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Science 2007–2008 Press Releases

May 2008

05/07/08: Paul Anastas Honored by Council of Scientific Society Presidents for Leadership in Founding of “Green Chemistry”

05/07/08: Yale Mathematician Peter Jones Named to the National Academy of Sciences

05/02/08: Yale’s Joan Steitz Honored with the Distinguished Albany Medical Center Prize

05/01/08: It’s a Unisex Brain with Specific Signals that Trigger “Male” Behavior

April 2008

04/30/08: Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early Universe

04/24/08: Yale Engineering Students Demonstrate New Ways to Harvest Energy

04/23/08: The Yale Peabody Museum will present its distinguished Verrill Medal to Alison Richard, vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge, at a ceremony at Yale’s Luce Hall on Wednesday, April 23.

04/15/08: Book Examines Clash of Capitalism and the Environment

04/15/08: Governors to Gather at Yale for Climate Change Conference

04/14/08: Yale Creates School of Engineering & Applied Science

04/10/08: New Science Saturdays Talk: "Using Magnets to Look at Molecules"

04/10/08: Freeman Dyson to Give Public Lectures at Yale: “Three Myths in the Public Perception of Science”

04/09/08: Weight Discrimination Increasing Among American Adults

04/09/08: Genetic Mutation Appears to Cause Asthma

04/08/08: Chlorine Triggers Protective Nerve Receptor

04/04/08: Yale Scientists Visualize the Machinery of mRNA Splicing

04/04/08: Yale University’s Strobel Recognized for Work on RNA

04/01/08: Special Yale-CURE BioHaven Panel Discussion – “The Next Big Idea: Creating a New Venture”

March 2008

03/31/08: Stonyfield Farm CE-Yo to Discuss How to Make Money and Save the World

03/31/08: Study Questions “Cost of Complexity” in Evolution

03/27/08: Governors to Gather at Yale for Climate Change Conference

03/24/08: Yale Science Saturdays Make Science Fun for “Kids of All Ages”

03/20/08: Yale Scientists Show that a microRNA Can Reduce Lung Cancer Growth

03/19/08: Reducing Carbon Emissions Could Help — Not Harm — U.S. Economy

03/11/08: Yale-CURE BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Presents Optherion: “Diagnosing and Treating Age-related Macular Degeneration”

03/02/08: Yale University and the Government of Peru work on Collaborative Relationship

February 2008

02/29/08: Yale Study Offers Revolutionary View of Ecosystem Ecology

02/26/08: Yale Scientists Create Artificial “Cells” that Boost the Immune Response to Cancer

02/26/08: Yale Scientist Honored for Academic Innovation and Leadership

January 2008

02/26/08: Yale Scientist Honored for Academic Innovation and Leadership

01/31/08: Energy Scientist to Speak at Yale

01/29/08: Agriculture Is Changing the Chemistry of the Mississippi River

01/23/08: Switzerland Tops 2008 Environmental Scorecard at World Economic Forum

01/22/08: Yale-BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Presents Rib-X Pharmaceuticals “Designing Novel Antibiotics”

01/09/08: 480 Million-Year-Old Fossil Sheds Light on 150-Year-Old Paleontological Mystery

December 2007

12/17/07: How Molecular Muscles Help Cells Divide

12/12/07: Global Climate Change: The Impact of El Niño on Galápagos Marine Iguanas

November 2007

11/26/07: New Method of Drug Delivery More Effective at Reaching Brain Tumors

11/21/07: 390-Million-Year-Old Scorpion Fossil — Biggest Bug Known

11/20/07: Monsanto Expands Sponsorship for Peking-Yale Joint Agrobiotechnology Center

11/20/07: Derek Briggs Appointed Next Director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History

11/09/07: New Technology Illuminates Protein Interactions in Living Cells

11/01/07: Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars Presents Vascular Insights

11/01/07: New Facility Expands Yale Capability for Fabricating Nano-Devices

October 2007

10/25/07: Yale Affiliates Named AAAS Fellows for Distinction in Science

10/23/07: Yale Chemist Receives NIH Young Investigator Award for Antibody Targeting

10/23/07: Yale Climate Scientist Honored by Packard Foundation

10/22/07: Biggest “Small” Black Hole Discovered

10/22/07: Yale Physics Olympics: Team Challenges for High School Students

10/22/07: Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars Begin with BioRelix: “Switching to New Forms of Antibiotics”

10/11/07: Yale to Launch Online Environmental Magazine

10/09/07: Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Announces Schedule for 2007-2008

10/09/07: $37 Million Financing for Company Based on Macular Degeneration Research

10/08/07: Nanoethics Group Will Give Public Lecture at Yale on October 10

10/04/07: Majority of Americans Want Local Action on Global Warming, Says Poll

10/03/07: “The Greening of Yale and Beyond” Symposium on October 18

10/03/07: Noted alumnus and conservationist endows deanship of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

10/01/07: Americans Consider Global Warming an Urgent Threat, Poll Finds

September 2007

09/27/07: Individual Differences Caused by Shuffled Chunks of DNA in the Human Genome

09/26/07: Yale Scientists Make Two Giant Steps in Advancement of Quantum Computing

09/06/07: Noted Researcher, Teacher and Administrator Named Yale Dean of Engineering