The ant came in a small vial of ethanol, sealed in a plastic bag, and packed in a small cardboard box. It was addressed to Yale’s Douglas B. Booher.
German entomologist Phillip Hoenle had discovered the ant, which he noted had some peculiar features, in a...
Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
They are:
Keith Baker, a particle physicist known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson...
Mariana Di Giacomo regularly peers into the menacing orange eye of a Tyrannosaurus rex. She checks the ancient predator’s dagger-like teeth and inspects his grayish scales.
As the Peabody Museum of Natural History undergoes a full-building renovation, the...
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...
As the new chair of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Paul Messier oversees research at the intersection of science and the humanities.
Established at Yale’s West Campus in 2013, the IPCH aims to preserve and interpret...
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....
While a crewmember on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit indulged his passion for photography.
Between 13-hour shifts performing maintenance work on the station and conducting experiments, Pettit pointed cameras out the station’...
Yale University and the Botín Foundation will co-host the inaugural International Conference on Creativity, Emotions, and the Arts from Oct. 9 to 11 at the Botín Centre in Santander, Spain.
Forty-two experts from 11 countries will share the latest...