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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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FAS chemists, evolutionary biologists, and geochemists make waves with their latest research and collaborations.
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Sunil Amrith, a scholar of global environmental history, will lead Yale’s international engagement efforts.
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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.”
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Earth.com interviews Malena Rice, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, about her recent study which maps binary stars.
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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.