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  1. A Yale-led study co-published by Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Professor of Anthropology, finds that Azara’s owl monkeys have gotten heavier as temperatures rise — a result that defies long-standing expectations about how animals adapt to warm climates.

    Two Tangeine Ouragans sit in a tree. Photo © Tangerine-Ouragan productions.
  2. "Unfolding History,” a new exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum curated by Egyptologist Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, was recently featured in the New Haven Independent.

    Victoria Almansa-Villatoro (Photo by Allie Barton)
  3. For a new study, Christopher Lynn (Assistant Professor of Physics), who normally probes the complexity of thousands of neurons acting in concert, flips his perspective to look at behaviors of individual neurons.

    Illustration showing a neuron, center, embedded in an artificial neuron network.  AI-enhanced image courtesy of Christopher Lynn
  4. Research from the lab of John Carlson, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, was profiled by Meteored UK.

    Shimaa Ebrahim, associate research scientist, holds up a bottle containing garlic cloves. Photo credit: Anna Schroll
  5. Gundula Kreuzer, Professor of Music, spoke to the New York Times about the history behind the stage curtains at London's Royal Opera House and the role of the house curtains in opera.

  6. A paper co-authored by Costas Arkolakis, Professor of Economics, used data from Connecticut on travel patterns and charging station locations to identify charging locations that would maximize total driver welfare.

  7. In a course taught by Pauline Lin, a senior lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures, students examine China’s relationship with natural landscapes over time.

    Pauline Lin (center) points to a map surrounded by a group of undergraduate students. Photo credit: Andrew Hurley
  8. For the second year, Milan Svolik, Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science, gathered Americanists and comparativists — once studying seemingly different political worlds — to rethink what political science truly knows about democratic stability.

    Milan Svolik
  9. Yale's Priyamvada Natarajan, Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, and her team stress-tested the standard model of cold dark matter and came away with some intriguing new possibilities.

    Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is located about 5 billion light-years away in the constellation Leo.  Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, C. Willott (National Research Council Canada), R. Tripodi (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Rome)
  10. Yale College recently awarded its annual teaching prizes to six faculty members during a reception at the Humanities Quadrangle.

    From left to right, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis with prize winners Alison Coleman, Constantine Muravnik, Scott Miller, Arielle Baskin-Sommers, and Millicent (Penny) Marcus. Photo credit: John Dempsey