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Brandon Ogbunu's public science writing earned him a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications.
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Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has helped identify ancient “gold” bug fossils as a new species of arthropod.
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An 1866 photograph of objects kept by soldiers at an infamous prison offered a glimpse of wartime horrors. Jennifer Raab's new book reexamines the haunting relics.
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In a new study, a Yale sociologist examines the ways U.S. immigration law forces migrant children to make hard choices while journeying across Mexico.
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Modifi Biosciences, a Yale University spinout company formed in 2021, has developed a novel class of small molecules that target cancer cells lacking expression of a key DNA repair protein.
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Kaivan Munshi, a global leader in the field of economic development, joined the Yale faculty in 2019.
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Robert Gooding-Williams is a major figure in the contemporary philosophy of race and a leading historian of Black modern social and political philosophy.
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Noël Valis, a leading scholar and translator of Spanish literature, was appointed the Kingman Brewster, Jr. (B.A. 1941) Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
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Yihong Wu, whose work lies at the intersection of high-dimensional statistics, information theory, and computer science, joined the Yale faculty in 2016.
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Casetti was recognized for his book Screening Fears: On Protective Media.