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  1. In this edition of Humanitas, a new installation takes over The Dome in Yale Schwarzman Center, a senior lecturer in English will publish a follow-up to her acclaimed first novel, and the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism plans new events and a student working group.

    Photos of art installation at Yale Schwartzman Center
  2. Incoming FAS faculty member Destin Jenkins is documenting the history of debt in the United States and Black governance after the Civil Rights movement.

    Destin Jenkins. Photo credit: Jermaine Jackson, Jr. 
  3. In a Q&A, geochemist Gabby Kitch talks about an innovative Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture project—based in part on science conducted by faculty in the Department for Earth and Planetary Sciences—that will accelerate the oceans’ natural ability to store carbon dioxide.

    Gabby Kitch. Photo credit: Allie Barton
  4. Basu, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Astronomy, speaks with a panel of guests about the role of our sun in human history and what the future holds for our nearest star.

  5. Faced with a microbial mystery hidden deep in the soil, Nikhil Malvankar—Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry—returned to his roots in physics, with results that could shape the field of quantum computing.

    Nikhil Malvankar
  6. Incoming FAS faculty member Elizabeth Parker-Magyar studies the day-to-day politics of public sector workers in Jordan.

    Elizabeth Parker-Magyar
  7. The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies has awarded its distinguished International Book Prizes to Lauren Benton, Barton M. Briggs Professor of History, and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor of English, recognizing their outstanding writing on the topics of global history and empire.

    Headshots of Lauren Benton (left) and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay.
  8. A new study by Yale sociologist Emma Zang links sex-selective abortion bans to negative birth outcomes for Asian immigrant mothers.

    Emma Zang
  9. The Lincoln Center’s season long celebration of Tesori and her work “centers around the theme of making connections—between artists, audiences, and the arts organizations that make up Lincoln Center.”

    Jeanine Tesori poses against a black background. Red text reads: "Lincoln Center Visionary Artist Jeanine Tesori".
  10. In a new study, Yale researchers in the lab of Thomas Near, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, used genomic analysis to show when cavefishes lost their eyes, which provides a method for dating cave systems.

    Photo of Typhlichthys subterraneus (Southern Cavefish), a small, translucent fish. Photo by Alan Cressler (US Geological Survey), licensed CC BY-NC-ND 2.0