Tso-Ping (T.P.) Ma, the Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics and pillar of the SEAS community for nearly 50 years, passed away peacefully on April 6, 2021, at the age of 75, after a brief illness.

By creating 3D models of dinosaur inner-ear bones, Yale paleontologists were able to shed light on how they behaved, and when they began to fly.

A new species of ant will be named after Jeremy Ayers, a mutual friend of Yale researcher Douglas B. Booher and R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, as well as Warhol.

A Yale-led study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems with fire.

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.