A team of Wright Lab researchers from the Yale High Energy Neutrino Physics group, including associate research scientist Domenico Franco and graduate students Lee Hagaman and Giacomo Scanavini, have recently joined the research and development (R&D) effort for a new detector technology that is being developed for use by the international ArgonCube collaboration.

New study shows presidents intentionally leave positions vacant or fill them with interim appointees, who help wield authority without Senate confirmation.

Yale Physics is pleased to welcome 35 new graduate students, including 18 women, 17 men, and 7 students from underrepresented minorities (URM) to our department. This includes 12 international students from 6 countries. This class has already started making history with the highest percentage of women and URM students of any incoming Yale Physics class.

David Evans and Laurie Santos have been reappointed to new five-year terms as the heads of Berkeley and Silliman colleges, respectively.

Gage ’94 B.A., a professor of history and American studies, is one of four individuals nominated to the council by President Joe Biden.

This spring, the Graduate School Alumni Association sponsored the first of the new Alumni Conversations program, with the inaugural talk featuring the History of Art Department. The Zoom session was hosted by GSAA board members and department alumni Carmen Bambach ’81, ’88 PhD, and Stephanie Grilli ’80 PhD, and was spearheaded by department chair Tim Barringer. It introduced alumni to current students, new faculty members, ongoing curricular initiatives, and to the recently opened facilities for object study and laboratory of conservation at West Campus.

Tropical cloud forests exist in 60 countries, account for less than a half of 1% of all land mass on Earth, but are home to 15% of the world’s known species.

This video was created by Haruko Nakamura, Yale’s librarian of Japanese Studies, and Dylan Siegel ’21 M.A. a graduate student in East Asian Studies.

Dean Tamar Gendler has announced that Steven Wilkinson will serve as acting FAS dean of social science for a one-year term, through June 2022, pending approval.

Historian David Blight, art historian Mary Miller, and Yale Board of Trustees and former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi were elected in April.