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  1. A new study led by a Yale chemist presents a “two-in-one” catalyst that takes waste carbon and turns it into liquid methanol.

    This image shows the working mechanism of the newly designed “dual-site” catalyst turning CO2 into CO and then into methanol. Credit: Wang Lab
  2. Yale theoretical physicist A. Douglas Stone is the first Yale faculty member to win the Max Born Award for excellence in optics research.

    A. Douglas Stone
  3. This is the first time the Yale Review, edited by FAS Professor in the Practice Meghan O'Rourke, has been named a finalist in two award categories for the American Society of Magazine Editors annual awards.

    A headshot of Meghan O'Rourke next to the cover of the Winter 2024 issue of the Yale Review magazine, which features metallic silver high-heeled boots against a red backdrop.
  4. Edwards, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the FAS, will serve as acting director of the Yale Peabody Museum while director David Skelly takes a one-year leave from his role to pursue research at Yale-Myers Forest.

    Erika Edwards
  5. Amrith, a historian who explores the intersection of human migration and global environmental history, will begin his new role on March 1.

    Sunil Amrith
  6. A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years.

    AI-generated image of a giant hand dipping an acidity test strip into the ocean near an active volcano.
  7. FAS Professor Shawkat M. Toorawa’s new book is a curated English translation of Qur’anic verses that evokes the literary qualities of the original Arabic in fresh, living, lyrical prose.

    Shawkat Toorawa
  8. Nakhimovsky, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, discusses the surprising history of a nineteenth-century political project.

    Isaac Nakhimovsky
  9. A team of synthetic biologists have re-written the genetic code of an organism using a novel cellular platform for producing new classes of synthetic proteins.

    A team of synthetic biologists have re-written the genetic code of an organism using a novel cellular platform for producing new classes of synthetic proteins.
  10. A Yale-led research group has discovered “Bullseye,” a galaxy with nine rings that may help astronomers better understand galaxy evolution and dark matter.

    LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)