Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Tamar Gendler on Friday appointed Larry Gladney as FAS Dean of Science and Kenneth Scheve as FAS Dean of Social Science, pending formal approval by the Yale Corporation.
Gladney, a renowned physicist who works at...
Two Yale faculty members, economist Mira Frick and chemist Sarah Slavoff, have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships.
The two-year, $75,000 fellowships are awarded in eight scientific and technical fields: computer science, neuroscience,...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 35 new colleagues this academic year — a group of world-class researchers and teachers whose work is expanding the horizons of a range of fields, including African American studies, mathematics,...
The Peabody Museum’s revamped collections facility on Yale’s West Campus is a browser’s paradise.
Its rows of compact shelving house the museum’s anthropology and history of science and technology collections, more than 1.5 million items in all. Turn a...
The year 2020 was a year unlike any other.
Just weeks into the year, COVID-19 upended life as we knew it — at Yale, in Connecticut, across the country and the world. As the enormity of the challenge became apparent, members of the Yale community scrambled...
Seven Yale faculty members are among the artists, intellectuals, and prominent leaders newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for innovative accomplishments in their fields.
“The new members of the class of 2020 have...
A four-generation Yale family has created a permanent endowment for Yale University Library’s Center for Science and Social Science Information — a gift that will support key university initiatives in the sciences and social sciences. The center, which...
Putting together a list of top Yale stories for any year can be a daunting task — especially when you have more than 1,600 to choose from (that’s how many we published on YaleNews in 2019) and when each documents something about Yale that makes us proud....