The fifth round of Yale Planetary Solutions grants will award more than $1.9 million to 19 projects, including four projects that will also receive support from the newly created Planetary Solutions Impact Accelerator.

The awards, to Fabrizio Zilibotti, Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics, and Rohini Pande, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and director of Yale's Economic Growth Center, were among seven made this year by the global professional organization of economists.

Yale researchers led by John Carlson, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, discovered a naturally occurring compound in garlic that halts mating and egg-laying in insects.

“Our center draws together people with different forms of specialized expertise to think about difficult questions that have no clear answers but that we can’t avoid,” said Bryan Garsten, the center’s faculty director and a professor of political science and humanities.

The biotech company Arvinas was originally founded based on pioneering research from Yale chemist Craig Crews into PROTAC protein degraders.

Each spring, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recognizes professors from each of four divisions for their advising and mentoring of Yale students.

Earth.com covered a recent study led by Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, in which Bhullar and his team identified a previously unknown species.

A recent study led by Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, was covered by the New York Times.

Yale’s Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of American Studies, has received a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to support his research into political polarization and to identify potential solutions.

Breaker, a field-leading biochemist and Yale leader, will serve as the FAS dean of science for a five-year term.