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  1. Morgan Ng, Assistant Professor of History of Art, makes the case in a new book that breakthroughs in many fields of design yielded cutting-edge defensive technologies during the Italian Renaissance.

    Morgan Ng
  2. Steven Berry, a leading figure in the fields of industrial organization and applied microeconomics, is among the most cited and influential work in economics in the last two decades.

    Steven Berry
  3. Huang, Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Science and of Political Science, speaks with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies about her work and how it can improve the accuracy and practicality of social science.

    Melody Huang
  4. Associate Professor Jessica Lamont won two awards for her monograph In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece (Oxford 2023). Professor Kirk Freudenburg received the biennial Vergilian Society McKay Prize for his monograph Virgil’s Cinematic Art: Vision as Narrative in the Aeneid (Oxford 2023).

  5. Luciano Floridi, who joined the Yale faculty in 2023, is considered a founder of the philosophy of information and one of the major interpreters of the digital revolution.

    Luciano Floridi
  6. FAS chemists, evolutionary biologists, and geochemists make waves with their latest research and collaborations.

    Illustration of molecules on top of a background of numbers. Image credit: Michael Helfenbein.
  7. Sunil Amrith, a scholar of global environmental history, will lead Yale’s international engagement efforts.

    Sunil Amrith
  8. A Yale-led astronomy team may have discovered the first direct evidence of a supermassive black hole just after it formed — in a galaxy they’re calling “Infinity.”

    Image of the Infinity galaxy, observed with the James Webb Space Telescope. It is the result of a cosmic collision between two galaxies. The location of the possible newborn black hole is shown in the center, along with the two other black holes that were already present before the collision. Image credit: NASA, P. van Dokkum, G. Brammer.
  9. Earth.com interviews Malena Rice, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, about her recent study which maps binary stars.

    Malena Rice
  10. A Yale-led study has found that night lizards, small reptiles that inhabit North and Central America, survived the extinction event that wiped out most life on Earth — despite living near ground zero.

    Madrean tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma sylvaticum) El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, municipality of Gómez Farías, Tamaulipas, Mexico (24 May 2005).  (Photo © William L. Farr, Licensed through Creative Commons BY-SA-4.0)