The average life span for Americans hovered around 40 years for the first 100 years of the nation’s existence. But after 1880, breakthroughs in modern medicine and public health resulted in a dramatic ...
Yale research saves lives, bolsters national interests, and strengthens the economy. In countless communities across America, it serves infants born with heart defects, prevents and slows the ...
The story of Yale University is inseparable from the story of the United States. When colonial leaders signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, ...
What the immune system does when you’re not sick — and why it matters for aging Jun 26, 2026 From School of Medicine Innovation ...
In 1562, Cardinal Giovanni de Medici, a scion of the dynastic family that dominated politics and banking in Tuscany during the Renaissance, died of malaria. Twenty-five years later, his older brother, ...
A Yale-led project — aided by a national community of researchers — has reached the next step in its effort to develop the first large-scale, error-correcting quantum computer. More than a year ago, ...
As the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis worldwide, norovirus is an all too familiar ailment. Its telltale digestive upset — not to mention its reputation for being notoriously contagious — has ...
The state of Connecticut is investing in a new training program, to be developed by The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School (YLS), which will provide local law enforcement with techniques for ...
A program led by the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall (YPEI) and the University of New Haven (UNH) awarded degrees to 11 graduates during a recent ceremony at the Danbury Federal ...
For her doctoral dissertation, Yale’s Nathalie Alomar decided to study a small amphibian that appeared to have eluded the forces of evolution. She found that there is more to its evolution than meets ...
Mariko Silver ’99 has been elected to serve as an alumni fellow of Yale’s Board of Trustees, known formally as the Yale Corporation, in a worldwide balloting of university graduates. She begins a ...
Why what works in one place doesn’t always work elsewhere: Rethinking ‘external validity’ Jun 12, 2026 From Institution for Social and Policy Studies Honors ...