Seven members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
They are:
Phillip Atiba Goff, who studies the science of racial bias and discrimination through analysis of...
It’s just possible that artificial photosynthesis is right around the corner.
Photosynthesis is the natural process by which sunlight splits water molecules into oxygen, protons, and electrons and reduces carbon dioxide down to carbohydrates. Artificial...
Lightning strikes — perhaps a quintillion of them, occurring over a billion years — may have provided sparks of life for the early Earth.
A new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Leeds contends that over time, these bolts from the blue...
This summer, a popular Yale program that provides undergraduates with valuable mathematics research experience will undergo some intriguing addition of its own.
For the first time, the Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research at Yale (SUMRY) program will...
Hungarian mathematician László Lovász, an emeritus professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and co-recipient of the prestigious 2021 Abel Prize in mathematics, is renowned for his work combining math with algorithmic and computer science theory....
A Yale astronomy fellow’s star power just received a boost.
Rachael Roettenbacher has been named a 51 Pegasi b Fellow by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The prestigious fellowship, which is named for the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star...