The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this week honored three junior faculty members for scholarly achievements in their respective fields. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, an assistant professor of ...

The board of trustees will be reviewing Yale’s longstanding precedent of not revoking honorary degrees. The conduct of which Mr. Cosby was convicted today is profoundly disturbing and deeply contrary ...

Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new study of this group of Aedes aegypti ...

As you may have learned from reports in the media, one of the doctoral students who returned recently from a research mission to Liberia was hospitalized in isolation on Wednesday night after ...

Extended-release naltrexone — an injection that decreases heavy drinking in the general population when taken in conjunction with counseling — appears to help HIV-positive individuals reduce their ...

Yale College has received 28,870 applications for the Class of 2016, announced Jeffrey Brenzel, dean of undergraduate admissions. The applicant total, a 5.8% increase over the previous year’s total of ...

A photo from a 2013 performance of "In the Next Room (or, the vibrator play)" by the Yale Dramat. Photo by Ruoxi Yu '15. Students and alumni hoping to explore careers in public service and the arts ...

Obesity and chronic liver disease can be triggered by a family of proteins that alter populations of microbes in the stomach, a discovery that suggests the condition may be infectious, Yale scientists ...

Psychologist Paul Bloom is one of three top Yale scholars whose MOOC starts this month. Following the successful January launch of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) at Yale, three of the ...

High school students who use e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke cigarettes in subsequent years, according to a new Yale University study published Dec. 4 in the journal Pediatrics. Those who smoke ...

When Yale English professor Alanna Hickey designed her first-year seminar “Poetics of Place: Literature In/of Connecticut” it was partly for selfish reasons. It was an opportunity for Hickey, a new ...

The reasons why autism spectrum disorders are almost five times more common among boys than among girls may soon be revealed, thanks to a five-year, $15 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...