Nobel laureate Michael Woodford ’80 J.D. reflects on how the intellectual freedom that pervaded Yale Law School set him on a path to becoming one of the world’s leading economists.

Smith, a national leader in public health, received the forum’s Elga R. Wasserman Courage, Clarity, and Leadership Award this week.

During her first year as a Yale student, author Leigh Bardugo ’97 was walking home from the post office when she stumbled upon a mysterious, marble building across the street from Grove Street ...

Yale commemorated its 325 years on Oct. 9 with events that highlighted history and celebrated community. By mid-afternoon, the lawn at Cross Campus filled with faculty and staff, students and their ...

Back in high school, you probably learned about “the plague,” the rare bacterial infection that killed tens of millions of people during what became known as the “Black Death,” a devastating pandemic ...

For two decades, Yale anthropologist Richard Bribiescas, a leading expert on human evolutionary biology, has collaborated with scholars at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland — the country’s ...

When humans write sentences or solve math problems, they are thinking symbolically — each number, variable, or word is expressed by a symbol. While AI chatbots do not “think” that way, if prompted, ...

Concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) — its regulation, energy consumption, and production of misinformation — are under much active public debate. Yet one area of concern has received ...

Data-intensive social science is a key academic priority at Yale, with an emphasis on the application of empirical methods and data to public policy issues and matters of social concern. In the ...

Anthony “Tony” Reno, the Joel E. Smilow Head Coach of Yale Football from 2012 until February 2026, died on Oct. 2 at his home in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He was 52.

Three hundred and twenty-five years ago, in early October of 1701, Connecticut’s governor and representatives assembled in general court in New Haven to pass “An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate ...