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Deep-rooted grass stores significantly more carbon, new study says

Soil biologist Eric Slessarev has some advice for conservationists, landscapers, and farmers with fallow fields. Go touch deep-rooted grass. Or better yet, go plant some. Slessarev, an assistant ...
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JC Andrews, author of ‘Of an Ilk,’ wins Yale Younger Poets award

JC Andrews, a poet from Springfield, Arkansas, has been named winner of the 2026 Yale Younger Poets award, a prestigious competition that aims to bring greater attention to America’s most promising ...
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Yale’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter honors two celebrated teachers and a long-serving college dean

Two members of the Yale faculty — Roger Howe, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, and Joe Wolenski, a senior lecturer II and research scientist in the Department of Molecular, ...
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From Yale Bulldogs to New York Sirens: Two Yale hockey players are reuniting on the ice

On a recent Saturday night, more than 18,000 fans packed into Madison Square Garden for a sold-out game. They were all there to watch the New York Sirens face off against the Seattle Torrent, as the ...
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In the media

Research by Yale’s Francesco Beghini finds cohabitating couples share bacteria and can make each other healthier because of it ...
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Celebrating Yale 2025

Here you’ll find news and features about Commencement 2025 from around the Yale campus, including preview and event coverage, student stories, and related links. This page will be updated throughout ...
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‘A good death’: How compassionate care helps people navigate the end of life

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...
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At Yale, new neuroscience institute to unravel the mysteries of cognition

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 ...
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Assyria: Chronicling the rise and fall of the world’s first empire

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 ...
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COVID school closures most harm students from poorest neighborhoods

Pandemic-related school closures are deepening educational inequality in the United States by severely impairing the academic progress of children from low-income neighborhoods while having no ...
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Black holes and dark matter — are they one and the same?

Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles — may account for all of the dark ...
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Analysis unlocks secret of the Vinland Map — it’s a fake

The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and conservation scientists at Yale has found compelling new evidence for ...