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Portrait of Joan Steitz
September 11, 2018
Yale’s Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, is recipient of the 2018 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science.
Yale-NUS students pose in the lobby of the Yale Center for British Art.
September 11, 2018
Program topics ranged from “Grand Strategy in the Cold War” to “Global Environmental Governance” and “U.S. Border Technology and Migration Policy.”
Virtual brain
September 11, 2018
A Yale initiative that unites data science and neuroscience is one of 19 partnerships to receive $8.5 million in funding under the NSF’s TRIPODS + X program.
A scene from “The Beggar’s Opera” painted by William Hogarth
September 11, 2018
The staged reading of John Gay’s “ballad opera” of 1728 will be held in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 5:30 p.m.
Ship full of large containers at sea.
September 10, 2018
By reapplying the classical work of David Ricardo, Yale’s Samuel Kortum and his collaborator Jonathan Eaton have revolutionized 21st-century economics.
Variable friction robot
September 7, 2018
Using newly developed “Variable Friction” robot fingers, Yale researchers are exploring the interplay between friction and force to create a better robot hand.
Open book, with grass and a tree sprouting on top of its pages, and a lightbulb floating on top of it.
September 6, 2018
A year old, the Environmental Humanities Initiative aims to deepen understanding of how nature, environmental science, culture, and politics are interconnected.