April 2021 News

April 27, 2021
Three Yale affiliates are among the 36 distinguished scholars and leaders elected to the American Philosophical Society at its April meeting. Two are FAS affiliates: Sterling...
April 26, 2021
Fourteen Yale faculty members who work across a range of disciplines are among the 252 newest members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
April 26, 2021
Alison Sweeney’s lab focuses on the evolution of biological soft matter and the mechanisms by which they assembled themselves over time. Understanding those mechanisms...
April 21, 2021
Swing voters in battleground states delivered Donald Trump his unexpected victory in the 2016 presidential election, suggests a new study coauthored by Yale political...
April 20, 2021
Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
Photograph of Kurt Zilm
April 20, 2021
Kurt Zilm, a world recognized leader in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, has been named the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Chemistry. His...
Photograph of Michael Veal
April 19, 2021
Michael E. Veal, whose scholarship and teaching address musical topics as well as themes of aesthetics, technology, and politics within the cultural sphere of Africa and the...