Bonnie T. Fleming, recently appointed Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, focuses her research on experimentally defining the fundamental behavior of the tiny elemental particles known as neutrinos.
Cheryl Hayashi SM ’88 (Ph.D. ’96), a 2007 MacArthur Fellow, has had a lifelong curiosity about nature, and a Yale campus job feeding a spider colony in a lab eventually propelled her into research on spider silk.
Seeking potential methods of reducing carbon emissions, Yale professors in the Geology and Geophysics Department are studying some of the questions raised with the development of carbon sequestration techniques.