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  1. Faculty Academy, offered by the FAS Dean’s Office SAL2 program, gives FAS faculty the opportunity to teach and take courses with their academic peers.

    Angela Lee-Smith teaching her mini-course, “You Can Learn to Read Korean Over Lunch – Really!” Photo credit: Michaela Herrmann.
  2. Yale astronomers show how the long-term evolution of binary star systems with two planets and two stars can produce something rare: double hot Jupiters.

    AI-generated illustration of a "hot Jupiter," a large, intensely hot planet about the size of Jupiter or Saturn. Image credit: Michael Helfenbein
  3. In a new book co-edited by Yale sociologist Rene Almeling, experts from across several disciplines examine the relationship between sperm, health, and politics.

    A headshot of Rene Almeling alongside the cover of her new co-edited book, "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics."
  4. Yale's Department of Economics recognized five outstanding faculty members as this year’s recipients of the Merton J. Peck Prize for distinction and excellence in undergraduate teaching.

    Headshots of five Economics faculty recognized for excellence in undergraduate teaching:Ana Cecilia Fieler, John Eric Humphries, John Geanakoplos, Benjamin Polak, and Rebecca Toseland.
  5. This message announces the winners of the 2024-25 Heyman and Greer prizes for scholarship. Congratulations to the honorees!

  6. In a new study, Yale's Priyamvada Natarajan and other astronomers predict the new Roman telescope will elevate the ability to study dark matter.

    This image shows a simulated observation from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with an overlay of its Wide Field Instrument’s field of view. More than 20 gravitational lenses, with examples shown at left and right, are expected to pop out in every one of Roman’s vast observations. Science: NASA, Bryce Wedig (Washington University in St. Louis), Tansu Daylan (Washington University in St. Louis) Image: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
  7. A Yale-led research team offers a detailed look at the inner workings of a “jellyfish” galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away.

    A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4858, showing the stellar tendrils extending north from the barred spiral disk. The cold molecular gas in NGC 4858, seen by the ALMA radio telescope with its “bunny ear” inner tail, is shown in orange.
  8. In the latest “Rose Walk and Talk,” Yale paleontologist Bhart-Anjan Bhullar shares his thoughts — just in time for the next “Jurassic World” movie — on which dinosaurs would have been most aggressive around humans.

    Still image of a tyrannosaurus rex model, captured from the 1925 movie, "The Lost World."
  9. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week recognized Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Samuel McDougle, and Junliang Shen for scholarly achievements in their respective fields.

    Portraits of the 2024-25 Heyman Prize and Greer Prize winners. From left: Sam McDougle, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, and Junliang Shen.
  10. The acclaimed playwright and Yale faculty member received a Tony Award for Best Play, for “Purpose,” just weeks after the same play earned him the Pulitzer Prize.

    Branden Jacobs-Jenkins poses with the Tony award he won on June 8, 2025, for his play "Purpose." Photo courtesy: Evan Agostini / AP