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For this new architecture project, a key design element was dignity

The tenant of a newly built residence on a woodsy ridgeline in New Haven’s Fair Haven Heights neighborhood will sleep in the treetops. A picture window in the bedroom offers views, through ...
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The aerosol dilemma: How fighting pollution affects climate change

The World Meteorological Organization’s fifth annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin, issued in September, called attention to the effects of air pollution on climate change and human and ecosystem ...
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For ‘preeminent’ economic historian, the road to the Nobel began at Yale

Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking ...
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Yale’s Michel H. Devoret wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

Michel H. Devoret, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University, who has spent a career probing the intricate dynamics of qubits and quantum information, has won ...
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School of the Environment

YSE experts to share pathways to progress at NYC Climate Week Sep 17, 2025 From School of the Environment More news from School of the Environment ...
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Meeting the mental health needs of formerly incarcerated people

An estimated two in five people who are incarcerated have a history of mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Most receive no treatment for their mental health issues ...
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Yalies in the Mississippi Delta: Bringing AP STEM classes to rural schools

It’s mid-afternoon on a hot summer day in Mississippi, and Matt Dolan ’82 has assembled a small army of promising high school students at Mississippi State University in Starkville for some academic ...
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In ROTC ceremony, Yale honors its ‘next generation of leaders’

Yale recognized the Air Force, Naval, and Army ROTC graduates who now join the ranks of the U.S. armed services during the university’s annual commissioning ceremony on Monday. During the ceremony, ...
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Scientists discover how a naturally occurring mechanism hampers fertility

A Yale-led research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism is able to prevent sperm cells from interacting with an egg, preventing fertilization. The discovery, found in ...
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A catalytic two-step: Transforming industrial CO2 into a renewable fuel

Yale scientists have taken a critical next step in creating a scalable process to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and “recirculate” it as a renewable fuel. In a new study published in the ...
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Yale to increase undergraduate enrollment

Yale College, the undergraduate school of Yale University, will increase its class size by 100 students per year beginning this fall with the entering Class of 2029, university leaders said Tuesday.
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Reshaping Yale for a new wave of quantum physics, engineering and materials

Future generations of Yale quantum scientists, engineers, and physicists likely won’t know the details of the monumental effort underway today to reshape the upper slope of Science Hill on campus. But ...