Digital preservationists at Yale University Library are building a shareable “emulation as a service” infrastructure to resurrect thousands of obsolete software programs and ensure that the information produced on them will be kept intact and made easily...
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...
On a recent flight, Yale student Paul Meuser turned his head to the side and saw his fellow passengers floating about the cabin.
“That image will stay with me,” he said.
Nothing was amiss. Meuser and two Yale School of Architecture classmates were aboard...
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,...
Alison Gilchrest, who for over a decade has led national and international initiatives to promote collaboration in the field of cultural heritage conservation, has been appointed as the new director of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural...
The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums — living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other — constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth’s biodiversity. Yet, zoos and museums rarely share data with each...
Fish, the most biodiverse vertebrates in the animal kingdom, present evolutionary biologists a conundrum: The greatest species richness is found in the world’s tropical waters, yet the fish groups that generate new species most rapidly inhabit colder...
A few months ago, Chase Brownstein, a Yale undergraduate, and Professor Thomas Near were at odds. Together, the pair had authored a first-of-its-kind study reconstructing the evolutionary history of lampreys — an ancient group of jawless fish — using...
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...