A handwritten document that is a physical link to the founding of what became Yale College. Keys to historic campus spaces. A collar representing the constellation of schools that make up the ...

In a world filled with sketchy stratagems and bad moves in every direction, the grandmasters of chess stand apart. There are fewer than 2,000 grandmasters worldwide. They play the “royal game” at the ...

Keith Stewart Thomson, a distinguished scholar, scientist, curator, and museum administrator who served as dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) from 1979 to 1986, died on Feb. 21 ...

In 1994, a coalition of experts in brain health and epilepsy published a consensus statement on the appropriate criteria for driver licensing for people with epilepsy. Issued by the American Academy ...

Yale’s capacity to conduct high-performance computing and artificial intelligence-related research continues to expand, thanks to a pair of recent moves aimed at advancing the university’s computing ...

A Yale-led research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism is able to prevent sperm cells from interacting with an egg, preventing fertilization. The discovery, found in ...

In 2013, while a first-year student at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), Dr. Robert Rock found inspiration in the university’s museum collections. He had participated in a workshop at the Yale Center for ...

Breakthroughs in medicine start with research — and lead to better lives. Ask Dr. Kevan Herold of Yale School of Medicine. His team’s work led to approval of the first drug able to delay the onset of ...

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, an itinerant Islamic scholar in West Africa, was taken prisoner during a military conflict and enslaved. About 37 years old at the time of his enslavement, he survived the ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

The world’s demand for alternative fuels and sustainable chemical products has prompted many scientists to look in the same direction for answers: converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide ...

Research has shown that young people who face adversity such as traumatic or stressful events during brain development are 40% more likely to develop anxiety disorders by adulthood. But most people ...