About 20 years ago, one of Katherine McKenzie’s colleagues asked her if she was interested in performing forensic medical evaluations (FME) for asylum seekers. “I didn’t know much about the field, but ...

When Anthony Acciavatti graduated college in 2004, he set an ambitious goal for himself: map the entire Ganges River Basin. The Ganges River flows from the Himalayas across India’s northern plains and ...

Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum “tunneling” behavior of protons that occurs in chemistry, a process so ...

Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has announced the 2026 recipients of its Graduate Mentor Awards, given to four faculty members annually in recognition of their exceptional advising ...

Out in Beinecke Plaza recently, under a bright sun and the intent stares of more than 100 people, you could cut the tension with a knight. Or a hanging rook. After two weekends of strategic gambits, ...

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he’s conducted fieldwork where these parasites live. After one trip to Block Island, off the coast of ...

Five Yale scholars and artists are among the 2026 class of Guggenheim Fellows, a group of 223 individuals working across 55 disciplines. Marlene Daut, Justin Driver, Haruna Lee, Matthew Leifheit, and ...

On a fateful day 210 million years ago, two crocodile cousins about the size of jackals stood side-by-side amid the low ferns of a humid riverbank that would one day become northern New Mexico. One of ...

Soil biologist Eric Slessarev has some advice for conservationists, landscapers, and farmers with fallow fields. Go touch deep-rooted grass. Or better yet, go plant some. Slessarev, an assistant ...

Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry — but it’s also an amazing math problem. At least, that’s how Varun Varanasi ’24 viewed it when he was a Yale ...

For Blake Robertson, the caregiving crisis is deeply personal. As a teenager, he witnessed firsthand his mother’s struggles after she became the primary caregiver of his grandfather after a cancer ...

Beverly Gage grew up just outside of Philadelphia in the suburbs of Delaware County, known as Delco. Throughout her 1970s childhood, she visited Independence Hall, the Philadelphia landmark where the ...