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  1. Artist and scholar Royce K. Young Wolf joins the Yale community as the second Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation.

  2. Amin Karbasi, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Mehraveh Salehi (Ph.D. ’19, Electrical Engineering) won second place at Nokia’s Bell Labs Prize ceremony Tuesday for their work on understanding how information flows in the human brain based on different cognitive tasks. The team says their innovation makes a concrete connection between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence.

  3. Stewart, a Yale Jackson Institute fellow and former diplomat, gives insight into the challenges facing Afghanistan and the future of diplomacy in the region.

  4. Finding the right elements to make metallic glasses is a time-consuming task. A team of researchers has devised a way to dramatically reduce the amount of time that it takes.

  5. Yale sociologist Anderson receives criminology’s highest award for his groundbreaking studies of life and violence in inner-city African American communities.

  6. A new Yale study investigates what types of public health messages are most effective at convincing people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

  7. Nancy Levene, a philosopher whose research involves religious studies, political theory, literature, and the arts, and has focused on the ethical implications of our notions of modernity, has been appointed the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Religious Studies.

  8. Economic development is often measured at the national level, yet many of the activities that generate growth occur through firms. Businesses invest in labor, capital, and technology, and their improved productivity helps increase profits and wages, boosting economic activity and raising living standards. As firms advance, they often trade on foreign markets – which can amplify growth and development, both within their country and throughout the global economy.

  9. To some students in high school and middle school, 3D printing, robotics and other STEM skills may seem out of reach. But a group of students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is working to change that.

  10. During a three-day conference, Yale researchers shared and grappled with initial discoveries about the university’s entanglements with slavery.