It’s 9:50 p.m. and a long line of students is steadily accumulating in the basement of Timothy Dwight College (TD). They’re here for the spring semester opening night of the TD buttery — ...

W. Mark Saltzman, an engineer and educator who has been part of the Yale faculty since 2002, has been appointed the next head of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis announced in ...

Yale University on March 24 announced the eight recipients of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes, one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. The recipients, honored for their ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can’t, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don’t hold onto these experiences because the ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

In the period that would come to be known as fin-de-siècle Russia — a French descriptor that refers to the late 19th and early 20th centuries — Chinese products, art motifs, and imagery became ...

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 ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

Most job candidates know to dress nicely for Zoom interviews and to arrange a professional-looking background for the camera. But a new Yale study suggests they also ought to test the quality of their ...