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  1. In their introduction to the day’s proceedings, Peabody curators Thomas Near, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Martha Muñoz, associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, made the argument that understanding biodiversity is imperative to the continued well-being of our planet.

  2. Gage, John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History, joined Connecticut Public Radio to reflect on what she learned about the country while writing her latest book, "This Land is Your Land."

  3. The ambassador presented K. David Jackson – chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies and Professor of Portuguese – with the honor of Comendador of the “Order of Camões,” which is awarded for distinguished service to the Portuguese language and culture and is conferred by the president of the Republic.

    K. David Jackson and Portuguese Ambassador Francisco Duarte Lopes. Photo Credit: Yale MacMillan Center
  4. Industrialized lifestyles — and feeding infants with formula — are changing the gut microbiome in ways that significantly increase estrogen recycling, potentially affecting people’s health, according to a new Yale study co-authored by Richard Bribiescas, J. Clayton Stephenson/Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

    3D scientific illustration depicting the human gut microbiom
  5. FAS faculty are exploring the past, present, and future of democracy, and working to understand how it might change to keep pace with—and evolve alongside—our increasingly complex world.

    Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore helped manage a convention of French citizens tasked with reconsidering the country’s policies on assisted dying. Photo credit: Katrin Baumann/CESE
  6. Gregory Huber, ISPS interim director and Forst Family Professor of Political Science, presented data in which he and his co-authors undercut a dominant narrative that mass polarization is primarily driven by wildly exaggerated misperceptions of the other side.

    Gregory Huber discusses data showing how misperceptions drive polarization
  7. Rourke O’Brien, Associate Professor of Sociology, showed that expanding voting rights in 1975 improved material conditions for everyone and immediately reduced mortality for non-white groups. The findings were published in a recent co-authored working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

    Gerald-Ford-Voting-Rights-Act-of-1975-Rose-Garden
  8. Valdivieso, Assistant Professor of Classics, was selected as one of 63 scholars "poised to make original and significant contributions to their field."

    Erika Valdivieso
  9. Lakhous, a multilingual writer and author of six novels, received the Jesse Howard, Jr. Rome Prize in recognition of his work in modern Italian Studies.

    Amara Lakhous
  10. Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History, joined a panel of other Native historians to discuss what “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” meant for Indigenous communities.

    Left to right: Diane Orson, Nakai Clearwater Northup, Lorén Spears, and Ned Blackhawk. Photo credit: Joel Cintron / Connecticut Public.