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  1. Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning welcomed Watertown High School seniors for a panel discussion about an online video collection, "Yale en primera persona: Narrativas hispanas," created by Lourdes Sabé, Senior Lector I of Spanish.

    Students from Watertown High School (Connecticut) visit the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.
  2. A Yale-led study in the lab of Thomas Near, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, describing a new Southern cavefish species provides strong evidence that new species can arise in organisms adapted to live only underground.

    CT scanning revealed that the skull of the new species, Typhlichthys styx, features the remnant of an orbital bone, pictured above in red, that is distinct from other Southern cavefish species.  Image courtesy of the researchers.
  3. A Yale-led analysis of millions of animal movements reveals how the mere presence of people, not just landscape change, can reshape how species use space and environment, with implications for conservation efforts.

    A white-tailed deer outfitted with a GPS tracking device peers into an automated camera trap in Staten Island, New York. Photo credit: Dave Kenny
  4. A Yale-led study co-published by Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Professor of Anthropology, finds that Azara’s owl monkeys have gotten heavier as temperatures rise — a result that defies long-standing expectations about how animals adapt to warm climates.

    Two Tangeine Ouragans sit in a tree. Photo © Tangerine-Ouragan productions.
  5. "Unfolding History,” a new exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum curated by Egyptologist Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, was recently featured in the New Haven Independent.

    Victoria Almansa-Villatoro (Photo by Allie Barton)
  6. For a new study, Christopher Lynn (Assistant Professor of Physics), who normally probes the complexity of thousands of neurons acting in concert, flips his perspective to look at behaviors of individual neurons.

    Illustration showing a neuron, center, embedded in an artificial neuron network.  AI-enhanced image courtesy of Christopher Lynn
  7. Research from the lab of John Carlson, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, was profiled by Meteored UK.

    Shimaa Ebrahim, associate research scientist, holds up a bottle containing garlic cloves. Photo credit: Anna Schroll
  8. Gundula Kreuzer, Professor of Music, spoke to the New York Times about the history behind the stage curtains at London's Royal Opera House and the role of the house curtains in opera.

  9. A paper co-authored by Costas Arkolakis, Professor of Economics, used data from Connecticut on travel patterns and charging station locations to identify charging locations that would maximize total driver welfare.

  10. In a course taught by Pauline Lin, a senior lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures, students examine China’s relationship with natural landscapes over time.

    Pauline Lin (center) points to a map surrounded by a group of undergraduate students. Photo credit: Andrew Hurley