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.

For every math and science accomplishment Sidney Richardson has racked up during her four years at Yale, she’s had an equally memorable experience outside of her comfort zone. Co-authoring a ...

For decades scientists have recognized that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a formidable viral pathogen. After years of probing work and extensive experimentation, a Yale research team has ...

A developmental biologist by training, Anne Eichmann never thought about creating a drug or starting a company early in her career. “I was drawn to science just for the fun of understanding how things ...

Speeding up drug discovery in the age of AI may come down to a concept that’s comfortingly old-fashioned: Consulting a chemistry recipe book. It makes perfect sense. Designing a new synthetic molecule ...

When global leaders signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, pledging to limit global warming beneath 2 degrees C, it was widely expected that carbon markets would play a key role in meeting this target.

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Yale’s endowment earned an 11.1% investment return, net of fees, for the year ending June 30, 2025, representing $4.5 billion in investment gains. After providing distributions of $2.1 billion to the ...

It was at a dinner for first-year Branford College students last year that Juan Carlos Gonzalez, now a Yale sophomore, first encountered a particularly accomplished fellow college resident. “I thought ...

Normally, throwing rocks at a problem isn’t the best idea. But in the multi-faceted fight to combat climate change, scientists are finding that crushed rocks judiciously applied to farmers’ fields may ...

COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have ...

In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block construction of the Tellico Dam in ...