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The American Society of Criminology recognized Anderson for his pioneering ethnographic research on urban crime.
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Stephen R. Anderson, Dorothy R. Diebold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, who taught at Yale from 1994 until his retirement in 2017, died October 13, 2025 in Asheville, North Carolina.
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In a new study, Yale researchers in the lab of David Breslow, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, identified a pathway that allows cells to “disassemble” their cilia before division — and found a possible connection to a neurological disorder.
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In a new course taught by Todne Thomas and Nicholas Jones, students are taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study of tarot—a divinatory medium practiced by fortune-tellers, artists, and the curious for centuries.
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A global competition to combine AI with climate solutions has named a project led by Elizabeth Yankovsky, Assistant Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, as one of two Yale-related projects among its winning ideas.
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From playwriting to investigative journalism to graphic fiction, Yale offers a multitude of courses in creative writing. The following video, featuring graphic novelist and Professor in the Practice Alison Bechdel, is the first in a series about teaching — and learning — how to write at Yale.
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Reina Maruyama, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Karsten Heeger, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, are members of CUORE alongside Yale research scientists, postdoctoral students, graduate students, and international collaborators.
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This fall, a popular undergraduate course on invertebrate biology taught by Casey Dunn, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has been reinvented as a hands-on, field research experience on one of the region’s Thimble Islands.
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New FAS faculty member Harry McNamara is combining developmental biology, neurobiology, and biophysics to answer basic science questions about how cells communicate.
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Malaker, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received the award from the ACS's division of Carbohydrate Chemistry & Chemical Glycobiology. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to research in carbohydrate chemistry conducted by scientists in the first seven years of their independent career.