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  1. In a new book, FAS assistant professor Jinyi Chu shows how Russian modernists turned to Chinese art forms to expand their understanding of the universal.

    Headshot of Jinyi Chu next to the cover of his book, Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal.
  2. Amrith has been awarded the Toynbee Prize for his exceptional work on the movement of peoples as shaped by environmental forces, work that has brought the regions of South/Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to the center of global historical scholarship.

    Sunil Amrith
  3. A new study shows that poor audio quality in videoconferencing negatively affects listeners’ judgments of the people speaking.

    Screenshot of a video featuring Brian Scholl, Professor of Psychology in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
  4. Infants can encode specific memories, a new Yale study shows, suggesting “infantile amnesia” might be a memory retrieval problem.

    Nick Turk-Browne (left) preparing a child participant and parent for an infant MRI study in the Brain Imaging Center (now BrainWorks) at Yale University circa 2021. Photo credit: 160/90
  5. Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was recently elected the Vice-Chair of the 2025 Executive Committee for the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics.

    Helen Caines
  6. A Yale anthropologist's study of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton of Mixodectes pungens offers insights into mammals’ evolutionary trajectory after non-avian dinosaur extinction.

    Illustration of Mixodectes pungens (foreground), small mammals that inhabited western North America 62 million years ago, weighed about 3 pounds, dwelled in trees, and largely dined on leaves. They inhabited the same forests as small early primates like Torrejonia wilsoni (background). Credit: Andrey Atuchin.
  7. Natarajan has also been honored with a 2025 Suffrage Science Award from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in the UK for her pioneering contributions to astrophysics.

    Priyamvada Natarajan
  8. In a new study, Yale chemists describe an unusual method for converting carbon dioxide into the industrial compound formate.

    Illustration depicting a novel method for converting carbon dioxide (represented as circular, red and white molecules on the left) into the industrial compound formate (represented as circular, red and white molecules on the right). Image credit: Xiaofan Jia.
  9. A first-of-its-kind study shows that experiencing violence and trauma leaves a heritable imprint on the human genome.

    In the early 1980s, the Syrian regime carried out a massacre in the city of Hama, killing tens of thousands of people. A survivor (left) and her daughter and granddaughter were participants in to a study showing that the trauma of such incidents leaves marks on the genome that are heritable across generations. Credit: Ameen Alwani
  10. A new Yale study offers surprising findings into the development of bacterial biofilms, the oldest form of multicellularity on the planet.

    An image of bacterial colonies lit up with red and green light.