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  1. In a Q&A, historian Daniel Magaziner discusses his new book on South African photographer Omar Badsha, whose images captured the human cost of apartheid.

    Daniel Magaziner
  2. Across the university, rising interest in Korean language and culture has brought new course offerings and faculty who specialize in the region.

    Hwansoo Kim, a professor of religious studies with a secondary appointment in East Asian languages and literatures, is helping to guide the university’s expansion of Korean studies. Photo credit: Allie Barton.
  3. Biggs, Deputy Editor of the Yale Review, is nominated for a prize honoring excellence in reviewing.

    Joanna Biggs
  4. Bertino, Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence and Lecturer in English, has received numerous accolades and awards for her novel Beautyland.

    Marie-Helene Bertino
  5. A new discovery by Yale physicists provides important insights into how faint sounds entering the human cochlea can be amplified enough for us to hear them.

    AI-generated image featuring a human ear surrounded by a violin, bee, bird, and air horn, overlaid with a waveform representing audio. Created and edited by Michael S. Helfenbein using Adobe Stock.
  6. Nick Turk-Browne, director of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute, was recognized by the National Academy of Sciences for his innovative research on learning and memory.

    Nick Turk-Browne
  7. Jennifer Gandhi, a political scientist who joined the Yale faculty in 2022, studies authoritarian regimes and transitions to democracy.

    Jennifer Gandhi
  8. In a Q&A, Olivia Lott discusses what drew her to study Latin American literature, her efforts to translate little-known works, and why she chose to do this work at Yale.

    Olivia Lott
  9. Greg Gandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, writes about a new era of American imperialism for the New York Times.

    Illustration by Daniel Jurman/New York Times.
  10. Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan has won a prestigious astrophysics prize for her seminal work on the unseen world of black holes.

    Priyamvada Natarajan