Erik Harms always likes to get to his “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” class 20 minutes early. Like many other Yale instructors, he’ll often lay out materials for his students before each lecture and prepare a set of PowerPoint slides.
Then Harms,...
Yale physicist Helen Caines has arrived at a key juncture in her long campaign to understand the “critical point” and the “strong force” of nuclear matter.
In the subatomic realm, the universe’s tiniest particles, called quarks, combine with other...
Many Americans know more about the violence inflicted upon Native American peoples in the United States than they do about Native survival and influence in the nation’s development, says Yale historian Ned Blackhawk.
In his new book, “The Rediscovery of...
Two Yale faculty members and a Yale-affiliated researcher have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Anna Marie Pyle, Michel Devoret, and Samuel...
Last December, Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore traveled to her native France to help guide an assembly of French citizens charged with reconsidering the country’s laws on euthanasia and assisted dying.
Over the next few months, the assembly of...
Yale is where Amymarie Bartholomew learned to love the lab. Now she gets to pass that feeling forward — while pursuing new science in a lab of her own.
Bartholomew, an assistant professor of chemistry in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, officially...
Yale historian Beverly Gage has been awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in biography for “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century” (Viking), her revelatory book about the controversial FBI director.
In announcing the prize, the Pulitzer...
Yale and the University of Connecticut will use a $1 million planning grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to formally propose Connecticut as a regional hub for quantum-related research, technologies, and jobs.