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Since President Salovey announced Yale’s enhanced focus on Africa in his inaugural speech, there have been a number of exciting developments on campus and on the continent. Yale was selected […]

Reading a story about democracy in The Economist a few weeks back, Yale senior Sophia Clementi was struck by a sentence in the article stating that young people are less

Where and how you live strongly influences both the type and number of microbes you carry on your hands, according to a new international study led by scientists at Yale

A robotics engineer, an award-winning actress and director, a Syrian peace activist, a 2012 candidate for president of Iceland, and 12 other multitalented, global leaders have been named 2014 Yale

Transition away from fossil fuels toward new alternatives is not going smoothly. Proponents of alternatives confront a powerful industry with longstanding incentives and favorable tax policies, suggests analyst Will Hickey.

Aaron Dhir, Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor of Law, talks about Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity. Professor Dhir is a faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada. He is currently at

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 President

In the years after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its last assessment report, in 2006, a few scientists not involved in writing the reports made the case

Demographers are often called upon to predict the future by extrapolating from population statistics and trends. The United Nations has revised population projections upward, and demographer Barry Mirkin suggests the

Yale Global Health Leadership Institute announced the three winners of the first annual photo contest open to Yale students. To be eligible, the original photos had to “capture the essence