Four faculty members — Ardis Butterfield, Grace Kao, Robert Stepto, and Harrison Zhou — have been appointed to endowed professorships.
Ardis Butterfield, named the Marie Borroff Professor of English, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research is on...
“The Artist’s Eye: Figurines of the Paleolithic,” an art exhibition featuring sculptures by Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh that pay homage to some of the first three-dimensional representations of the female form ever discovered, will open Aug. 11 at the Yale...
William “Bill” Nightingale ’53, an active alumnus of Yale for 65 years, recently donated his collection of more than 300 cartoon books to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
The Beinecke Library has long held interesting and important books...
Creative partners Jennifer Newsom ’01 BA, ’05 M.Arch. and Tom Carruthers ’05 M.Arch. of the Minneapolis-based firm Dream the Combine won this year’s PS1 Young Architects Program Competition at MoMA PS1 in Queens. The outdoor environment they conceived and...
Yale researchers have provided a new explanation for why Earth’s early climate was more stable and warmer than it is today.
When life first evolved more than 3.5 billion years ago, Earth’s surface environment looked very different. The sun was much weaker...
Several gene mutations have been linked to Parkinson’s disease, but exactly how and where some of them cause their damage has been unclear. A new Yale study, published in The Journal of Cell Biology, shows that one of the genes whose mutations are...