Among the people striving to increase the number of talented students from underrepresented backgrounds at Yale are the staff and fellows at the Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity (OGSDD), who recruit, advise, and mentor students as...
Boris Berman and Daphne Ann Brooks were appointed to endowed professorships.
Berman, named as the Sylvia and Leonard Marx Class of 1954 Professor in the Practice of Piano, is a renowned pianist who has performed in more than 50 countries on six continents...
A Yale-led team of researchers is doubling down on its earlier finding of a galaxy with almost no dark matter.
In 2018, the researchers published their original study about galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 — DF2 for short — the first known galaxy to contain little or...
For her pioneering work in computer science, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D. has been dubbed the “queen of code” by her biographers. Yet, beneath that crown was the brain of a mathematician, according to an article in Notices of the American...
Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov is best known today for his 1859 novel “Oblomov,” an inventive satire of the waning Russian nobility, embodied in its title character, who is so sedentary and slothful that “Oblomovism” is still synonymous with “laziness.”...
Katarzyna Chawarska, Veneeta Dayal, and Jane Tylus were appointed to endowed professorships.
Chawarska, named as the Emily Fraser Beede Professor of Child Psychiatry, is a leading expert in research on identifying early diagnostic markers and novel...