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  1. As Tamar Gendler completes her tenure as inaugural dean of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, peers and colleagues reflect on the impact of her leadership.

    FAS Dean Tamar Gendler during a reception in her honor on Dec. 2. (Photo by Ian Christmann)
  2. In a new book, Yale anthropologist Dove argues that a more holistic approach to the study of natural history would help counter growing skepticism of science.

    Michael Dove and the cover of his book, Hearsay is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History
  3. Tylus, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature, was inducted into one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious scholarly academies.

    Jane Tylus receiving a handshake from the Lincei's president, Prof. Roberto Antonelli, as well as a pin of a lynx and a certificate.
  4. Historian Alexander Ekserdjian discusses how his fascination with the classics started when he was a child and why he’s particularly drawn to sacred objects.

    Alexander Ekserdjian
  5. Marlene L. Daut has been named a co-winner of the twenty-sixth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

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  6. Scholars and music-industry insiders recently gathered at Yale to discuss the social and cultural significance of K-pop.

    Sociologist Grace Kao and Yale’s Council on East Asian Studies hosted a conference featuring scholars who study the social and cultural influence of K-pop and prominent figures in the K-pop industry. (Photos by: Stephanie Anestis)
  7. This year, over 60 faculty joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences — here, three new arrivals discuss their scholarship and hopes for teaching.

    Martina Dal Bello
  8. Salovey, a world-renowned scholar and leader in the study of emotional intelligence, recently completed a distinguished 11-year term as Yale’s president.

    Peter Salovey
  9. Karla Neugebauer, a biochemist whose research has revealed new insights into the function of RNA, joined the Yale faculty in 2013.

    Karla Neugebauer
  10. Yale researchers find paleontological origins of the way modern birds navigate the world when they’re not in flight.

    Thumbnail of a Yale News video featuring two Yale paleontologists discussing