Last fall, the Yale Peabody Museum had a surplus of cigar boxes — dozens of them. It’s not that folks there were lighting up stogies left and right, though. The boxes had served a scientific purpose: ...

Maurie McInnis ’90 M.A., ’96 Ph.D. will be symbolically inducted as Yale University’s 24th president on Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Woolsey Hall, 500 College St. Inauguration events will also include ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies, has named eight Yale faculty members as incoming fellows. It is Yale’s largest ...

A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on many butterfly populations worldwide, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of ...

One of the big hurdles in locating other Earth-like planets in our galaxy is the difficulty of cutting through all the “noise” — light distortion from stars. For astronomers, deciphering and filtering ...

In the days leading up to the inauguration of President Maurie McInnis, more than a dozen events, held on campus and across New Haven, celebrated through service the important connection between Yale ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

Mutations in BRCA2 — a gene known to repair damaged DNA and suppress tumor formation — can predict an individual’s predisposition to develop breast cancer, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic, and other ...

Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions has completed its review of first-year applications and offered admission to 2,308 of the 50,228 students who applied to be part of Yale College’s Class of ...

The renowned English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner is celebrated as “the painter of light” for the masterly ways he depicted sunlight in his landscapes and seascapes. “The play of light is integral ...

Isabel Neal, a poet and teacher from New England, has been named winner of the 2025 Yale Younger Poets award, a prestigious competition that aims to bring greater attention to America’s most promising ...

Yale on Monday named Niko Pfund the next leader of Yale University Press. Pfund, who comes to Yale from Oxford University Press, starts July 1. He succeeds John Donatich, who last year announced plans ...