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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yale College seniors Elizabeth Dejanikus and Madeline Levin — neither of whom identify as techies — are poised to contribute to the academic literature on the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A Yale-led team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic rarity: a super-sized galaxy with nine concentric rings. Officially known as LEDA 1313424, the “Bullseye” galaxy got its rings about 50 million ...

Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...

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 ...