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  1. Frances McCall Rosenbluth, a comparative political economist and a distinguished and beloved teacher and member of the Yale community, died Nov. 20.

  2. Widespread megaherbivore extinctions 50,000 to 60,000 years ago had a major impact on grassland ecosystems around the world, a new Yale study reveals.

  3. American Sign Language course (ASL110) has been expanded from two sections to seven this fall and has added two new lectors to its previous roster of one.

  4. Sound Artist and Composer Spencer Topel, our 2019 Yale Quantum Institute Artist-in-Residence performed a live set of “Quantum Sound: A Live Performance of Superconductive Devices” in the Quantum Laboratories of Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf for the 1st International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity on November 19, 2021.

  5. A new study introduces a novel way for tectonic plates — massive sheets of rock that jostle for position in the Earth’s crust and upper mantle — to bend and sink.

  6. A Yale-developed vaccine that helps more quickly identify tick bites on guinea pigs could offer humans protection against Lyme Disease and other pathogens.

  7. Yale physicist Laura Newburgh and her collaborators are honored for breakthroughs in the understanding of a mysterious phenomenon known as fast radio bursts.

  8. FAS researchers have developed an oral medication to treat diabetes that controls insulin levels while simultaneously reversing the inflammatory effects of the disease.

  9. Woo-Kyoung Ahn’s groundbreaking work on cognition has made significant contributions to the study of higher-level reasoning processes.

  10. Jennifer Klein’s research spans the fields of U.S. labor history, urban history, social movements, and political economy.