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Portrait of Jeffrey Alexander
August 21, 2018
A pioneer field of cultural sociology, professor Jeffrey Alexander has been honored with the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory Award.
Portrait of Lisa Lowe
August 21, 2018
Lowe focuses her research and teaching on literatures and cultures that emerge from histories of colonialism, migration, and globalization.
Notched samples of metallic glasses of different fictive temperatures (increasing from left to right) change from brittle to ductile
August 16, 2018
New research into fictive temperatures may help to explain how the properties of metallic glasses depend on their transition from liquid to solid.
Field distribution inside a D-shaped cavity
August 16, 2018
A Yale-led research team has advanced the practical application of high-power lasers by taming their erratic pulsations and chaotic fluctuations.
Photograph of a bird wearing an ICARUS device
August 14, 2018
Yale researchers will be among the first to make use of data gathered by the International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, or ICARUS.
Blueprints of the future Tobin Center for Economic Policy accompained by a picture of James Tobin, after whom the center will be named.
August 9, 2018
Yale has announced the formation of a new research enterprise, the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale, named for the late James Tobin, iconic faculty member and Nobel...
August 9, 2018
Yale paleontologist Derek Briggs was part of a research team that identified a new species of lobopodian, an ancient relative of modern-day velvet worms.