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  1. Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our democracy through their actions and contributions.

    Portraits of the 2025 Carnegie Corporation Great Immigrants, including Priyamvada Natarajan and Akiko Iwasaki.
  2. In a new study, Yale researchers introduce a new model of human attention that explains how the mind evaluates task-relevant factors in a dynamic setting — and apportions, on-the-fly, computational capacity accordingly.

    People stand in front of a street as a bus passes. Image credit: Adobe Stock
  3. Olha Tytarenko, who last year introduced an on-campus Ukrainian language course for Yale students, is now adding more courses and programs that she says will broaden students’ understanding of the country.

    Collage of Ukranian art, including the cover of a book of poetry by Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of the Babyn War."
  4. Albert Laguna, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration, speaks to Connecticut Public about his upcoming class, "Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics."

    Albert Laguna
  5. Harper, who began his academic career at Yale, had a long career as an important figure in East Asian Studies.

    Thomas Harper
  6. The CORE Score provides a county-level nationwide sense of how Americans experience economic security and opportunity, health, and political efficacy. Its website and infrastructure are moving to Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

    A map of the U.S. drawn from the CORE Score tool, which measures Americans' sense of economic security and opportunity, health, and political efficacy.
  7. A new study co-authored by Yale's Samuel Church, Casey Dunn, Jenn Coughlan, and other scientists sheds light on the biodiversity of the highly poisonous Portuguese Man O’ War—and may help protect beachgoers and surfers.

  8. Faculty Academy, offered by the FAS Dean’s Office SAL2 program, gives FAS faculty the opportunity to teach and take courses with their academic peers.

    Angela Lee-Smith teaching her mini-course, “You Can Learn to Read Korean Over Lunch – Really!” Photo credit: Michaela Herrmann.
  9. Yale astronomers show how the long-term evolution of binary star systems with two planets and two stars can produce something rare: double hot Jupiters.

    AI-generated illustration of a "hot Jupiter," a large, intensely hot planet about the size of Jupiter or Saturn. Image credit: Michael Helfenbein
  10. In a new book co-edited by Yale sociologist Rene Almeling, experts from across several disciplines examine the relationship between sperm, health, and politics.

    A headshot of Rene Almeling alongside the cover of her new co-edited book, "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics."