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Three Yalies selected as 2026-27 Schwarzman Scholars

Two current Yale students and a recent graduate of Yale College are among 150 scholars from around the world who have been selected as 2026-27 Schwarzman Scholars, which supports graduate study in ...
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Robert G. Shulman, Yale biophysicist and pioneer of spectroscopy

Robert G. Shulman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM), died on Jan. 11, 2026. He was ...
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In Memoriam: Lawrence Brass, M.D., Yale School of Medicine Neurologist

Lawrence M. Brass, M.D. Lawrence M. Brass, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine neurologist and an internationally recognized expert on stroke who helped lead the largest case control study ever conduced ...
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‘We’re in a better place’: Has the time for a unified global carbon market finally arrived? Dec 16, 2025 13 min read Year in review ...
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Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 ...
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Yale announces $150 million to support leadership in AI

Yale will commit more than $150 million over the next five years to support faculty, students, and staff as they engage with artificial intelligence (AI), the university announced today. “Yale has ...
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Assyria: Chronicling the rise and fall of the world’s first empire

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...
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Immune markers of post-vaccination syndrome indicate future research directions

COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have ...
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A growing number of U.S. adults report cognitive disability

Rates of self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults are on the increase, driven largely by a surprising jump among young adults ages 18 to 39, according to a new Yale study. In their ...
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Partisan media? Cable viewers shift attitudes after changing the channel

Millions of Americans count right-leaning Fox News as their primary source of information about politics and current events. A new working paper co-authored by Yale political scientist Joshua Kalla ...
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‘A tipping point’: An update from the frontiers of Alzheimer’s disease research

One-third of people older than 85 in the United States are estimated to live with Alzheimer’s disease today, according to the National Institute on Aging. The condition’s characteristic long, slow ...
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Study reveals molecular mechanism behind MS and other autoimmune diseases

More than two decades ago, a research team in the lab of David Hafler, a Yale researcher who at the time was at Harvard, discovered a type of T cell in humans that suppresses the immune system; they ...