Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson regularly organizes and conducts scientific fieldwork in Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa where she and her colleagues discover and analyze evidence of early human activity.
She considers the opportunity...
Two Yale faculty members have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Sociologist and physician Nicholas Christakis and chemist James Mayer are...
A new study co-authored by Yale sociologist Nicholas A. Christakis demonstrates that tapping into the dynamics of friendship significantly improves the possibility that a community will adopt public health and other interventions aimed at improved human...
A new study co-authored by a Yale economist provides evidence that insufficient antitrust enforcement in the U.S. hospital sector is contributing to reduced competition and higher prices for hospital care.
The study, conducted in collaboration with...
Mental illness costs the U.S. economy $282 billion annually, which is equivalent to the average economic recession, according to a new study co-authored by Yale economist Aleh Tsyvinski.
The first-of-its-kind study integrates psychiatric scholarship with...
This story is the latest in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty later this year.
To understand how people moved around during the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale sociologist Emma Zang needs data —...
Seven Yale faculty members are among the 188 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2024 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Ned Blackhawk, Marta Figlerowicz, Ben Hagari, Elizabeth Hinton, Tavia Nyong’o, Douglas...
Reading aloud to children through a community-based volunteer program significantly boosted levels of life satisfaction in Syrian refugee women living in Jordan, providing them a tangible sense of fulfillment, agency, and human dignity, according to a new...