In India, much of the population breathes air that is 10 times more polluted than what the World Health Organization considers safe. In a study released April 15 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, ...

Maurie McInnis was installed Sunday as Yale University’s 24th president — a role she officially assumed in July — during a tradition-filled ceremony in Woolsey Hall. It was the first inauguration of a ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

In the fight against antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) superbugs, an important weapon may just be hiding in some polluted stream, in some remote village that lacks adequate sewage infrastructure, or in a ...

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: ...

Not even quantum objects can be in this many places at one time. But that’s the beauty of Quantum Week at Yale (QWAY), an annual event offering programming for all levels of interest in quantum ...

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 ...

Peter Raymond, the Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry at Yale School of the Environment (YSE), has been appointed co-director of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC), a university hub ...

Yale President Maurie McInnis has convened a Committee on Trust in Higher Education that will seek to better understand public perception of colleges and universities and explore ways of strengthening ...

Three of Yale’s most esteemed historians will team up next fall to teach a course exploring the nature of American identity from 1776 to the present as part of the 2025 DeVane Lecture course, an ...

A Yale psychologist who launched an initiative that provides mental health care to individuals after incarceration, two community leaders who are working to keep Black history alive in New Haven, and ...

As Yale celebrated the inauguration of Maurie McInnis as its 24th president last weekend, some of its most prominent faculty members convened to reflect on the pillars of the university’s mission that ...