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The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies has awarded its distinguished International Book Prizes to Lauren Benton, Barton M. Briggs Professor of History, and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor of English, recognizing their outstanding writing on the topics of global history and empire.
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A new study by Yale sociologist Emma Zang links sex-selective abortion bans to negative birth outcomes for Asian immigrant mothers.
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The Lincoln Center’s season long celebration of Tesori and her work “centers around the theme of making connections—between artists, audiences, and the arts organizations that make up Lincoln Center.”
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In a new study, Yale researchers in the lab of Thomas Near, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, used genomic analysis to show when cavefishes lost their eyes, which provides a method for dating cave systems.
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Nicole Sheriko, Assistant Professor of English, offered faculty mentorship to this year's Summer Dissertation Writing Program. Co-sponsored by the Graduate School and the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, the program helps students develop sustainable writing habits beyond their dissertation projects.
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A study co-authored by Shiro Kuriwaki, Assistant Professor of Political Science and faculty fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, examined two decades of major issues that animated the congressional agenda.
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Three esteemed historians will team up this fall to teach “America at 250: A History” as part of the 2025 DeVane Lecture course, an annual lecture series that is open to the public at no charge.
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James Mayer and Scott Miller are winners of American Chemical Society awards for physical organic chemistry and creative catalysis.
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Incoming FAS faculty member Nancy Yousef explores the interplay between Romantic literature, the philosophers who shaped them, and the thinkers who came next.
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De La Cruz will serve a three-year term beginning February 2026.