January 2021 News

Image of Elizabeth Nugent
January 8, 2021
Yale political scientist Elizabeth Nugent discusses “After Repression,” her new book on the outcome of 2011’s Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt.
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January 5, 2021
School closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic are widening the learning gap between students in low-income and wealthier communities, a Yale study finds.
Primitive islands
January 4, 2021
Islands jutting up from the world’s oceans provided conditions necessary for early life to flourish, a new study co-authored by a Yale scientist suggests.