Patients with private health insurance face a serious risk of being treated and billed by an out-of-network doctor when they receive care at in-network hospitals, according to a new study by Yale researchers. Addressing the issue could reduce health...
Donald Trump’s anti-immigration views were a feature of his 2016 presidential campaign. To what extent was his unexpected victory driven by voters’ anger over immigrants moving into their neighborhoods, attending their children’s schools, or working in...
Jeffrey Brock, Joanne B. Freeman, and Catherine Panter-Brick were appointed to endowed professorships.
Brock, named as the Zhao and Ji Professor of Mathematics, focuses his research on low-dimensional geometry and topology, particularly hyperbolic...
In studying the forces that divide Americans along racial lines, Yale sociologist Grace Kao examines two universal desires that bind us — friendship and romance. Her new book, “The Company We Keep,” explores how young people form interracial friendships...
Elisa Celis doesn’t see any reason why artificial intelligence (AI) can’t reflect a society’s best values, as well as its commercial interests.
It’s the idea at the heart of her efforts as a data scientist: Fairness and inclusion can be written into...
Poverty, not war-related trauma, drives cognitive deficits in young people displaced by conflict, according to a new Yale-led study of adolescents affected by the crisis in Syria.
The study, published in the journal Child Development, is the first to...
A new, Yale-led study examines shifts in fertility behaviors among Generation X women in the United States — those born between 1965-1982 — compared to their Baby Boomer counterparts, and explores whether the fertility of college-educated women is...