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  1. In a Q&A, Yale’s Stephen Darwall discusses his philosophical analysis of heartfelt phenomena — and the difference between attitudes of the heart and the will.

    A portrait of Stephen Darwall alongside the cover of his book, The Heart & Its Attitudes.
  2. An undergraduate seminar taught by astrophysicist Meg Urry adds an artistic dimension to scientific concepts of time and space.

    Meg Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, examines art from the perspective of astrophysics with seminar students.
  3. Bozovic was recognized by the MLA for her book Avant-Garde Post–: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union.

    Marijeta Bozovic and the cover of her book, Avant-Garde Post– Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union.
  4. Freudenburg was honored for his 2022 book, Virgil's Cinematic Art: Vision as Narrative in the Aeneid.

    Kirk Freudenburg
  5. Yale researchers deliver insights into a pair of spiky sea creatures, the use of AI triage, and brain connections in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease.

    A virtual reconstruction of Punk ferox, highlighting the ancient mollusk’s top-of-the-body spikes (purple).
  6. Zadeh was most recently awarded the 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies by the Modern Language Association.

    Travis Zadeh and the cover of his 2023 book, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book that Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
  7. Giammei's book was honored by the Modern Language Association and the American Association for Italian Studies.

    Alessandro Giammei and the cover of his book, Ariosto in the Machine Age.
  8. In the field and in the lab, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Lidya Tarhan is deepening our understanding of early evolution and uncovering ancient organisms in Earth's sedimentary record.

    Lidya Tarhan
  9. A new study shows that the snail darter, a tiny fish that was the focus of a legal battle that gave teeth to the Endangered Species Act, is not a distinct species.

    A new study shows that the snail darter, a tiny fish (pictured) that was the focus of a legal battle that gave teeth to the Endangered Species Act, is not a distinct species.