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  1. Jarvis is Assistant Professor in the Department of French in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her book, “Decolonizing Memory,” has won several awards including the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize from the FAS.

    Jill Jarvis
  2. Caines’ research has revealed important insights into the behavior of nuclear matter under extremes of temperature and density.

    Helen Caines
  3. Brancher, a specialist in the French Renaissance, joined the Yale faculty in the fall of 2023.

    Dominique Brancher
  4. In an interview with Yale News, Kaiama L. Glover discusses her scholarship at the nexus of French, francophone, Caribbean, and literary studies.

    Kaiama L. Glover
  5. Yale researchers have discovered evidence of why a fish group, considered “living fossils,” has existed largely unchanged for tens of millions of years.

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  6. The leadership of Yale Inclusion Economics looks at the progress Indian women have made and prospects for their increased economic empowerment.

    Female Labor Force Figure
  7. From neutrinos to maps of the entire universe, Faculty of Arts and Sciences physicists and cosmologists are exploring the unseen in a quest to understand the most far-reaching scientific mysteries.

  8. From a fruit fly infestation that swarms your kitchen to the pesky mosquitos that swarm during the summer seeking blood, insects have held a constant vendetta against humans. Well, we would all like to put down our fly swatters and bug spray. The work of John Carlson may help us tame these pests once and for all.

    John Carlson
  9. Zhou Fan has a way with numbers. With a few equations and computer simulations, he’s able to explore an incredible range of questions – from the propagation of information through neural networks, to the genetic underpinnings of complex traits — that are deeply connected to how we understand and process data.

    Zhou Fan
  10. In her new book, Paola Bertucci, Professor of History and History of Science and Medicine in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, explains how fictionalized scientific facts can become reality for readers – in the eighteenth century as well as today.

    Paola Bertucci