The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named a trio of Yale astronomers among its inaugural class of fellows.
Sarbani Basu, professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy; Debra Fischer, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy; and Meg Urry,...
Brooke Russell is all about big ideas.
Since successfully defending her graduate thesis in December — and becoming the first African-American woman to earn a Yale Ph.D. in physics — Russell has joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in...
Yale geologists have identified the deepest pieces of Earth’s crust ever found in the United States or Canada — in the rolling hills of northern Connecticut.
Tiny bits of quartz and other minerals, inside garnet crystals, tell the story of a tectonic...
Faced with a prolonged disruption due to COVID-19, Yale has taken measures to safeguard its community, establish new protocols for teaching students remotely, and maintain core campus functions and facilities.
University leadership, following the advice...
Yale’s Gregory A. Margulis, widely considered one of the most innovative and influential mathematicians of the past half-century, has been awarded the Abel Prize in Mathematics — among the world’s leading honors in mathematics, along with the Field Medal...
Before scientists develop the bioengineered tissue of tomorrow for treating pulmonary diseases, they need to identify the best methods for growing tissue for artificial trachea and lungs in experiments today.
A new Yale analysis does just that,...
Amid the whirlwind of changes to campus life wrought by the onset and spread of coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19), the Yale Center for Genome Analysis is performing a vital role in the fight against the virus.
The center, located on Yale’s West Campus, is one...
A Yale-led team of doctors has discovered how aortic aneurysms — bulges that weaken the wall of the biggest blood vessel leading to the heart — form in the human body.
Aortic aneurysms lead to about 10,000 deaths a year in the United States. Most of those...
As the world grapples with waves of patients from the coronavirus pandemic, Yale has moved aggressively to make emergency campus housing available for medical personnel on the front lines of the fight against the virus.
By April 3, Yale had prepared 300...
One of the biggest challenges facing scientists, public health experts, and society itself during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to develop an effective vaccine for the virus that causes the disease.
Researchers around the world are racing to develop...