Kavli News

10/13/2009

Energy Initiative Among Highlights of Fall Kavli Newsletter

The Foundation's quarterly newsletter highlights America's Energy Future Initiative, Kavli Professor John Bowers, the opening of three new Energy Frontier Research Centers, and includes other news and events.

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10/12/2009

New Center at Yale Will Explore What Makes the Human Brain Unique

The Yale School of Medicine has created a new research center to study how our brain evolved uniquely human traits. Named the Yale Center for Human Brain Development and Evolution, the Center will be part of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale

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10/02/2009

For Navigation, Study Finds the Brain Relies on a Series of Maps

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have discovered that, instead of one big map, the brain creates multiple independent maps while navigating the physical world.

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09/19/2009

Yale Team Finds Mechanism That Constructs Key Brain Structure

Yale University researchers have found a molecular mechanism that allows the proper mixing of neurons during the formation of columns essential for the operation of the cerebral cortex, they report in the Sept. 16 online issue of the journal Nature.

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09/18/2009

Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Established at KITP

Gus Gurley, co-founder of Santa Barbara based Digital Instruments (DI), has endowed a chair at UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The first Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology is KITP permanent member Boris Shraiman.

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09/10/2009

Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Efficient Solar Cells

Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, Cornell researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity than now used in calculators and on rooftops.

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09/01/2009

2010 Kavli Prizes Open Call for Nominations

The 2010 Kavli Prize call for nominations has been opened by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The Academy will receive nominations September 1 through December 15, 2009.

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08/17/2009

Even When Faced with Nanoslits, Bacteria Conforms to Tight Spaces

A new study from TU Delft's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience suggests that bacteria can squeeze through practically anything -- even extremely small nanoslits, where they take on a completely new flat shape.

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08/12/2009

Paul Weiss Named Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences

Leading nanoscientist Paul S. Weiss has been named director of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and holder of the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences.

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08/10/2009

First Black Holes Born Starving

The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists wth the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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