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Tropical cloud forests exist in 60 countries, account for less than a half of 1% of all land mass on Earth, but are home to 15% of the world’s known species.
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This video was created by Haruko Nakamura, Yale’s librarian of Japanese Studies, and Dylan Siegel ’21 M.A. a graduate student in East Asian Studies.
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Dean Tamar Gendler has announced that Steven Wilkinson will serve as acting FAS dean of social science for a one-year term, through June 2022, pending approval.
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Historian David Blight, art historian Mary Miller, and Yale Board of Trustees and former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi were elected in April.
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Species loss may actually underestimate human influence upon the biosphere, according to new research by scientists at Yale and Princeton.
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Species loss may actually underestimate human influence upon the biosphere, according to new research by scientists at Yale and Princeton.
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Fourteen Yale faculty members who work across a range of disciplines are among the 252 newest members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Studying the evolution of biological soft matter and the mechanisms by which they assembled, may lead to creating new biofuels, chemicals, and materials.
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A new study concludes that people switching their votes from Democrat to Republican better explains the GOP’s success in 2016 than did increased turnout.
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Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.