Division of Science
Driven by curiosity
The FAS Science division spans the biological and physical sciences. FAS scientists engage in observation of our world and the universe beyond it, laboratory-based experimentation, computational analysis, and the pursuit of questions driven by curiosity about how the world works. Their expertise covers the microscopic and the gargantuan: from the smallest cells, atoms, and particles of matter, to the physical and biological systems that shape life on earth, to the stars and planets.
The divisional dean of Science is Larry Gladney.
Science departments and programs
The FAS is home to three departments in the biological sciences--Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology--and five in the physical sciences--Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics.
News
A catalytic two-step: Transforming industrial CO2 into a renewable fuel
A new study led by a Yale chemist presents a “two-in-one” catalyst that takes waste carbon and turns it into liquid methanol.
Yale physicist to help lead American Physical Society’s nuclear physics division
Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was recently elected the Vice-Chair of the 2025 Executive Committee for the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics.
Natarajan’s work on early black holes celebrated with multiple awards
Natarajan has also been honored with a 2025 Suffrage Science Award from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in the UK for her pioneering contributions to astrophysics.
Yale chemists discover a new method to remove carbon dioxide
In a new study, Yale chemists describe an unusual method for converting carbon dioxide into the industrial compound formate.
Expanding understanding
Curiosity-driven research expands our understanding of the world and underpins virtually all applied research, innovation, and technological development. When researchers in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences follow their curiosity, it takes them down unexplored pathways, for the benefit of future generations.
FAS Science contacts
- FAS Dean of Science; Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development in the FAS; Professor of Physics
- FAS Dean's Office
- Physics
- Senior Associate Dean
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- Assistant Dean
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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