A new Yale study's findings could upend previous understanding of the tiny phytoplankton's role in everything from the rise of whales to the carbon cycle.

A new study, co-authored by Yale's Eric Sargis, finds barking hyraxes — small, herbivorous mammals — to be a separate species from their shrieking neighbors.

Our guest is the well-regarded historian Elizabeth Hinton, who is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University as well as a professor of law at Yale Law School. Her book is "America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s." Per a front-page review of this work in The New York Times Book Review: "[A] groundbreaking, deeply researched, and profoundly heart-rending account of the origins of our national crisis of police violence against Black America.... 'America on Fire' is more than a brilliant guided tour through our nation's morally ruinous past. It reveals the deep roots of the current movement to reject a system of law enforcement that defines as the problem the very people who continue to seek to liberate themselves from racial oppression.

Meet Marcel Elias, an assistant professor of English with expertise in medieval and French literature.

While working on an 85-million-year-long record of fish and shark abundance, researchers discovered a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago.

In both 2020 and 2021, the Abel Prize — considered by many the Nobel Prize of math — was awarded to a Yale-affiliated mathematician.

Forty faculty members retired from the FAS in 2020-2021, and six of our active FAS colleagues passed away during the academic year. As is tradition in the FAS, at the final Yale College Faculty Meeting of the academic year, Dean Tamar Gendler read tributes to these faculty, recognizing their long-time service to the university. While this is typically an occasion to gather in person and celebrate our accomplished FAS colleagues, this year’s meeting took place remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions. Once we are able to gather again, we look forward to celebrating our 2020-2021 retirees in person.

A new Yale study vindicates the often-maligned reputation of an ancient assortment of worms, trilobites, and other animals that once lived in Earth’s oceans.

As the days lengthen and the sun shines more brightly, I write with gratitude and admiration for the myriad ways in which we have come together as a community of scholars and teachers during the long months of the 2020-21 academic year.

Mark A. Reed, the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics, and integral member of the SEAS community for three decades, passed away peacefully in his home on May 5, 2021, at the age of 66.