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 ...

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 ...

In March 2020, as COVID-19 began to disrupt life in communities across the world, Yale epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina was working at the University of Texas. As the dimensions of the public health ...

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, ...

Here you’ll find news and features about Commencement 2026 from around the Yale campus, including preview and event coverage, student stories, and related links. This page will be updated throughout ...

Yale University on Thursday announced plans for a historic series of infrastructure investments that would transform the face and trajectory of its School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and ...

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 ...

Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles — may account for all of the dark ...

During its 325th graduation ceremony on Monday, Yale University awarded honorary degrees to eight individuals whose achievements in their fields have benefited the common good. This year’s honorary ...

Initially a musical subculture popular in South Korea during the 1990s, Korean Pop, or K-pop, has transformed into a global cultural phenomenon. Characterized by catchy hooks, polished choreography, ...

On April 19, 1775, British redcoats clashed with colonial militias and minutemen in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, the first military conflict of the American Revolution. Two days ...