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  1. 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
  2. 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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  3. 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)
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Karla Neugebauer, a biochemist whose research has revealed new insights into the function of RNA, joined the Yale faculty in 2013.

    Karla Neugebauer
  7. 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
  8. In an interview, Yale’s Yuan Hsiao explains his research on how social networks influence our online and offline behaviors.

    Yuan Hsiao
  9. The Yale-based team, Map of Life Rapid Assessments, will use its prize money to expand its biodiversity work around the world.

    Members of the MOLRA team being transported to the finals testing site by XPRIZE staff. From left to right: Walter Jetz (Yale University), Alex Killion (Yale University), and Nigel Pitman (Field Museum). (Photo: Cat Kutz)
  10. Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Sterling Professor of English, speaks with Sam Needleman of the New York Review of Books about Vermeer, Henry James, and her love of novels and suspense.

    Ruth Bernard Yeazell