Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...

Daniel Magaziner first met Omar Badsha in 2013 while in South Africa researching a book on art education under apartheid. Badsha, raised in Durban in a Gujarati Muslim family, was running an archival ...

Two Yale College seniors and three recent Yale graduates are among 150 scholars from around the world who have been selected as 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars, which supports graduate study in China.

Skin fibrosis is an often-painful condition wherein the skin thickens and hardens, making it difficult to move. And with no effective treatments currently available, patients are left with few avenues ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery, ...

Bishop William J. Barber II, a moral movement leader and founding director of Repairers of the Breach, which trains social justice leaders, addressed Battell Chapel during Yale’s annual Martin Luther ...

Happy anniversary, Yale Quantum Institute. It’s time for a cake topped with “entangled” candles that are simultaneously lit and unlit. How else to celebrate a decade of excellence in one of science’s ...

Nick Turk-Browne, director of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute, has won the National Academy of Sciences’ Troland Research Award for his contributions to experimental psychology. The award, given to ...

Kelly Shue, whose academic interests lie at the intersection of behavioral economics and empirical corporate finance, has been appointed the Amman Mineral Professor of Finance, effective immediately.

In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block construction of the Tellico Dam in ...

When people contemplate Martin Luther King Jr.’s message to the world today, they recall the uplifting and inspired words of his most famous speeches, says Bishop William J. Barber II. But often lost ...

As a philosopher, Stephen Darwall has lived much of his life in his head. Over his 40-year career, he has written extensively about fundamental moral philosophy, moral psychology, and ethics. But for ...