Yale has joined a legal effort to uphold the longstanding ability of colleges and universities to consider race and ethnicity as elements in a holistic review of applicants in the college admissions process.
In an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,”...
Yale astrophysicists have helped assemble an unprecedented census of the most powerful, growing supermassive black holes in the universe.
Using data from NASA’s Swift satellite and a collection of ground-based telescopes — including the ESO Very Large...
The story of women in astronomy is not simply a tale of the planets they’ve discovered and the black holes they’ve mapped. It is a history filled with persistence and personal triumphs.
“The Sky is for Everyone,” a new book published by Princeton...
In a new analysis, investigators at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) and Harvard indicate that in Massachusetts, a state with a high vaccination rate, the most recent wave of SARS-CoV-2 infection was not associated with an...
Bonnie Fleming, a professor of physics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and faculty member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has taken on a prominent new role as chief research officer and deputy director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National...
Extra waves may be great for surfers, but they can lead to tumultuous weather when they start showing up in jet streams.
That’s because jet streams — blowing ribbons of wind that encircle the earth — play a critical role in the location and severity of...
Jodi Sherman, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine and of epidemiology in environmental health sciences at Yale School of Public Health, will testify Sept. 15 at a U.S. Congressional hearing on what it will take to prepare...
If you want to get the gist of a hunk of New England schist, Maureen Long is a great person to consult.
Long, the Bruce D. Alexander ’65 Professor and Chair of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is an observational...
Caitlin Gainey and some of her Yale friends spent the summer in Europe hiking in the mountains, strolling through medieval villages — and searching for subatomic particle collisions that few humans have ever seen.
Gainey, a Yale College senior studying...
Researchers discovered what may be a new approach for creating neuropsychiatric drugs, using a virtual library of compounds derived from chemistry developed by a Yale laboratory.
The new drug candidates they’ve identified through this process could lead...