News

March 31, 2016
Professor Jeff Powell is part of a team of scientists that are working on mapping the DNA of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in efforts to reduce the impact of the diseases that...
March 31, 2016
Professor Rick Prum’s lab research group is featured in an article in Science Magazine today.  The recent paper, “Smithornis broadbills produce loud wing song by...
March 29, 2016
Congratulations to Yale EEB Assistant Professor Carla Staver who has been selected as an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in recognition of her...
March 22, 2016
Jeffrey Townsend spoke at the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on Coupled Human and Environmental Systems at the National Academy of Sciences, on the topic of “Climatic and...
March 22, 2016
Ewen Calloway of Nature News interviewed Jeffrey Townsend regarding his research recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the somatic...
February 4, 2016
Sorry, Explorers Club, but woolly mammoth is no longer on the menu. Neither is the giant ground sloth. A Yale-led analysis has shown that a famous morsel of meat from a 1951...
Members of the team included Nikos Poulakakis, Luciano Beheregaray, Adalgisa Caccone, Joshua Miller, and Cladio Ciofi. (Photo by Jane Braxton Little)
December 14, 2015
A Yale team spent the last part of November in the Galapagos gathering dozens of giant tortoises that carry the DNA of extinct species that used to roam two islands in the...