro-RNAs Are Life’s Genetic Sculptors, Yale Researchers Find
02/20/09$12 Million Yale-Caltech Effort To Probe ‘Grandest Questions in Modern Astrophysics’
02/20/09Planetarium Will Take Public on Journeys Through the Cosmos
02/20/09Engineer Hong Tang Wins Career Development Award from the NSF
02/20/09Team Visits Chile on Quest for Rare Fuel-Producing Microorganism
02/17/09Web Users To Write ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxies’
02/11/09Yale Engineers Revolutionize Nano-device Fabrication Using Amorphous Metals
02/06/09Junior Faculty 'Shop’ for Free Lab Equipment at West Campus
02/06/09Program Aims To Prove That Science IS a Girl Thing
02/06/09There’s No PowerPoint in This Classroom; Just Six Blackboards and Lots of Chalk
02/06/09With Grant, Scientist Hopes To Help Create ‘Green’ Drugs
02/06/09Charles Bailyn Is Honored for Work Measuring Galactic Black Holes
02/05/09Yale Celebrates Darwin
02/05/09Origin of Claws Seen in 390 Million-Year-Old Fossil
02/05/09NPR’s Ira Flatow — “Talking Science” at Yale
02/02/09Why Don’t More Animals Change Their Sex

 

January 
01/30/09In Carlson’s Class, It’s the Principle That Matters (i.e. Understanding It)
01/30/09Robert Schoelkopf Is Named the First William Norton Professor
01/30/09In Memoriam: Biologist Frederic Richards, Developed MB&B at Yale
01/27/09“Fishy” Clue Helps Establish How Proteins Evolve
01/26/09Biographer of Charles Darwin to Speak at Yale on “Darwin and the Challenge of Biography”
01/23/09Feeling Your Words: Hearing with your Face
01/23/09Ovarian Cancer Researchers at Yale Win Millions in Federal and Foundation Grants
01/22/09Mixing Genomics and Geography Yields Insights into Life and Environment
01/21/09Verdict: Supermassive Black Holes Not Guilty of Shutting Down Star Formation
01/16/09Conference To Focus on Women’s Contributions to the Field of Physics
01/13/09Media Advisory: New Era of Science Policy — Yale Experts Available to Discuss Obama’s Plan
01/13/09Energy-Efficient Water Purification Made Possible by Yale Engineers
01/08/09Study Reveals Surprisingly High Tolerance for Racism
01/04/09Yale Researchers Create an Epic Genetic Atlas of Rice