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  1. In a Q&A, Piphal Heng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, discusses his investigation into everyday life in Cambodia’s City of Angkor, using material evidence and spatial analysis to understand the way the city evolved.

    Piphal Heng. Photo credit: Allie Barton
  2. Shulman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, died on Jan. 11, 2026.

    Robert G. Shulman
  3. John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law and Professor of History, speaks to Yale News about his new book about how a little-known foundation funded by a wealthy banking heir sought to bring about a more just society in the first half of the 20th century.

    John Fabian Witt alongside the cover of his book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.
  4. Long, Bruce D. Alexander '65 Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the name of the village itself comes from an indigenous word meaning “the place of noises.”

  5. A new study led by Catherine Panter-Brick, the Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, uses visual mapping to show that peace is understood differently across different stakeholders in conflict-affected countries.

    A Yale-led research team, pictured here in front of the Diplomatic Academy of Mauritania, used visual mapping exercises to chart how different societal groups view pathways to peace.   (Photo courtesy of Catherine Panter-Brick)
  6. Yale Ventures congratulates Yale spinout Quantum Circuits, founded by Rob Schoelkopf, Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics, on its announced acquisition by D-Wave, a global leader in quantum computing systems and services.

  7. In a new study, chemists from Yale in the lab of Nilay Hazari, John Randolph Huffman Professor of Chemistry, describe a method for designing more sustainable catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into formate.

    Justin Wedal, left, and Nilay Hazari led the research in Hazari’s lab at Yale. Photo credit: Allie Barton
  8. Hélène Landemore, ISPS faculty fellow and Damon Wells ’58 professor of political science, hosted and helped organize the conference with Kevin Elliott, a political theorist and lecturer in the Ethics, Politics, & Economics Program.

  9. Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessica Thompson appeared on NPR to discuss a 10,000-year-old cremation pyre her team helped excavate in Malawi.

  10. A new study coauthored by Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson provides evidence of the earliest intentional cremation in ancient Africa.

    Hora Mountain from afar. Photo credit: Jacob Davis