Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, is not a household name. Neither is Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology, nor Vera Rubin, a physicist who discovered evidence...
When Avery Sage was a student at New Haven Academy high school, he participated in the Evolutions Afterschool Program (EVO) at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, an experience that he credits with nurturing his passion for science and preparing...
Yale University has announced it will be an anchor tenant at 101 College Street in New Haven, a key project in the city’s effort to become a national hub for the life sciences industry. The university also is supporting a biotech incubator to be located...
Standing under a hot sun with a stainless-steel shovel in hand, Yale President Peter Salovey joined state and local leaders on June 7 to break ground on 101 College Street, an ambitious development project that will bolster New Haven’s rising status as an...
Growing up in Flushing, Queens, Martha Muñoz had a fascination with the natural world but few places to indulge it.
“Imagine being a nerdy little kid obsessed with nature and having so little access to green spaces,” said Muñoz, an assistant professor of...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 35 new colleagues this academic year — a group of world-class researchers and teachers whose work is expanding the horizons of a range of fields, including African American studies, mathematics,...
The Peabody Museum’s revamped collections facility on Yale’s West Campus is a browser’s paradise.
Its rows of compact shelving house the museum’s anthropology and history of science and technology collections, more than 1.5 million items in all. Turn a...
When archaeological scientist Andrew Koh unearths a dusty artifact, say a clay pot or alabaster jar, the last thing he’ll do is clean it.
Archaeologists routinely wash artifacts soon after excavating them to examine their ornamentation and style. For Koh...
Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives contain vast troves of cultural and scientific heritage that fire curiosity and fuel research worldwide. Now there’s a simple new way to make astonishing connections among millions of objects.
Starting...