The average life span for Americans hovered around 40 years for the first 100 years of the nation’s existence. But after 1880, breakthroughs in modern medicine and public health resulted in a dramatic ...
On April 19, 1775, British redcoats clashed with colonial militias and minutemen in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, the first military conflict of the American Revolution. Two days ...
What the immune system does when you’re not sick — and why it matters for aging Jun 26, 2026 From School of Medicine Innovation ...
Why what works in one place doesn’t always work elsewhere: Rethinking ‘external validity’ Jun 12, 2026 From Institution for Social and Policy Studies Honors ...
Judy Collins Songwriter and performer Judy Collins will perform at Yale University September 20, 2006, at 7 p.m. in a benefit concert—“An Evening with Judy Collins”—to support Women’s Health Research ...
The story of Yale University is inseparable from the story of the United States. When colonial leaders signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, ...
This video features Paul Cleary, dean of the Yale School of Public Health; Rafael Perez-Escamilla, director of the Global Health Concentration at the school; and Unni Karunakara, former International ...
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 ...
Nathan Chen ’24 has skated in arenas around the world — from Stockholm’s Globen, the largest hemispherical building on Earth, to Osaka’s Municipal Gymnasium, which is built entirely underground. But ...
The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams. It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike ...
When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies — faculty member Kevin van Bladel’s thoughts returned to ...
Decades of research has shown that limits on calorie intake by flies, worms, and mice can enhance life span in laboratory conditions. But whether such calorie restriction can do the same for humans ...