By Jim Shelton
January 21, 2021
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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has presented the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize to Daniel Spielman, Sterling Professor of Computer Science and professor of statistics and data science, for helping to solve a theoretical problem that had vexed mathematicians for decades.
The Held Prize honors outstanding, innovative, creative, and influential research in combinatorial and discrete optimization, or related parts of computer science, such as the design and analysis of algorithms and complex theory.
Spielman shares the award with Adam W. Marcus of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Nikhil Srivastava of the University of California, Berkeley.
By Jim Shelton
January 19, 2021
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Seven months and a lifetime ago, Anna Martinelli-Parker had a major decision to make.
Should she leave her parents’ home in Washington, D.C., and start college at Yale in person on campus? Should she live at home and take classes remotely? Or should she take a gap year?
“I knew I wanted to come to New Haven, but it was very hard,” said Martinelli-Parker, a first-year student. “I had to think about my own health … There was a lot of deliberation.”
January 20, 2021
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David Post (Photo credit: Dan Renzetti)
David Post, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed dean of faculty of Yale-NUS College, effective July 1, 2021, for a term of three years.
Post, who will succeed Dean of Faculty Jeannette Ickovics, will lead faculty development, drive research endeavors, and refine Yale-NUS College’s innovative curriculum.
Yale-NUS is a college in Singapore jointly founded by Yale and the National University of Singapore (NUS). It was established in 2011 and admitted its first students in 2013.
By Jim Shelton
January 18, 2021
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Mylonite is a fine-grained, compact metamorphic rock produced by dynamic recrystallization of the constituent minerals resulting in a reduction of the grain size of the rock. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)
A new study suggests that tiny, mineral grains squeezed and mixed over millions of years set in motion the chain of events that plunge massive tectonic plates deep into the Earth’s interior.
The theory, proposed by Yale scientists David Bercovici and Elvira Mulyukova, may provide an origin story for subduction, one of the most fundamental forces responsible for the dynamic nature of the planet.