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Mobile computing in the ‘bring your own device’ era

By Guest PostSeptember 26, 2013Education, Technologyacademic work, byod, byod friendly, device, era, gartner study, jeff capuano, len peters, mobile computing, patrick lynch, smartphone, university cio, us college student, wireless network, yale

Early in September Yale passed a milestone in mobile computing, with a record 39,414 mobile devices connected to its wireless networks. As on most college campuses the growth of mobile computing at Yale has been explosive, from well under 10,000 devices three years ago to almost 40,000 today.

A recent Gartner study showed that smartphone ownership among college students went from 55% in 2011 to 62% in 2012, and the percentage of students using their smartphones for academic work doubled in the same period. The typical U.S. college student now routinely uses between 2-3 wireless devices, and higher education computing experts predict that average to grow to 3-4 devices over the next year. (more…)

Indian foresters learn state-of-the art methods in mid-career training at Yale

By Guest PostJuly 30, 2013Environmentamherst, career training, chadwick dearing oliver, forest policy, global context, greater boston area, ifs, indian foresters, indian officers, management, mark ashton, mary tyrrell, paul barten, pocket parks, quabbin reservoir, short course, teri university, tom wagner, university of massachusetts, urban resources initiative, uri, watershed, yale, yale myers forest

Officers of the Indian Forest Service (IFS) arrived on the Yale campus July 21 for a two-week training session on state-of-the-art concepts and practices in forestry and environmental management. The session is part of a partnership between the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry at Yale, TERI University (The Energy and Resources Institute in India), and the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy acting under the auspices of the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests.

The Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests conceived the idea of holding short, intensive training sessions as a way of injecting fresh ideas, tools, and techniques into its forest service. The Yale Global Institute has participated from the beginning of the program, making this the fourth year, and the sixth group of Indian foresters welcomed to campus. (more…)

Getting to the heart of disease

By Guest PostMarch 29, 2013Healthanti semitism, barry l zaret, by accident, cardiology, coronary disease, coronary physiology, design, evans downing, growth factors, heart of disease, jewish parents, jews, leningrad, lymphatic diseases, lymphatic vessels, massachusetts institute, michael simons, MIT, russia, soviet union, st. petersburg, target cells, Technology, treating cancer, treatment, veins, william grossman, yale

Scientist works toward molecular therapies for cardiovascular diseases

Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, to Jewish parents before the fall of the Soviet Union, Michael Simons, M.D., says a medical career was “sort of a default.” Anti-Semitism barred Jews from many scientific pursuits, so his parents, both doctors, encouraged his interest in medicine as the basis for a strong natural science education.

Simons’ family immigrated to Boston in 1978. Simons had begun a 6-year medical program immediately after high school in Russia, so he was admitted to Boston University School of Medicine as a third-year student, but he chose instead to start anew, as an undergraduate. “I thought, if I continue in a medical program, I’ll forever have an inadequate undergraduate education,” he says, speaking with a mild accent and an understated intensity. (more…)

From Neanderthals to alien life: Q&A with Carl Zimmer

By Guest PostMarch 18, 2013Educationalien life, carl zimmer, environmental studies program, neanderthals, yale, yale university, yale university tumblr

Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer ’87, a lecturer in Yale’s Environmental Studies Program, answers questions submitted by the public via the Yale University Tumblr. *Source: Yale University

In Conversation with: Paul Bracken, Expert on Nuclear ‘Power Politics’

By Guest PostFebruary 20, 2013Politicsatomic bomb, cold war, collapse, critical regions, department of defense, expert, food, iran, Japan, mirv, missile, multiple warhead icbm, north korea, nuclear power politics, nuclear test, oil donations, paul bracken, political science, pyongyang, second nuclear age, south korea, submarines, un. china, united states, Washington, weapons program, world, yale

North Korea, which just conducted its third nuclear test, is using its weapons program to deter the United States by holding its allies “hostage,” according to Paul Bracken, who teaches management and political science at Yale.

Bracken is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on several Department of Defense advisory boards, and is the author, most recently, of “The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics” (Times Books, 2012). The following is an edited version of an email interview with him. (more…)

‘To the Mountaintop’: Journalist Discusses Social Justice Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

By Guest PostFebruary 18, 2013Culture, Politicsactivist, africa, african americans, aids, american culture, american dream, author, award winning journalist, charlayne hunter gault, civil rights movement, constitution, equity, future generations, highest hiv rates, hiv, james p comer, maggie, mainstream media, martin luther king, new haven, philosopher frantz fanon, public health, social justice, South Africa, success, timeless, to the mountaintop, transcendent, women of color, yale

Award-winning journalist, activist, and author Charlayne Hunter-Gault told a packed audience at Yale that lessons learned from the civil rights movement still have relevance for current and future generations.

Hunter-Gault delivered a lecture titled “Social Justice, Equity, and Public Health” during a Branford College master’s tea on Feb. 5. (more…)

2013 Bollingen Poetry Prize Goes to Charles Wright

By Guest PostJanuary 23, 2013Cultureamerican poetry, american poets, bollingen poetry prize, buffalo yoga, bye and bye, charles wright, cyclic changes, dino campana, eugenio montale, ezra pound, history, human, language, lifetime achievement, littlefoot, lyrics, memory, metaphysics, myth, natural world, outtakes, paul mellon, phenomena, poems, poetry and prose, poetry prize, quotidian, rainbow, ruth lilly, sacred, scar tissue, secular, university of virginia, us army, verbal scroll paintings, wallace stevens, wrong end, yale, yale university

Charles Wright, hailed as one of the leading American poets of his generation, has been named the winner of Yale’s 2013 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.

The Bollingen Prize in American Poetry is among the most prestigious prizes given to American writers. Established by Paul Mellon in 1949, it is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library to an American poet for the best book published during the previous two years or for lifetime achievement in poetry. The prize includes a cash award of $150,000. (more…)

Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs also Wiped out the ‘Obamadon’

By Guest PostDecember 11, 2012Nature, Scienceage of dinosaurs, alberta, asteroid collision, asteroid strike, bhart anjan bhullar, boundary, canada, carnivorous lizards, cerberophis, cretaceous, dinosaur species, dinosaurs, diversification, ecosystem, edmontosaurus, evolution, extinct lizard, flood, fossils, gracilis, harvard, jacques a gauthier, kill, lizard, mammals, mass extinction, montana, new mexico, nicholas r longrich, North America, obamadon, obamadon gracilis, odon, palaeosaniwa, paleogene, political significance, polyglyphanodontia, slender, snake, species, survivor, swamps, t rex, taxonomy, tooth, triceratops, united states, us president, yale, yucatan peninsula

The asteroid collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs also led to extreme devastation among snake and lizard species, according to new research — including the extinction of a newly identified lizard Yale and Harvard scientists have named Obamadon gracilis.

“The asteroid event is typically thought of as affecting the dinosaurs primarily,” said Nicholas R. Longrich, a postdoctoral associate with Yale’s Department of Geology and Geophysics and lead author of the study. “But it basically cut this broad swath across the entire ecosystem, taking out everything. Snakes and lizards were hit extremely hard.” (more…)

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