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Yale Professor Daniel Spielman Receives “Genius Grant”
Professor Daniel Spielman has received a MacArthur Fellowship for innovative research in algorithm efficiency
Read More »Mitchell Smooke Awarded the Zeldovich Medal
Professor Mitchell Smooke has received the Zeldovich Medal for his research in combustion theory
Read More »Ten Incredible Intellectuals, Ten Special Stories
The 2012 Nobel Prize winners represent some of the most important contributions to their respective fields
Read More »Professor Joan Steitz Honored As Role Model For Women Scientists
Professor Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, recently received two major awards for her achievements as a woman scientist
Read More »The Road Less Traveled: Darren Zhu, B.S. ’13
Darren Zhu has been awarded one of the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowships, worth $100,000, to continue his work with the biotech company that he and David Luan founded
Read More »Laurie Santos Honored by the APA
Yale Professor Laurie Santos is the recipient of the 2012 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the area of animal learning and behavior.
Read More »Ig Nobel Prize: Humor and Science
Professor Robert Pietrzak is part of a research team that was awarded the Ig Nobel prize, which honors unusual and imaginative research, for their study on the effects of voluntary inhibition of urination on
Read More »Award for Major AIDS Drug Deal
Yale, Oncolys Biopharma, and Bristol-Myers Squibb have received the Deals of Distinction Award from the Licensing Executive Society for a licensing agreement that will enable a promising antiretroviral drug, festinavir, to be developed
Read More »Grant to Study Earth Systems
The National Science Foundation awarded a team of researchers, including David Bercovici, a $4.97 million grant to fund a research project studying Earth's development in terms of the interactions between major components of
Read More »From Idea to Biomedical Start-Up Company
Elizabeth Asai MC ’13, Nickolas Demas MC ’13, and Elliot Swart MC ’13 won the $100,000 prize awarded by the Center for Innovative Medicine and Integrative Technology (CIMIT) this past summer for their novel
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