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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.
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Shulman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, died on Jan. 11, 2026.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessica Thompson appeared on NPR to discuss a 10,000-year-old cremation pyre her team helped excavate in Malawi.
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A new study coauthored by Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson provides evidence of the earliest intentional cremation in ancient Africa.