Yale undergraduate Henry Jacob had planned to spend last summer sifting through archives in the United States and Canada researching a proposed senior thesis on the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secretive militant group that sought to form a slave...
A federal district judge has invalidated sweeping restrictions the Trump administration sought to impose on the H-1B “specialty worker” visa program that Yale and other research universities rely on to hire foreign faculty members, postdoctoral fellows,...
Climate change presents an unprecedented public health emergency and the global healthcare sector is contributing to the worldwide crisis, argues Jodi Sherman, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology at the Yale School of Medicine in a commentary...
The Yale University Art Gallery recently received a gift from the Friday Foundation of six paintings and drawings by Mark Rothko and Franz Kline — artists who profoundly influenced 20th-century American art and the work of future generations.
The gift...
Spring is thesis season at the Yale School of Art (SoA) — an opportunity for students to showcase their capstone projects after two years of intensive training and artistic development. Typically, the annual thesis exhibitions draw crowds to the school’s...
Confined to the Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland, a man named Joseph W. found solace in the songs of his friend, Jankele Herszkowicz, who gained acclaim as the “ghetto troubadour.”
“For everyone who came into the ghetto, he composed a song...
Yale’s campus is always evolving to serve the university’s mission. Buildings go up, come down, and transform — even during the pandemic. Yale soon will introduce several impressive new spaces for thinking, studying, relaxing, and finding inspiration....
A Yale-led study reveals that new medicines and vaccines approved for use in the United States are often unavailable in countries that hosted their clinical trials, suggesting that the benefits of drug research are not being shared equitably among...
Yale University has announced it will be an anchor tenant at 101 College Street in New Haven, a key project in the city’s effort to become a national hub for the life sciences industry. The university also is supporting a biotech incubator to be located...
Standing under a hot sun with a stainless-steel shovel in hand, Yale President Peter Salovey joined state and local leaders on June 7 to break ground on 101 College Street, an ambitious development project that will bolster New Haven’s rising status as an...