Anahad O'Connor
Anahad O'Connor
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Pilot program tests online course registration
In another step towards integrating technology into student life, Yale is experimenting with moving course registration online. A pilot program, being conducted in Branford and Timothy Dwight colleges this semester, allows students both to pick courses...
AIDS vaccine spurs debate on prices
Questions arise about its potential affordability and access
The announcement last week of a new AIDS vaccine developed at Yale added ammunition to the fight to end the world's AIDS epidemic. But the fate of the drug and whether it will actually reach the developing world where it is needed most is in the hands...
YALE SCIENTISTS DEVELOP PROMISING AIDS VACCINE
Vaccine successful with monkeys; will now move to human trials
A team of Yale researchers announced Thursday that it has developed an inexpensive and easily administered AIDS vaccine that prevents the disease in monkeys and may work in humans. The vaccine, developed over the last six years by Dr. John K.
Military awards Yale $2.4 million project
Money will aid in creation of micro batteries
The United States Department of Defense is spending billions of dollars on developing weapons of the future, and this week it enlisted the help of Yale scientists. The faculty of engineering announced Monday that the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
Glitch at YaleStation.org disrupts YCC elections
This past week an undetected computer glitch came very close to disrupting the Yale College Council election's online voting process, which is being hosted by YaleStation.org. Voting for YCC representatives is supposed to be a relatively simple...
Phone service to be disrupted
Students who woke up this morning and found their phone line dead have nothing to fear -- the problem should only be temporary. Information Technology Services is conducting maintenance Thursday morning on student telephones that is scheduled to last...
ITS finishes selection process for new CAs
Being a computer assistant is not an easy job, but every year at least 25 new students sign up for the challenge. This past Friday, Information Technology Services finished its selection process for next year's CAs, who will be replacing graduating...
Wireless Ethernet coverage expands
If you have ever wanted to sit out in the middle of Cross Campus lawn and surf the Web, now is your chance. Information Technology Services is quickly approaching completion of its wireless Ethernet program and has recently expanded wireless coverage...
How to design, build a better submarine
In an engineering lab not far from Old Campus, a Yale scientist is using super-helium to improve the design of nuclear submarines and aircraft. Mechanical engineering and physics professor Katepalli Sreenivasan, working with a group of physicists...
Informatics center continues to propel medical advances
Modern day clinical medicine has made great strides over the last two decades, largely because of the growing use of computers in the field. Though combining computer technology with medicine is no easy task, the Yale Center for Medical Informatics has...