Martin Hägglund has been appointed the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, effective April 17.
Sarbani Basu has been appointed the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Astronomy, effective April 17.
Matthew Frye Jacobson, who studies race in America, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History, effective April 17.
Alan Mikhail, an authority on Middle Eastern history, has been appointed the Chace Family Professor of History, effective April 17.
Wilhelm Schlag has been appointed the Phillips Professor of Mathematics, effective April 17.
Eric J. Sargis and Carla Staver have been appointed director and associate director, respectively, of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
A team of Yale scientists have recently joined the research and development effort by the international ArgonCube collaboration.