Yale University today announced a female-dominated slate of recipients for the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, including seven women, were honored for their literary achievement or promise and will receive $165,000 each to support their...
After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Jack Stewart ’51 B.F.A. attended Yale University on the G.I. Bill, which provided federal education benefits to millions of veterans.
Stewart studied at the Yale School of Art under Josef Albers and...
Working memory, the ability to hold a thought in mind even through distraction, is the foundation of abstract reasoning and a defining characteristic of the human brain. It is also impaired in disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Now...
At a time when public health is on everyone’s mind, Yale’s first lady and alumna Marta Moret was honored for a lifetime of efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of fellow community members, especially the underserved.
Moret received the 2020 Spirit...
Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, has devoted years to investigating how social networks affect our health and behavior. His work offers insight into how to track and address epidemics like the current...
As the new chair of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Paul Messier oversees research at the intersection of science and the humanities.
Established at Yale’s West Campus in 2013, the IPCH aims to preserve and interpret...
All cells, like all people, need “quiet” time to function properly, and this is particularly true of T cells, one of the immune system’s main weapons. They must be ready for activation at all times, and primed to divide more rapidly than almost any cell...
Three people and a robot form a team playing a game. The robot makes a mistake, costing the team a round. Like any good teammate, it acknowledges the error.
“Sorry, guys, I made the mistake this round,” it says. “I know it may be hard to believe, but...
Dirt and dirtiness are ubiquitous — but the ways we conceive of it vary in ways both cultural and personal. In her new book, “Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos” (Duke University Press), Yale English Professor...