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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yale College recently awarded its annual teaching prizes to six faculty members during a reception at the Humanities Quadrangle.

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.