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 ...

Bishop William J. Barber II, a moral movement leader and founding director of Repairers of the Breach, which trains social justice leaders, addressed Battell Chapel during Yale’s annual Martin Luther ...

Two Yale College seniors and three recent Yale graduates are among 150 scholars from around the world who have been selected as 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars, which supports graduate study in China.

Chronic pain is a global health challenge, with current treatment options often limited by side effects, addiction risk, and diminished effectiveness over time. In a new study, Yale researchers ...

In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block construction of the Tellico Dam in ...

Nick Turk-Browne, director of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute, has won the National Academy of Sciences’ Troland Research Award for his contributions to experimental psychology. The award, given to ...

The tissue adjacent to a tumor behaves differently than areas farther away: The tumor’s cancerous cells influence their surroundings, blocking the body’s immune defenses and creating a sort of haven ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery, ...

When people contemplate Martin Luther King Jr.’s message to the world today, they recall the uplifting and inspired words of his most famous speeches, says Bishop William J. Barber II. But often lost ...

Kelly Shue, whose academic interests lie at the intersection of behavioral economics and empirical corporate finance, has been appointed the Amman Mineral Professor of Finance, effective immediately.

Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of “modes” within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, ...

Jennifer Gandhi, a political scientist whose work in comparative politics focuses on authoritarian regimes and transitions to democracy, was recently appointed the Howard Wang ’95 Professor of Global ...