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  1. Rabinowitz, who recently retired after 26 years of service to Yale, is credited with the co-discovery of thousands of asteroids, the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt, hundreds of supernovae, and other galactic transients.

    A room of colleagues celebrates David Rabinowitz (left).
  2. Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has co-authored a new study with GSAS alumnus Caleb Gordon that offers insights into which animal groups’ evolutionary path brought them from the land and back to water.

    Paleontologist Caleb Gordon takes measurements of ancient turtle bones at the Yale Peabody Museum.  (Photo courtesy of Yale Peabody Museum)
  3. A look back at one of the most cited science studies of all time — Sterling Professor of Chemistry William Jorgensen’s landmark 1983 simulations of water.

    William Jorgensen helped redefine drug design with his 1983 water models.  Photo by Dan Renzetti
  4. Using machine learning, postdoctoral researcher Ran Meng and Yale researchers in the lab of Mark Gerstein, Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, have developed a new imaging technique that can unlock signs of aging and disease in human cells.

    Ran Meng and Mark Gerstein
  5. A company utilizing an approach to capturing disease-causing proteins developed by the lab of Craig Crews, John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry, was recently acquired by Johnson & Johnson.

    Craig Crews
  6. In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Mark Gerstein (Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Computer Science and of Statistics & Data Science) writes that because powerful technologies can become destructive, artificial intelligence companies must be responsible stewards of their creations.

    Mark Gerstein
  7. Elsa Yan, Professor of Chemistry, was recently awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study this phenomenon.

    Elsa Yan and graduate student (Photo by Charlyn Paradis)
  8. Heeger, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and director of Yale’s Wright Lab, will serve a two-year term will beginning in March 2026.

    Karsten Heeger
  9. A new study led by Seth Herzon, Milton Harris ’29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pharmacology, completed a challenging synthesis of a molecule that may have potent anti-cancer effects.

    This illustration depicts the synthetic chemistry solution (left) for recreating a cancer-fighting molecule found in the marine sponge Phorbas gukhulensis.
  10. In a Q&A, world-renowned expert Hugh Taylor, Anita O'Keeffe Young Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, explains why it's often misunderstood — and what treatments exist today.

    Hugh Taylor