Pressured by market economics and encouraged by politicians, farmers have largely abandoned the traditional methods of crop rotation, but current methods of monoculture leave crops, and entire species, vulnerable to disease.
Research is taking place both at Yale and across the country to develop clean and sustainable energy systems, and for the first time in many years there is reason to be optimistic that a viable solution to the energy dilemma is on the horizon.
The study of human evolution is a topic of great interest on many levels. Stephen Stearns, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is currently seeking evidence for the existence of modern day natural selection among the human population.
MIT graduate student Ed Vul recently stirred up the field of neuroscience with a paper claiming that the technique of “non-independent analysis” inflates correlations between cognitive performance measure and brain activity as measures by fMRI.
On August 4, 2007, NASA launched the spacecraft Phoenix on an expedition to “follow the water.” Though Phoenix was declared dead in November 2009, it is set to be followed by two other craft in the Mars Scout Program.
Despite popular belief, winter is not guilty of causing you to cough and sneeze all night, causing your throat to hurt, or causing your sinuses to weigh ten pounds. Correlation does not always imply causation, and cold weather does not cause the common cold.
This year, a new Level 3 biosafety laboratory (BSL-3) opened at the Yale School of Public Health, with more advanced technology and increased research space that gives Yale researchers the resources they need to study emergent diseases.
For the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the Yale British Art Center, in conjunction with the Fitzwilliam Museum of the University of Cambridge, put together a phenomenal collection of paintings, sketches, specimens and original documents from Darwin’s era.
A Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology major, Jarrad Aguirre ’09 was one of thirty-two American winners to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, which he will use to complete an MSc in Medical Anthropology at Oxford University.
Richard (Dick) Shank stepped onto Yale’s campus in July of 1942 as a freshman, a member of the class of 1945. Since then, he has been a Yale professor, a residential college dean, and Yale registrar.