Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new study of this group of Aedes aegypti shows they originated in Florida and, unlike their...
For Yale’s David Post, it is the unintended consequence of his research and training project in Africa that may have the most lasting impact.
Post, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, heads a research laboratory that is giving Yale students and...
An image created in the Yale lab of Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, assistant professor and assistant curator in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, has won a BioArt Competition award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
The...
When Daniel Harrison, the Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory in the Department of Music, wants to demonstrate what tonal theory — his particular area of expertise — is, he doesn’t turn to a blackboard. Instead, he sits down at a piano.
Harrison, who...
With unfortunate frequency, Crystal Feimster has found herself having to rethink her first day of class lecture for her course “The Long Civil Rights Movement” to respond to incidents of civil unrest in the United States. The first year she taught the...
One of the goals — and challenges — of “Internet Cultures,” a new teaching and learning initiative on campus, is to explore the unknown and unknowable. In fact, the term “internet cultures” often ends up in quotation marks because it is so malleable,...
For Kathryn Lofton, professor of religious studies, American studies, and history, many moments in her most recent book, “Consuming Religion,” were informed and inspired by her interactions with Yale College and graduate school students and by inviting...
In early December, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear a case about a bake shop owner’s refusal to create a cake for a same-sex couple because making it was against his religious convictions as a conservative Christian.
The Masterpiece...
The On Dec. 10, 2017 at Battell Chapel, the Yale Symphony Orchestra and the Yale Glee Club performed Handel's “Messiah”, featuring an audience sing-along during the iconic “Hallelujah” chorus.
Jeffrey Douma conducted along with Marguerite Brooks, Joseph...