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Kabeche, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, was recently interviewed about her career and research by the Journal of Cell Science for its "Cell Scientist to watch" column.
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Lu, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, was named to the list for his work "pioneer[ing] a paradigm shift in Scientific Machine Learning (SciML)."
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Yale Medicine Magazine recently profiled the lab of Steven Tang, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and the work his team is doing to unravel the mysteries of sperm and pave the way for new fertility and contraceptive therapies.
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A research team in the lab of Pieter van Dokkum, the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, discover a third galaxy devoid of dark matter alongside 2 more that are in a formation that's never seen before.
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Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is one of 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy to receive a 2026 Cottrell Scholar Award. Each awardee receives $120,000 to support their research and science education as teacher-scholars.
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A study co-led by Luciano Floridi, John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science, and other researchers from the Digital Ethics Center propose a potential solution to the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the free and open-source software (FOSS) community.
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The Yale Review, led by Professor in the Practice of English Meghan O'Rourke, has been named the winner of the 2026 National Magazine Award for Fiction.
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Two multidisciplinary research teams composed of FAS faculty are seeking to understand why AI systems become misinformed or misaligned with users’ intentions and to develop ways to make them safer, more reliable, and more accountable.
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“External validity isn’t just a statistical issue — it’s a question that runs through how we design studies, interpret results, and make decisions in the real world,” said Melody Huang, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Statistics & Data Science and faculty fellow at ISPS. “This is one of the central challenges of modern science.”
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A study led by Serena Tucci, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, conducts research on genomes from Near Oceania that reveal a complex population history and evidence that DNA inherited from extinct hominins continues to influence human biology today.