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December 15, 2015
Two Yale political scientists are among the recipients of the inaugural Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science, which recognize the importance of transparency in...
December 15, 2015
What can a few months of computer science do for you? Judging by the final projects of students in “Introduction to Computing and Programming,” it can lead to everything from...
December 15, 2015
Yale is the only university to create an interdisciplinary program based in computer science in which students take an equally substantive track in one of Yale’s arts...
December 14, 2015
James M. Mayer, newly named as the Leon I. and Helen Dickson Ross Professor of Chemistry, is a scientist whose interests span the fields of inorganic, materials, bioinorganic...
December 14, 2015
The decision to be generous or not arises from a specific process in the amygdala, a tiny structure deep in the brain long associated with emotions such as fear, according to...
December 14, 2015
A Yale team spent the last part of November in the Galapagos gathering dozens of giant tortoises that carry the DNA of extinct species that used to roam two islands in the...
December 14, 2015
Camille Lizarríbar, currently the residential college dean of Ezra Stiles College, has been named the dean of student affairs and senior associate dean in Yale College,...