Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
If you find yourself agonizing over how to select a new laptop computer or devouring a chocolate bar right after dinner, do not despair. Ravi Dhar can assure you that you are neither abnormal nor alone. Dhar, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management, recently studied...
Last month, University President Richard Levin appointed Rajendra Pachauri, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and renowned economist and environmentalist, to the directorship of the newly formed Yale Climate and Energy Institute. Last week, the News sat down and talked to Pachauri about his plans for the institute and his views on climate change. Q: What is your vision for...
Study: Autistic children miss social cues According to a new Yale study, 2-year-olds with autism lack signs of attention to social cues that help newborn babies pay attention to other people. Published in the March 29 online issue of Nature, the study finds that, while non-autistic children pay attention to all human biological motion, autistic children only pay...
Long days spent in the lab are paying dividends for two Yale juniors whose work in the sciences was rewarded with the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship on Monday. Sameer Gupta ’10 and James Luccarelli ’10 are among 300 college sophomores and juniors nationwide who beat out a field of about 1,100 to win the award, which provides up to $7,500 annually for at...
From the Great Pyramids and the Sydney Opera House, people, institutions and landmarks around the globe powered down from 8:30 to 9:30 local time Saturday night in order to raise awareness about the benefits of energy conservation and the issue of climate change. The annual event, which was started in Sydney in 2007, has now spread to a number of U.S. college campuses...
The Au Bon Pain on the corner of Elm and Broadway may be a popular place for Elis to gather over a meal, but a new Yale study says that few actually bother to access nutritional information about the food they purchase there. Earlier this month, Yale researchers from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity released the results of an observational study conducted at...
Are we alone in the universe? It is a question that has perplexed mankind for centuries — and now two Yale scientists are part of the latest NASA search for the elusive answer. Earlier this month, NASA launched the Kepler Mission — a robotic probe capable of finding Earth-sized and smaller planets around other stars in the Milky Way that may support extraterrestrial...
Last month, Jewish writer and Nobel Laureate Eli Wiesel was quoted in The New York Times as wishing a particular punishment on Bernie Madoff, the mastermind behind the Ponzi scheme that essentially destroyed Wiesel’s charity. “I would like him to be in a solitary cell with only a screen, and on that screen for at least five years of his life, every day and every...
Cells internally process external signals A new study by Yale researchers shows that a switching station beneath the cell surface is key to detecting and processing signals from outside the cell. The study, published in the March 20 issue of the journal Cell, also describes the molecular details of a switch that turns off signaling from this station. The findings confirm...
Rajendra Pachauri, the current chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will lead the newly formed Yale Climate and Energy Institute, University President Richard Levin announced March 10. Pachauri, who accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, is a world-renowned economist and leader in the international policy debate on...
From from the warring gods of the ancient Greeks to the benevolent God of Judeo-Christianity, the history of religion is long and convoluted. Equally diverse are the practices — lighting the Shabbat candles, taking the sacrament, kneeling in prayer in the direction of Mecca — that have, over time, become the time-honored religion rituals so familiar to us today...
An estimated 9 billion humans will live on Earth in 2050, effectively adding two Chinas to our current population. Meanwhile, international food reserves are dangerously precarious — reportedly at their lowest levels since World War II — a situation further exacerbated by the conversion of arable lands into palm oil and soya plantations that feed biofuel production...
