May 2022 News

May 26, 2022
John M. Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, died on May 22 after a long illness. He was 75. Merriman was an early practitioner of the history “from the ground up...
May 17, 2022
Carla Staver’s research is going up in smoke – and that’s a good thing. She’s started hundreds of experimental fires in African savannas to study their impact.
May 13, 2022
Yale’s Mislav Baloković talks about the Event Horizon Telescope’s new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
May 10, 2022
A new study by FAS faculty member Steve Chang was able to chart the surprisingly widespread neuronal response in multiple brain areas when the eyes of two individuals meet...
May 10, 2022
“The Humanity Dialogues,” is a series in which experts from the FAS and across Yale and other academic institutions have been joined by artists, activists, and scholars who...
May 10, 2022
In Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II, Kennedy tracks the fortunes of six major navies during the war, describes changes...
May 9, 2022
Scheve, a noted scholar of international and comparative politics, will serve for a 5-year term.