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Happy birthday to the playwright August Wilson, born #OTD in 1945. Wilson had a fruitful relationship with the Yale Rep throughout his career. Watch the cast of the 2016 production of "Seven Guitars" read his 1985 poem "Home," dedicated to the theater: https://t.co/jupC0gBqsK

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Yale cultural historian and literary scholar Jing Tsu was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category for her book “Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern.” #Yale https://t.co/p188CrSI0m

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Political scientist Isabela Mares discusses her book, “Protecting the Ballot: How First-Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption," which examines the incentives that led politicians to pass electoral reforms in first-wave democracies. #Yale https://t.co/EiidC7j6TD

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In his new book, “Wonders and Rarities," Yale’s Travis Zadeh examines a seminal 13th-century work of natural history and cosmology. #Yale https://t.co/jgjwvbZaEc

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Over the next five years, Yale geophysicist Jun Korenaga will be part of a scientific project funded by @NASA to study the origin and early development of the Earth’s moon. #Yale https://t.co/B4BMFgcP23

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Congrats to Prof. Paul Anastas of @YaleEnvironment & @YaleSPH, who has won the 2021 Volvo Environment Prize, one of the world’s most respected environmental prizes. Anastas is known as the “father of green chemistry.” https://t.co/cqFT63mrpC https://t.co/3BSDwOGcrU

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Jonathan Spence “approached China as if writing a detective story, deciphering for Western readers one of the world’s largest, most populous and complex countries” via @washingtonpost https://t.co/Dvx18NEPrO

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Joy Harjo has been named the winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for her book "Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years." More about @JoyHarjo's contributions to poetry: https://t.co/pbfG9GwQyi @yalelibrary @BeineckeLibrary #Yale https://t.co/Go21GiRzFn

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In the breakout best-seller “Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most,” three Yale scholars of religion and philosophy wrestle with life’s big questions. Read more from @YaleDivSchool here: https://t.co/KPHsQLwO9r #Yale https://t.co/2UibLgUpKM

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#OTD 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson published "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." @BeineckeLibrary’s Edwin J. Beinecke Collection of Stevenson is the world's largest such collection and includes this early draft manuscript fraction: https://t.co/N1d124AHe0 #Yale https://t.co/DtUX1vHANt