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  1. Navin Kartik, Professor of Economics, and coauthors explore why admissions committees sometimes choose not to see test scores, offering a theory of how social pressure shapes university decisions.

    multiple-choice answer sheet being filled in with a pencil.
  2. The Chronicle noted that Quarshie, Assistant Professor of History and of Anthropology and in the History of Medicine, "takes no shortcuts" to understanding the history of psychiatry in Ghana in his 2025 book "African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return."

    A headshot of Nana Osei Quarshie alongside the cover of his 2025 book, African Pharmakon.
  3. Using gravitational wave measurements, an international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes a research team led by Chiara Mingarelli, Assistant Professor of Physics, has identified two black hole binary candidates — named, in part, after locales in “The Lord of the Rings.”

    Supermassive black holes - Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018
  4. In this edition of Humanitas, a new course invites students to take a trip back to 1900 Vienna and the “Best of 2025” lists that featured faculty publications.

    Detail from “Beethoven Frieze,” by Gustav Klimt.
  5. A new study co-authored by Janet Currie, David Swensen Professor of Economics, finds that adolescents with anxiety or depression fare better when doctors follow FDA approvals or professional treatment guidelines rather than freelancing off-label treatments.

    Janet Currie
  6. In an undergraduate course taught by Aurélie Vialette, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale students examined historical objects from the Spanish Civil War — and engaged with history hands-on in Barcelona.

    Vialette with students (Photo by Dan Renzetti)
  7. Floridi was recognized for his scholarly contributions to the philosophy of technology, digital society, and artificial intelligence.

    Luciano Floridi
  8. Natarajan, Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, was recently interviewed by Amitabh Sinha of the Indian Express.

    Priyamvada Natarajan. Photo credit: Abhinav Saha for the Indian Express
  9. When Yale chemist Jon Ellman was starting his career in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s, an AIDS diagnosis “was a death sentence,” he said. But thanks to new drugs made possible in part by advances in his lab, that’s changed — a legacy he’s advanced as Yale’s Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry.

    Jon Ellman with tert-butanesulfinamide chemical structure and early product sample
  10. The new grants will build upon existing ISPS support for research that advances survey methodology, research exploring democratic innovations, as well as conferences addressing important social and public policy issues