News

Open book on a table
December 4, 2018
Core courses in English now include four seminars designed “to offer the best and the most balanced introduction to the traditions of writing in English.”
Six pictures, three on top and three on the bottom. From left to right, the top row consists of a pictures depicting a bifurcation on a highway, the second a mounatain covered in snow, and the third a city landscape where a tower and some tall buildings can be seen. The bottom row contains the same pictures but with a graph superimposed showing where eyes point to when people look at these pictures.
December 4, 2018
Using brain measurements, researchers have predicted how people’s eyes move when viewing natural scenes, an advance in understanding the human visual system.
Image of a surface composed of many subunits oriented northward.
December 3, 2018
A flake just one atom thick has provided scientists at Yale with new insight into a promising material for the next generation of high-speed electronics.
Portrait of Frederick Douglass
November 27, 2018
Blight and Coates will discuss Blight’s new biography of abolitionist Frederick Douglass in a book conversation on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 4:30 p.m.
Portraits of Charles Ahn, Richard G. Bribiescas, Christopher G. Burd, and Dragomir Radev
November 27, 2018
Charles Ahn, Richard G. Bribiescas, Christopher G. Burd, and Dragomir Radev have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Picture of the ankles of the David
November 26, 2018
The 2018-19 issue of Yale Engineering is now available. Here you can see the latest exciting news from the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. 
A microscopic comparison between normal skin and scarred skin.
November 22, 2018
Variations in cells called fibroblasts may explain why skin regeneration is less robust in older people and how certain types of scars form, says a new study.