Sunil Amrith, a historian who explores the intersection of human migration and global environmental history with a focus on South and Southeast Asia, has been appointed the Henry R. Luce Director of ...

A new lecture series hosted by Yale President Maurie McInnis will commence on Wednesday, Feb. 19 with a talk by Raj Chetty, a renowned Harvard economist who uses “big data” to study the science of ...

It’s 10:30 a.m. at Commons and the smell of roasting chicken is in the air. The smell of about 140 roasting chickens, to be precise. That’s how many birds the rotisserie station typically goes through ...

Jack Callahan, senior vice president for operations, plans to retire this year, after nearly a decade of leadership at Yale, President Maurie McInnis announced on Tuesday. Callahan — who is the first ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...

International aid workers deliver crucial assistance to populations in crisis situations, but their voices are largely absent from the public discourse about issues confronting the humanitarian sector ...

Dr. Nancy J. Brown, the Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of Medicine and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale, has been reappointed for a second term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon — using a cellular platform that they developed ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Bacteria in the gut have been implicated in autoimmune diseases, like lupus, that don’t primarily affect the gastrointestinal system. But how those bacteria affect the human immune system remains ...

The tragedy known as the Bojayá massacre happened in a small fishing village situated on the banks of the Atrato River, in the Afro-Colombian Pacific region of Colombia. In May 2002, two warring ...

Yale College, the undergraduate school of Yale University, will increase its class size by 100 students per year beginning this fall with the entering Class of 2029, university leaders said Tuesday.