Here, Yale News spotlights a few of the exceptional members of the Yale College Class of 2026, a group whose accomplishments and contributions have strengthened the Yale campus and the world beyond.

Azara’s owl monkeys, a small primate species found in South America, are heavier today than those that lived a quarter-century ago, and evidence suggests that rising temperatures might have driven the ...

As a joyous parade of soon-to-be graduates snaked toward Yale’s Old Campus, where family and friends awaited the formal start of Commencement on the storied grounds, Adam Walker took a moment to soak ...

Zaida Rio Polanco, a singer-songwriter who put out a solo album of indie folk-inflected pop-soul songs in high school, stepped away from music-making as a first year at Yale and shifted her artistic ...

Each year at Class Day, held the Sunday before Commencement, soon-to-be graduates from Yale College gather for a festive celebration featuring a notable speaker (this year, the author Min Jin Lee ’90) ...

More than five years ago, Yale Environmental Humanities was launched as a platform to highlight and support the emerging interdisciplinary conversation, across departments and schools, about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yale University and the Government of Peru reached a historic accord in November 2010 for the return to Peru of the archaeological materials excavated by Hiram Bingham III at Machu Picchu nearly a ...

The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Here’s a look at the man who founded the School of Medicine department that eventually became YSPH. In 1915 when ...

Present and future students at Yale University’s drama school will no longer pay tuition, thanks to a landmark $150 million gift from entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen, the ...

In cases of opioid use disorder, short-term medically managed withdrawal (commonly known as detox) and long-term rehabilitation treatments that don’t incorporate continued use of buprenorphine or ...