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  1. Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has co-authored a new study with GSAS alumnus Caleb Gordon that offers insights into which animal groups’ evolutionary path brought them from the land and back to water.

    Paleontologist Caleb Gordon takes measurements of ancient turtle bones at the Yale Peabody Museum.  (Photo courtesy of Yale Peabody Museum)
  2. Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Black Studies, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize.

    Matthew Frye Jacobson
  3. In a new study, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Management and of Economics, and co-author Sultan Mehmood analyze newly uncovered satellite imagery of the 1970 Bhola cyclone, and show that the storm affected voting patterns and induced more citizens to take up arms in a guerrilla war that led to the founding of Bangladesh.

    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader of the Awami League, in Dhaka during Pakistan’s 1970 general elections.
  4. A look back at one of the most cited science studies of all time — Sterling Professor of Chemistry William Jorgensen’s landmark 1983 simulations of water.

    William Jorgensen helped redefine drug design with his 1983 water models.  Photo by Dan Renzetti
  5. Using machine learning, postdoctoral researcher Ran Meng and Yale researchers in the lab of Mark Gerstein, Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, have developed a new imaging technique that can unlock signs of aging and disease in human cells.

    Ran Meng and Mark Gerstein
  6. In this edition of Humanitas: FAS music lecturer directs gamelan performances; a new book from Jonathan Howard, Assistant Professor of English and Black studies; Ned Blackhawk contributes to a new PBS documentary; and FAS faculty win numerous prizes.

    Yale gamelan ensemble rehearsal (Photo by Allie Barton)
  7. A company utilizing an approach to capturing disease-causing proteins developed by the lab of Craig Crews, John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry, was recently acquired by Johnson & Johnson.

    Craig Crews
  8. In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Mark Gerstein (Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Computer Science and of Statistics & Data Science) writes that because powerful technologies can become destructive, artificial intelligence companies must be responsible stewards of their creations.

    Mark Gerstein
  9. Elsa Yan, Professor of Chemistry, was recently awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study this phenomenon.

    Elsa Yan and graduate student (Photo by Charlyn Paradis)
  10. David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English and Bryan Garsten, Professor of Political Science and Humanities were among three faculty invested as members of the American Academy of Sciences & Letters during a ceremony this week.

    David Bromwich, Anthony T. Kronman, and Bryan Garsten