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The stories of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: the achievements and activities of our faculty, departments, and programs.
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A new discovery by Yale physicists provides important insights into how faint sounds entering the human cochlea can be amplified enough for us to hear them.
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Nick Turk-Browne, director of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute, was recognized by the National Academy of Sciences for his innovative research on learning and memory.
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Jennifer Gandhi, a political scientist who joined the Yale faculty in 2022, studies authoritarian regimes and transitions to democracy.
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In a Q&A, Olivia Lott discusses what drew her to study Latin American literature, her efforts to translate little-known works, and why she chose to do this work at Yale.
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Greg Gandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, writes about a new era of American imperialism for the New York Times.
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Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan has won a prestigious astrophysics prize for her seminal work on the unseen world of black holes.
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The CHIME Collaboration—which includes researchers in Wright Lab associate professor Laura Newburgh’s group—has been named the first-place winner of the 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for measuring the clustering of hydrogen gas over a large region of the observable Universe.
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Lamont was honored for her first book, which examines the use of curse tablets in ancient Greece and beyond.
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A new, Yale-led study has identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended.
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In a Q&A, Yale’s Stephen Darwall discusses his philosophical analysis of heartfelt phenomena — and the difference between attitudes of the heart and the will.