Yale University: Science

Yale planet hunter Debra Fischer talks about the search for new planets and the possibility of life in outer space.

Filmmaker and Poynter Fellow Randy Olson tells scientists how to communicate (September 29, 2010)

Filmmaker and Poynter Fellow Randy Olson discusses science communication (September 29, 2010)

Give him a minute -- he can explain! Veteran journalist Robert Krulwich has spent a career making the complex clear.

Keith Baker, professor of physics, discusses the Large Hadron Collider. (April 21, 2010)

Maureen Long, Assistant Professor of Geology & Geophysics, gives listeners the 101 on earthquakes. (March 18, 2010)

Science Journalism in an Irrational World

Steven Girvin, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, explains how he and a team of engineers created the world's first solid-state quantum information processor. (June 26, 2007)

Michael Donoghue delivers the keynote address, “Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life, and the Future of Biodiversity,” for the Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates Lecture

Ann Valentine, associate professor of chemistry at Yale, discusses how different metals interact with biological organisms, including humans.

Michael Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology discusses evening primroses and the survival of plants in the face of rapid climate change.

Derek Briggs, Director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, talks about a unique fossil find — a missing link in understanding the evolution of arthropod claws.

Ainissa Ramirez describes the upcoming attractions in Yale's Science Saturdays, a program that uses "doughnuts, demonstrations and dynamic lectures" to make science fun and accessible.

Kevin Schawinski, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics (Feb. 27, 2009)

Steven Girvin, Deputy Provost for Science and Technology speaks about the benefits and pitfalls of interdisciplinary research and teaching

Yale researcher says subtle racism is most intractable

Yale's Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar is making fundamental discoveries about plants' defenses against pathogens.

Richard O.Prum,Professor and Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale discusses the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs.

David Bercovici, Professor and Chair of Geology and Geophysics at Yale discusses how convection drives "weather" in the Earth's core,mantle, oceans, atmosphere and in the Sun.

Environmental engineer William Mitch discusses his work as faculty advisor to Yale's Engineers Without Borders. The students use engineering principles they've learned to build safe water systems in the developing world.

Jack Harris, assistant professor of physics and applied physics, and one of Discover magazine's "20 Under 40" for 2008, discusses his experiments to measure the force of light.

Meg Urry, Chair of Physics and the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale, explores the mysteries of dark energy.

Michael Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Stephen Smith discuss the dynamics of plant evolution.

Gisella Caccone and Jeffrey Powell, faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale discuss finding genetic traces of giant Galapagos tortoise species, thought to be extinct more than 150 years ago, living in the wild.

Tom Pollard has spent a lifetime understanding how cells move and divide.

Yale's James Noonan describes genetic differences between humans and other primates.

Astronomer Kevin Schawinski discusses the finding of a unique astronomical object, "Hanny's Voorwerp," and the public volunteers spurring Galaxy Zoo.

Dylan Clyne, a postdoctoral fellow who conducted research in the Department of Cell Biology discusses functional mapping of brain circuits that control sexual behavior in fruit flies.

Professor Anna Marie Pyle discusses new findings about RNA processing and the form-function relationship of Group II introns and their evolution.

Ainissa Ramirez discusses creation and development of the Science Saturdays workshops for "kids of all ages."

Tyler Lyson, graduate student in the Department of Geology and Geophysics discusses the discovery, excavation and study of a dinosaur mummy.

Charles D. Bailyn, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics discusses new findings and therories of black hole formation.

Laurie Santos, associate professor of psychology, talks about her research testing fundamental economic principles in laboratory capuchin monkeys.

Anthony Leiserowitz, director of Yale Project on Climate Change, discusses results of recent opinion polls on climate change and global warming.

Craig Crews, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, of Chemistry, and of Physiology at Yale University discusses his recent research finding that triptolide, a component of a Traditional Chinese Medicine, may be the basis for a potent new drug to treat a lethal and debilitating genetic kidney disease.

Michael Snyder, Cullman Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Director of the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics; and Post-doctoral associate Jan Korbel discuss new findings of individual diversity caused by large-scale gene rearrangement.

Alfred Guy, Director of the Writing Center, will interview Stephen Stearns, Edward P Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. (July 25, 2007)

Bonnie T. Fleming, Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale, speaks on the recent MiniBooNE findings about the nature of neutrinos. (April 13, 2007)

Priya Natarajan, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale, discusses the development and implications of the recent mapping of dark matter in the universe. (June 22, 2007)

Professor Snyder speaks about the results of the ENCODE pilot project, and other recent aspects of understanding the structure-function relationship of genes and regulatory elements of the genome. (June 22, 2007)

Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and HHMI Investigator and her Postdoctoral Fellow Shobha Vasudevan discuss their recent findings on microRNAs acting as activators as well as repressors of gene activity.

Professor Carmela Cuomo of the University of New Haven delivers a lecture as part of the Yale Peabody Museum's Biodiversity and Global Change Day, sponsored by the Insitute of Museum and Library Services. (April 2007)

Alanna Schepartz, Milton Harris '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, delivers part of the "In the Company of Scholars" lecture series. (April 4, 2006)

Tian Xu, Yale Professor of Genetics, Molecular Oncology and Development; Vice-Chair, Department of Genetic, delivers a lecture concerning the next state of the human genome at the Yale Tomorrow campaign launch. (September 30, 2007)