Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...

Daniel Magaziner first met Omar Badsha in 2013 while in South Africa researching a book on art education under apartheid. Badsha, raised in Durban in a Gujarati Muslim family, was running an archival ...

Bishop William J. Barber II, a moral movement leader and founding director of Repairers of the Breach, which trains social justice leaders, addressed Battell Chapel during Yale’s annual Martin Luther ...

Skin fibrosis is an often-painful condition wherein the skin thickens and hardens, making it difficult to move. And with no effective treatments currently available, patients are left with few avenues ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery, ...

As a philosopher, Stephen Darwall has lived much of his life in his head. Over his 40-year career, he has written extensively about fundamental moral philosophy, moral psychology, and ethics. But for ...

Kelly Shue, whose academic interests lie at the intersection of behavioral economics and empirical corporate finance, has been appointed the Amman Mineral Professor of Finance, effective immediately.

Chronic pain is a global health challenge, with current treatment options often limited by side effects, addiction risk, and diminished effectiveness over time. In a new study, Yale researchers ...

In February 1942, a 12-year-old girl escaped a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Belarus. A champion swimmer, she coated herself in goose fat and swam under ice to evade guards before fleeing into a ...

Yale researchers are sifting through a mosaic of cells in a living animal — both normal cells and mutated cells — to better understand how cancer grabs a foothold. But they’re starting by studying ...

Martina Droth, an art historian and curator who has served in a series of prominent roles at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) over 16 years, will be the museum’s next Paul Mellon Director, Yale ...

The tissue adjacent to a tumor behaves differently than areas farther away: The tumor’s cancerous cells influence their surroundings, blocking the body’s immune defenses and creating a sort of haven ...