A new way to dispose of waste

Compostable program in Tresidder and Lake Houses joins Toyon test effort
By Kelsey Mesher
NEWS| When compostable plates, clam shells, salad containers and utensils were introduced at Tresidder’s Union Square Cafe on Friday, diners joined in a campus-wide effort aimed at reducing food-related waste.

BOSP to open in Madrid

By Georgina Blackett
NEWS| Four years after the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) announced the possibility of launching a program in Spain, Mexico or India, one of the three has finally become a reality. On Friday, BOSP announced the long-awaited opening of a new program in Madrid, Spain’s capital city.

Share of women on faculty increases

By Andrew Valencia
NEWS| The University is claiming success in its ongoing effort to get more women on the faculty, according to Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Pat Jones. Women make up about 43 percent of the incoming faculty class but still represent only 24.3 percent of overall faculty.

Childcare provided for young professors

By Janet Kim
NEWS| Junior faculty members often feel pressure to choose between the demands of the tenure track and the limitations of their biological clocks. In an effort to expand the options available to such up-and-coming professors, Provost John Etchemendy recently introduced a new financial aid program for faculty families with young children.

Value of census decreases

By Rahul Kanakia
NEWS| The future of the U.S. Census — the data set many Americans use to judge themselves and their compatriots — is in doubt, according to participants on last night’s panel “Censuses and Surveys: Still Useful for the Common Good?” Concerns about the privacy of personal information plagued the 2000 U.S. Census, according to panelists, and this public distrust led to a precipitous drop in the Census response rate, which called the accuracy of government statistics into question.

Physicist decodes quarks

By Emma Trotter
NEWS| Yale Physics Prof. John W. Harris took attendees back to the beginning of the universe at the Hewlett Teaching Facility last night in a public lecture entitled “What is that Black Hole Doing in My Quark Soup?”

Spare me the draw-ma, I’m going Greek

By Marissa Miller
NEWS| The first round of housing hell is finally upon the class of 2010.

Using Mosquitos to Fight Malaria

By Rachel Whelan
NEWS| Man-made mosquitoes that are resistant to malaria have an evolutionary advantage over wild-type mosquitoes.

Brainy computing

By Vaughan Meyer
NEWS| The future of technology has been found. Recent winner of the NIH Pioneer award and bioengineering professor Kwabena Boahen has plans to revolutionize computer technology by simulating the human brain.