Peter Salovey announced today that this academic year will be his last as Yale’s 23rd president, and that he will return to the faculty full time after 11 transformative years as head of the ...

An international team of scientists, including Yale researchers, has described a new Colobus monkey species inhabiting high forest canopies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is just the ...

Yale University and the City of New Haven today reconfirmed their historic, three-century partnership for a new generation, announcing a six-year commitment that increases the university’s annual ...

Yale University and the Government of Peru reached a historic accord in November 2010 for the return to Peru of the archaeological materials excavated by Hiram Bingham III at Machu Picchu nearly a ...

The National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced it will establish a provisionally named “New College” that in 2025 will merge Yale-NUS College with NUS’s University Scholars Programme, a ...

One-third of people older than 85 in the United States are estimated to live with Alzheimer’s disease today, according to the National Institute on Aging. The condition’s characteristic long, slow ...

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 ...

This week Yale’s office of undergraduate admissions announced a new policy on standardized testing for first-year and transfer applicants. After four years with a test-optional policy that allowed ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine. The law can be a complicated thing, even for seemingly simple matters. Wondering if the oak tree in your front yard is in violation of ...

Since it was first composed by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago, “The Odyssey” has been reimagined countless times. From Greek drama to contemporary poetry, from Stanley Kubrick to the Coen brothers, the ...

Since its discovery by modern researchers a century ago, an ancient structure known as the “Christian building” has become widely considered the cornerstone of early Christian architecture.