Award-winning science journalist Lisa Margonelli will come to Yale on Thursday, Dec. 6 to talk about her recent book, “Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology,” Her talk, titled Small Termites and Big Ideas,” will take place at 4:30 p.m. in...
Vice Provost for Research Peter Schiffer has announced the initial steps being taken to advance key science investment priorities at the university. The announcement follows President Peter Salovey’s response last week to recommendations from the...
On Nov. 30, Earth tones were the order of the day at the 2018 Yale Day of Data.
Earth data of every sort figured prominently at the sixth annual event, held this year at Sterling Memorial Library. It included the latest data from satellites, spectrographs...
“I don’t want students leaving Yale and going through life with a feeling that everything powered by big data and algorithms is a black box,” said Alan Gerber, dean of social science and the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political...
Yale’s new Brain Imaging Center had an appropriate ribbon cutting to celebrate its opening Dec. 17: President Peter Salovey used virtual scissors to cut a virtual ribbon using his mind.
As university speakers lauded the launch of the imaging center on...
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...