Faculty win prestigious awards
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, playwright and professor in the practice of theater and performance studies, won a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play Purpose, a “skillful blend of drama and comedy that probes how different generations define heritage.”
Two faculty members with primary appointments in the FAS joined the 2025 class of Guggenheim Fellowships: Marie-Helene Bertino, lecturer in English and the Ritvo-Slifka Writer in Residence; and Molly Brunson, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures.
Celebrating groundbreaking science
Sam Raskin, James E. English Professor of Mathematics, was awarded a 2025 New Horizons in Mathematics prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation for his work on the resolution of the geometric Langlands conjecture. For their contributions to international scientific collaborations, six Yale physicists—Keith Baker, Helen Caines, Sarah Demers, John Harris, Laura Havener, and Paul Tipton—were among thousands of scientists awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to recognize four international experimental collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
In addition, a nonprofit organization utilizing research from Noah Planavsky, professor of earth and planetary sciences, won the $50 million grand prize from the international XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition to permanently remove and store carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere.
FAS faculty elected to national academies
Distinguished ladder faculty members with primary or fully joint appointments in the FAS have been elected to national academies in recent months. Steven Berry (economics), Gary Brudvig (chemistry), Jonathan Ellman (chemistry and pharmacology), Leonid Glazman (physics), and Mark Hochstrasser (molecular biophysics and biochemistry) were elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Brudvig, Ned Blackhawk (history), Jennifer Gandhi (global affairs and political science), Marina Halac (economics), Caryl Phillips (English), and Philipp Strack (economics) were elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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