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  1. An ancient object that Assistant Professor of Classics Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.

    Curse tablet from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. A new study by Yale political scientist Josh Kalla shows that experts performed little better than chance in identifying effective political messaging.

    Political pros no better than public in predicting which messages persuade
  3. In an interview, Yale linguist Simon Charlow discusses the interplay between linguistics and artificial intelligence.

    Simon Charlow
  4. Marisa Bass, Professor of History of Art, discusses her new book, The Monument's End: Public Art and the Modern Republic.

    Marisa Bass
  5. Brandon Ogbunu's public science writing earned him a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications.

    Brandon Ogbunu
  6. Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has helped identify ancient “gold” bug fossils as a new species of arthropod.

    This life reconstruction image shows Lomankus edgecombei in what would have been its natural marine environment. (Illustration by Xiaodong Wang)
  7. An 1866 photograph of objects kept by soldiers at an infamous prison offered a glimpse of wartime horrors. Jennifer Raab's new book reexamines the haunting relics.

    “Relics of Andersonville Prison” (left) is an 1866 photograph of objects left behind by prisoners held at the notorious Andersonville Prison (bottom right) during the Civil War. The objects were collected and arranged for the photo by Clara Barton (top right), shown here as photographed by the studio of Mathew Brady. (“Relics of Andersonville Prison” courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Barton portrait: U.S. National Archives; Andersonville Prison: Library of Congress)
  8. In a new study, a Yale sociologist examines the ways U.S. immigration law forces migrant children to make hard choices while journeying across Mexico.

    Young migrants in Mexico City
  9. Modifi Biosciences, a Yale University spinout company formed in 2021, has developed a novel class of small molecules that target cancer cells lacking expression of a key DNA repair protein.

    Modifi Biosciences
  10. Kaivan Munshi, a global leader in the field of economic development, joined the Yale faculty in 2019.

    Kaivan Munshi