Rose Prentice, formerly enslaved, was in her mid-sixties when Sarah Goodridge, a noted miniaturist, painted her portrait. Born in 1771, Prentice retained the surname of her second enslaver, John ...

Each year, New Haven’s Integrated Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS), a non-profit that provides relocation assistance to refugees and asylum seekers, holds a “Run for Refugees” 5K road race as ...

Marcia Johnson, Sterling Professor Emerita of Psychology, has won the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science for “developing innovative models of human memory with applications ...

Almost 1,000 investors, entrepreneurs, and scientists gathered May 9 at the Yale School of Management for the Yale Innovation Summit, one of the premier annual showcases for the university’s tech and ...

A pilot program to extend hours at Sterling Memorial Library (SML) and Bass Library has been continued for another year, announced Kimberly M. Goff-Crews, secretary and vice president for student life ...

Michelle Nearon, associate dean for graduate student development and diversity at Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed the first female chair of the board at Bethpage ...

Melissa Barton, curator of drama and prose for the Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale University Press) “Gather Out of Star-Dust” takes as its ...

As part of an ongoing series of conversations with Yale faculty members on the 2016 presidential elections, YaleNews recently met with Kathryn Lofton, professor and chair of the Department of ...

The high levels of obesity in the United States contribute to fatty liver disease, the most common form of liver disease. However, little is known about how obesity causes fatty liver. A new study by ...

Elizabeth H. Bradley, newly named as the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy, focuses her work on strengthening health care systems in the United States and developing countries. Elizabeth H.

Dr. Annita Sawyer’s memoir is a story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered ...

Don’t be fooled by its simplicity — it’s more than a plain wooden box. “It’s a rough-draft room,” says Robert Loweth ’16, of an eight-foot-cubed wooden structure, which more closely resembles a kid’s ...