A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on many butterfly populations worldwide, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

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 ...

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 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 ...

A bagpiper, a mariachi band, and steel drums will join the Concert Band, Glee Club, and pipe organ at the installation ceremony for Maurie McInnis, Yale’s 24th president, taking place Sunday, April 6.

Yale on Monday named Niko Pfund the next leader of Yale University Press. Pfund, who comes to Yale from Oxford University Press, starts July 1. He succeeds John Donatich, who last year announced plans ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Isabel Neal, a poet and teacher from New England, has been named winner of the 2025 Yale Younger Poets award, a prestigious competition that aims to bring greater attention to America’s most promising ...