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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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In a Q&A, Lecturer in English and Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence Marie-Helene Bertino discusses her new book, Beautyland, which explores an alien’s study of humanity.
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Incoming FAS faculty member Ailong Ke uses genome editing technologies to understand RNA and help develop new treatments for patients with cancer.
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For Robert Gooding-Williams, returning to Yale as a professor represents not only a homecoming, but the opportunity to build an institutional legacy.
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Incoming FAS faculty member Elizabeth Yankovsky blends physics, Earth and planetary sciences, and computer science to model the world’s oceans.
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Using 25 years of genetic and demographic data, Yale researchers shed light on what causes owl monkeys to leave their parents.
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Nicholas R. Jones talks about his upcoming book Cervantine Blackness, charting new methodological terrain, and challenging longstanding interpretations of black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works.
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Physicists at Yale’s Wright Lab have pioneered a new method for detecting dark matter, neutrinos, and other elusive particles using a table-top device.
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FAS faculty member Julián Posada talks about receiving the Just Tech fellowship and writing his upcoming book on the labor practices behind AI.
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Special software designed, built, and tested at Yale is crucial to the success of the new Simons Observatory in Chile.
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In a new book, Yale historian Lauren Benton explores the rampant — and seemingly incessant — small wars that shaped imperial power between 1400 and 1900.