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  1. Elsa Yan, Professor of Chemistry, was recently awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study this phenomenon.

    Elsa Yan and graduate student (Photo by Charlyn Paradis)
  2. A new study led by Seth Herzon, Milton Harris ’29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pharmacology, completed a challenging synthesis of a molecule that may have potent anti-cancer effects.

    This illustration depicts the synthetic chemistry solution (left) for recreating a cancer-fighting molecule found in the marine sponge Phorbas gukhulensis.
  3. Yale recognized eleven faculty innovators with the 2025 Yale Faculty Innovation Awards for translating breakthrough research into ventures that address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

    2025 Yale Faculty Innovation Awards
  4. Yale's community, including FAS faculty Marla Geha and Michael Fotos and members of the university’s military community, gathered on November 11th for the annual Veterans Day ceremony.

    Veterans Day Ceremony 2025 (Photo by Dan Renzetti)
  5. Binyam Mogessie, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Yale researchers have created a new method for simulating “aging-like” chromosome errors in mouse eggs to better understand female reproductive lifespan.

     Image of a human egg cell
  6. In a new study, Yale researchers in the lab of David Breslow, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, identified a pathway that allows cells to “disassemble” their cilia before division — and found a possible connection to a neurological disorder.

    From left, Catie Wrinn, Jingbo Sun, and David Breslow in Breslow's lab. Photo credit: Allie Barton
  7. A global competition to combine AI with climate solutions has named a project led by Elizabeth Yankovsky, Assistant Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, as one of two Yale-related projects among its winning ideas.

    Yale’s Luke Gloege (left) and Elizabeth Yankovsky are part of a team developing a highly advanced forecasting system for marine carbon dioxide removal strategies.
  8. Reina Maruyama, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Karsten Heeger, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, are members of CUORE alongside Yale research scientists, postdoctoral students, graduate students, and international collaborators.

    Samantha Pagan working on the CUPID (CUORE’s successor) Muon Veto System at Wright Laboratory.  (Image courtesy of Yale Wright Laboratory/Iris Ponce)
  9. This fall, a popular undergraduate course on invertebrate biology taught by Casey Dunn, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has been reinvented as a hands-on, field research experience on one of the region’s Thimble Islands.

    A student in Professor Casey Dunn's course on Connecticut's Horse Island crouches down to examine samples of aquatic plants in glass dishes. Photo credit: Dan Renzetti
  10. New FAS faculty member Harry McNamara is combining developmental biology, neurobiology, and biophysics to answer basic science questions about how cells communicate.

    Harry McNamara (Photo credit: Ian Christmann)