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...
President Peter Salovey has announced the reappointment of three heads of residential colleges: Mary Lui at Timothy Dwight (TD), Thomas Near at Saybrook (SY), and Catherine Panter-Brick at Morse (MC). They will begin their new five-year terms on June 30.
Yale’s Gregory A. Margulis, widely considered one of the most innovative and influential mathematicians of the past half-century, has been awarded the Abel Prize in Mathematics — among the world’s leading honors in mathematics, along with the Field Medal...
Yale geologists have identified the deepest pieces of Earth’s crust ever found in the United States or Canada — in the rolling hills of northern Connecticut.
Tiny bits of quartz and other minerals, inside garnet crystals, tell the story of a tectonic...
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named a trio of Yale astronomers among its inaugural class of fellows.
Sarbani Basu, professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy; Debra Fischer, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy; and Meg Urry,...
Physicists from Yale are looking deep beneath a mountain in central Italy for proof of how matter was created in the universe — and a new batch of data is narrowing the search.
The Yale researchers, part of an international collaboration called the...
This month in Insights & Outcomes, Yale scientists take a deep dive into thermodynamics, discover a new drug to treat seizures, and unify the algebra of … everything.
As always, be sure to keep tabs on the latest research news in the Science &...
Following a key recommendation from a major university report on Yale’s science priorities, the university will consider developing a state-of-the-art building that is intended to transform the pursuit of quantum science, engineering, and materials...
A Yale-led study turns up the heat on a key question about dinosaurs’ body temperature: Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
According to a new technique that analyzes the chemistry of dinosaur eggshells, the answer is warm.
“Dinosaurs sit at an...