Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore has a soft spot for shy people — the wallflowers least likely to seek or desire power. She believes shy people should play a bigger role in governing. In fact, ...

Recipients of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowships — prestigious, two-year fellowships awarded to some of the most promising early-career researchers in the United States and Canada — include a trio ...

British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) describes his new work, “Mrs Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of South Carolina,” which was created especially for the exhibition “Enlightened ...

T. Kyle Vanderlick has been appointed Dean of Engineering and the Thomas E. Golden Professor of Engineering at Yale, President Richard C. Levin announced today.

As processional music played, university leaders and faculty entered the graduation hall, dressed in the regalia that signified their academic achievements and fields of study. Then came the seven ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

Since the end of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied exclusively by whites. They have received mixed ...

Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles — may account for all of the dark ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic people across the world have adopted increasingly digital lifestyles. They stream movies, attend Zoom meetings, and sweat through online exercise classes. Many of them, ...

In 2016 psychiatrist Benjamin Kelmendi was treating two patients with severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at a Connecticut mental health center when the patients abruptly ...

The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Here’s a look at the man who founded the School of Medicine department that eventually became YSPH. In 1915 when ...