Four junior faculty members in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been honored for pioneering scientific or humanities research in their scholarly fields.
Jennifer Allen, an associate professor of history, received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman...
Growing up in Flushing, Queens, Martha Muñoz had a fascination with the natural world but few places to indulge it.
“Imagine being a nerdy little kid obsessed with nature and having so little access to green spaces,” said Muñoz, an assistant professor of...
One of Earth’s greatest mysteries is how it transformed itself, ever so gradually, from a barren ball of rock into a launching pad for life.
Earth scientists have spent decades piecing together the relevant clues — identifying and studying the planet’s...
As a woman of color in a male-dominated field, biomedical engineer Anjelica Gonzalez strives always to remind — and sometimes convince — students that anyone can make a career in science and technology.
For her efforts to promote inclusion and belonging...
For the first time, astronomers have observed a cosmic boomerang effect — streams of heavy, molecular gas that are stripped away from a distant galaxy only to circle back and return later.
Astronomers at Yale and Arizona State University led the research...