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  1. The biotech company Arvinas was originally founded based on pioneering research from Yale chemist Craig Crews into PROTAC protein degraders.

    Craig Crews. Photo credit: Marissa Fiorucci
  2. Each spring, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recognizes professors from each of four divisions for their advising and mentoring of Yale students.

    From left: Joseph Craft, Egor Lazarev, Ivan Loseu, and Jessica Peritz
  3. Earth.com covered a recent study led by Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, in which Bhullar and his team identified a previously unknown species.

  4. A recent study led by Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, was covered by the New York Times.

  5. Breaker, a field-leading biochemist and Yale leader, will serve as the FAS dean of science for a five-year term.

    Ronald Breaker
  6. Gandhi, a political scientist, will serve as the FAS dean of faculty development for a five-year term.

    Jennifer Gandhi
  7. In their introduction to the day’s proceedings, Peabody curators Thomas Near, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Martha Muñoz, associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, made the argument that understanding biodiversity is imperative to the continued well-being of our planet.

  8. Industrialized lifestyles — and feeding infants with formula — are changing the gut microbiome in ways that significantly increase estrogen recycling, potentially affecting people’s health, according to a new Yale study co-authored by Richard Bribiescas, J. Clayton Stephenson/Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

    3D scientific illustration depicting the human gut microbiom
  9. The new members, who have made key contributions in a range of fields, join previously elected fellows in helping to “advance the common good” across the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.

    Top row, from left, Leah Platt Boustan, Daphne Brooks, Erika J. Edwards, and Vanessa Olivia Ezenwa. Second row, from left, Branden Jacobs Jenkins, Lisa Lowe, Joanne Meyerowitz, and Gideon Yaffe.   Photos courtesy of Yale units and departments. Photo of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, used with permission.
  10. Two faculty members received Yale College’s oldest teaching award during a ceremony last week, while the longest serving college dean was honored for her support of teaching and learning.

    From left: Joe Wolenski, Sarah Mahurin, and Roger Howe. Photos by Robert DeSanto