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  1. Koelle, a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry who has been recognized for teaching excellence, will begin a five-year term on July 1.

    Michael Koelle
  2. In a new study, Yale physicists demonstrate a new way to manipulate quasiparticles —quantum objects often used to study cutting-edge quantum technology concepts.

    Image of white, cartoon-style horse (left) next to a similar white horse (right). The horse on the right is a unicorn surrounded by a cloud as a person sits atop it. Image credit: Alan Tsidilkovski with assistance from AI generative tools.
  3. In a new book, Yale’s Marlene Daut follows the remarkable trajectory of Christophe’s life and Haiti’s transition from enslaved colony to free Black nation.

    A headshot of Marlene L. Daut alongside the cover of her book, The First & Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
  4. Neta Alexander, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, studies the relationship between technology, society, and our bodies.

    Neta Alexander. Photo credit: Natan Dvir
  5. Bentley Layton, the Goff Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and a field-transforming scholar, died on March 26.

    Bentley Layton
  6. Mountaintops contain many of the world’s most diverse clusters of butterfly species, according to a new study. But climate change may turn those habitats into traps.

    Photo of a butterfly sitting atop a spiky pink flower. The butterfly, Vanessa cardui, is also known as a cosmopolitan. It is mostly white, with brown and black spots and a touch of orange on the upper area of its wings. Photo credit: Stefan Pinkert
  7. The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected eight Yale faculty members as part of its latest class of fellows.

    Headshots of Yale faculty named AAAS fellows: top row, from left: Craig Roy, David Hafler, Leonard Milstone, and Ruth Montgomery. Second row, from left: Thomas Near, Karla Neugebauer, William Nordhaus, and Jeffrey Townsend.
  8. In a new book, FAS assistant professor Jinyi Chu shows how Russian modernists turned to Chinese art forms to expand their understanding of the universal.

    Headshot of Jinyi Chu next to the cover of his book, Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal.
  9. A new study shows that poor audio quality in videoconferencing negatively affects listeners’ judgments of the people speaking.

    Screenshot of a video featuring Brian Scholl, Professor of Psychology in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
  10. Infants can encode specific memories, a new Yale study shows, suggesting “infantile amnesia” might be a memory retrieval problem.

    Nick Turk-Browne (left) preparing a child participant and parent for an infant MRI study in the Brain Imaging Center (now BrainWorks) at Yale University circa 2021. Photo credit: 160/90