Francesco Casetti, Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies, has been appointed as a member of the International Jury for the Eighty–Third Venice International Film Festival, reflecting both Casetti’s longstanding influence on film and media studies and the international prominence of Yale’s Film and Media Studies program.

Luciano Floridi, John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science and Director of the Digital Ethics Center, has been awarded the 2026 Strega International Non-Fiction Prize for his recent work on AI and information ethics.

A new Yale-led study, part of a wider research program led by Martha Muñoz, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, finds that woodland salamanders are far more evolutionarily diverse than they appear. The findings challenge decades of assumptions about how species adapt to changing environments.

A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum explores assistant professor of Egyptology Victoria Almansa-Villatoro’s study of thousands of papyri fragments from the Old Kingdom era of Ancient Egypt.

Kabeche, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, was recently interviewed about her career and research by the Journal of Cell Science for its "Cell Scientist to watch" column.

Lu, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, was named to the list for his work "pioneer[ing] a paradigm shift in Scientific Machine Learning (SciML)."

Yale Medicine Magazine recently profiled the lab of Steven Tang, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and the work his team is doing to unravel the mysteries of sperm and pave the way for new fertility and contraceptive therapies.

A research team in the lab of Pieter van Dokkum, the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, discover a third galaxy devoid of dark matter alongside 2 more that are in a formation thats never seen before.

Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is one of 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy to receive a 2026 Cottrell Scholar Award. Each awardee receives $120,000 to support their research and science education as teacher-scholars.

A study co-led by Luciano Floridi, John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science, and other researchers from the Digital Ethics Center propose a potential solution to the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the free and open-source software (FOSS) community.