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  1. Ezenwa, who was elected as a lifelong fellow, researches the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animals.

    Vanessa Ezenwa
  2. Brendan A. Shanahan, Associate Research Scholar in the MacMillan Center and Lecturer in History, reveals in his award-winning book how state-level policies shaped the meaning of citizenship in the United States and continue to inform today’s debates over immigration and belonging.

    Author Brendan A. Shanahan book cover image
  3. Marlene Daut, Professor of French and of African American Studies among four Yale scholars and artists who received 2026 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

    Clockwise from top left, Marlene Daut, Justin Driver, Matthew Leifheit, and Collier Schorr  Credit/Source: Daut portrait by Dan Addison/Supplied, Driver portrait by Harold Shapiro/Yale Photo, Leifheit portrait by Sam Clarke/Supplied, Schorr portrait by Collier Schorr/Supplied
  4. Valis will be one of 40 summer residents welcomed to the National Humanities Center campus, where she will work on a new book project about Federico García Lorca and Luis Cernuda.

    Noël Valis
  5. New Haven is Yale’s home, but our impact is felt nationwide — in every state across America, in communities large and small. Explore Yale's impact across America with this interactive map.

    Map of the United States of America
  6. A new framework put forward by Joel Flynn, Assistant Professor of Economics, and co-authors shows how uncertainty and real world constraints break traditional models and offers a more realistic theory of pricing inflation and productivity.

    Interaction between vendor and customer purchasing fresh produce
  7. Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is part of a team of researchers that have identified a 210-million-year-old crocodile relative from New Mexico as a distinct species, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa.

    210 million years ago, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (left) is disturbed by Hesperosuchus agilis (right) near a Coelophysis carcass at what will become modern-day Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.  Illustration by Julio Lacerda
  8. The center, which will hold a conference on campus April 16-17, acts as a hub to connect scholars across disciplines and encourage collaboration and conversation.

    WHC Director Cajetan Iheka at the weekly Fellows Forum. Photo credit: Whitney Humanities Center.
  9. Inspired by an undergraduate science class, a new study co-authored by a Yale alum and Jun Korenaga, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, uses math to suggest that the spark of life on Earth happened quickly — once the conditions were right.

    Illustration of clear molecules underwater. Credit: Michael S. Helfenbein
  10. Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis recognized four recipients of the college’s annual teaching prizes—who span all three divisions of the FAS—during a campus reception.

    Top row, Elleza Kelley and Julia Leonard. Bottom row, Jorge Méndez‑Seijas and Sigrid Nachtergaele. Photos courtesy of Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.