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The stories of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: the achievements and activities of our faculty, departments, and programs.
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The new members, who have made key contributions in a range of fields, join previously elected fellows in helping to “advance the common good” across the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.
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Two faculty members received Yale College’s oldest teaching award during a ceremony last week, while the longest serving college dean was honored for her support of teaching and learning.
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Eric Slessarev, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the first author of a new study showing that deep-rooted grasses store significantly more carbon than crops with shallow roots, providing important climate benefits.
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For a new book, Beverly Gage, John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History, explores 250 years of American history by traveling to 300 historical sites in 19 states across the U.S.
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Ezenwa, who was elected as a lifelong fellow, researches the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animals.
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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.
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Marlene Daut, Professor of French and of Black Studies, is among four Yale scholars and artists who received 2026 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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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.
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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.
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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.