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Student-designed ‘village’ transforms lives for local educators in New Haven

The tenant of a newly built residence on a woodsy ridgeline in New Haven’s Fair Haven Heights neighborhood will sleep in the treetops. A picture window in the bedroom offers views, through ...
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Pushing boundaries: Yale-affiliated projects are winners in climate solutions/AI challenge

A pair of projects that are leveraging Yale research to address the global climate threat — a game-changing forecasting system for marine carbon dioxide removal strategies and a new approach to ...
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For ‘preeminent’ economic historian, the road to the Nobel began at Yale

Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking ...
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Teaching writing at Yale: Alison Bechdel

From playwriting to investigative journalism to graphic fiction, Yale offers a wide range courses in creative writing. And many of these courses are taught by professors in the Faculty of Arts and ...
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Stress makes life’s clock tick faster — chilling out slows it down

Scientists in recent years have developed ways to measure biological age by tracking chemical changes in DNA that occur naturally as people age but occur at different times in different people. These ...
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Wilkinson named dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Yale political scientist and vice provost Steven Wilkinson will be the next dean of the university’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Strobel announced on ...
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In ROTC ceremony, Yale honors its ‘next generation of leaders’

Yale recognized the Air Force, Naval, and Army ROTC graduates who now join the ranks of the U.S. armed services during the university’s annual commissioning ceremony on Monday. During the ceremony, ...
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Earning a degree, and a sense of freedom

As processional music played, university leaders and faculty entered the graduation hall, dressed in the regalia that signified their academic achievements and fields of study. Then came the seven ...
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Yale to change Calhoun College’s name to honor Grace Murray Hopper

Yale President Peter Salovey announced today that the university would rename Calhoun College, one of 12 undergraduate residential colleges, to honor one of Yale’s most distinguished graduates, Grace ...
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With new $140+ million Yale pledge, Yale, New Haven promote growth, economy

Yale University and the City of New Haven today reconfirmed their historic, three-century partnership for a new generation, announcing a six-year commitment that increases the university’s annual ...
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Left-handed people more likely to have mental disorders like schizophrenia

Being left-handed has been linked to many mental disorders, but Yale researcher Jadon Webb and his colleagues have found that among those with mental illnesses, people with psychotic disorders like ...
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At Yale, new neuroscience institute to unravel the mysteries of cognition

The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams. It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike ...