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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.
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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."
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Floridi was recognized for his scholarly contributions to the philosophy of technology, digital society, and artificial intelligence.
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Natarajan, Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, was recently interviewed by Amitabh Sinha of the Indian Express.
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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.
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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