Economic development is often measured at the national level, yet many of the activities that generate growth occur through firms. Businesses invest in labor, capital, and technology, and their improved productivity helps increase profits and wages, boosting economic activity and raising living standards. As firms advance, they often trade on foreign markets – which can amplify growth and development, both within their country and throughout the global economy.

To some students in high school and middle school, 3D printing, robotics and other STEM skills may seem out of reach. But a group of students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is working to change that.

During a three-day conference, Yale researchers shared and grappled with initial discoveries about the university’s entanglements with slavery.

Yale physicist Bonnie Fleming and her co-researchers investigate anomalies in experimental data for traces of a yet-to-be-discovered subatomic particle.

A major renovation at Yale’s West Campus concluded this fall with the expansion of the Energy Sciences Institute (ESI) into consolidated space adjacent to the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

A Yale-led team of astronomers pioneers a new technique for observing the surface of stars, making it easier to detect Earth-like planets orbiting them.

Michael Della Rocca (Philosophy), Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Chemistry), and Gary Tomlinson (Music and Humanities) have been appointed to Sterling Professorships, Yale’s highest honor.

Musicologist Gary Tomlinson has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Music and of Humanities, effective immediately.

Wright Lab assistant professor David Moore, along with three colleagues from other institutions, recently proposed a novel idea of using trapped electrons and ions—technologies that are being developed as qubits for quantum computation—as ultra-sensitive particle detectors that may be able to enhance the search for the nature of dark matter, neutrinos, new forces, and more.

Michael Della Rocca has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Philosophy, effective immediately.