Embracing the idea that human engagements with the natural world are profoundly shaped by culture, ethics, history, politics, and the arts is one of the central tenets of a new collaborative initiative at Yale.
Launched by faculty and graduate students,...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will host the 2017 Yale Mineral and Gem Symposium on Saturday, Oct. 21, featuring presentations by a diverse lineup of experts in the field.
Bruce Oreck, former U.S. ambassador to Finland, is the keynote speaker...
Yale associate professor of Linguistics and Diagnostic Radiology Kenneth R. Pugh is the recipient of the prestigious Method to Extend Research in Time, or MERIT Award, bestowed by the National Institutes of Health. The award provides support for research...
A group of Yale undergraduate students visited Princeton University Art Museum with scholars from the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage to analyze photographs by 19th-century pictorialist Clarence M. White prior to their exhibition...
In today’s world, cultural heritage — a term Yale University President Peter Salovey referred to as “the essential record of humanity” — is increasingly under attack by threats ranging from climate change, terrorism, theft, mass tourism, and war. Historic...
In a new study, Yale researchers have described how nervous systems and immune systems talk to each other to control metabolism and inflammation. Their finding furthers scientists’ understanding of why older adults fail to burn stored belly fat, which...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will participate in a venture to essentially create a digital encyclopedia providing free virtual access to detailed anatomical scans of vertebrate specimens from 16 U.S. museums and institutions, as well as the...