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If you’ve seen the recently released Toy Story 5 and noticed that one of the main characters, Blaze, has particularly realistic hair, you can thank Professor Theodore Kim. Kim’s 2023 research paper, “Lifted Curls: A Model for Tightly Coiled Hair Simulation,”plays a big role in why Blaze’s hair looks and moves the way it should. Blaze is a Black-Armenian girl with tightly coiled locks - that is, the type of hair that computer animators have long struggled to depict successfully.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has published a digital update to its 2022 report, “A Research Strategy for Ocean-Based Carbon Removal and Sequestration.” This update includes revisions to the 2022 report’s Introduction, Governance: Legal Policy, and Justice Considerations, and Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) chapters, as well as a new ”State of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)” section that covers research, governance, and pathways for...

Drawing from the rich William Hogarth collections of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library, “Satire, Sympathy, and Social Critique” investigates the power and reverberating impact of the artist’s acclaimed “moral progress” prints. Hogarth’s contemporaries immediately recognized these works for their ability to both entertain and call out cruelty and injustice, and artists and publishers over the following centuries have engaged with Hogarth’s modern moral subjects through appropriation and parody.

“Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry” explores the formation and impact of this groundbreaking poetry collective founded by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady. Recognizing a need for spaces dedicated to the development of Black poetry, Derricotte and Eady created Cave Canem (from the Latin, “beware of the dog”) in 1996, an annual summer intensive workshop for Black poets at all stages of their writing lives.

Beauty Unadorned: “Fire!!” and the Harlem Renaissance celebrates the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance experimental magazine “Fire!!.” The first and only issue appeared on November 15, 1926 and is remembered for its transgression of the era’s social codes, its formal experimentation, and its unabashed manifesto embracing Black art for art’s sake.

The Yale Film Archive has received its 16th grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation, which has ensured preservation of 22 films in the collection. This most recent award will support the preservation of “Set-Up,” a 1971 film by filmmaker Nick Doob. “Set-Up” will be the sixth of Doob’s films preserved by the Yale Film Archive. In 2017, a foundation grant enabled the archive to preserve his first three films: “Plastic Saints” (1968), “42nd St Movie” (1969), and “Costumed Dancer” (1969).

Key Takeaways Top incomes are substantial but still finite: the after-tax income available for further tax increases would not generate enough additional revenue to meet certain ambitious revenue goals. Actual revenue collections from higher tax rates on the top would be smaller than what simple calculations suggest, since tax bases overlap and avoidance responses reduce taxable income. The capacity to raise revenue at the top is as much a matter of tax design as it is tax rates.

Join Melissa Barton for this online opportunity to learn more about the new exhibition, “Beauty Unadorned: 'Fire!!' and the Harlem Renaissance.” Zoom webinar registration: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N8z4Qn8WRo6J-IYQz2PJXg This exhibition celebrates the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance experimental magazine “Fire!!,” the first and only issue of which appeared on November 15, 1926.

In 1507, in a small French mountain town, a group of scholars led by Vautrin Lud sat down with travelers' accounts of a world they would never see and drew a map that named a continent for the first time. They had no satellites, no ground data — just fragments of information, secondhand and incomplete, that they pieced together to create the Waldseemüller map, the first to use the name “America.” Five centuries later, Karen Seto, the Frederick C.

The American Physical Society (APS) Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) recently announced their 2026 honors recipients. Two of the three recipients are Wright Lab alumni: Danielle Norcini ‘19 PhD and Jiaxiang Wang ‘25 PhD. DNP will present these awards at the upcoming DNP Annual Meeting, recognizing the outstanding achievements and contributions of these scientists to the field.