Kathryn Lofton, Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies and Professor of History and Divinity, has received the 2026 John T. Hubbell Prize for her article “Great Excitement Prevails: The American Lynching Myth.”

Maureen Long, Bruce D. Alexander ’65 Professor and Chair of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has received the 2026 Louise H. Kellogg Mid-Career Medal from the American Geophysical Union for her interdisciplinary research on the Earth’s deep interior and contributions to mentoring, outreach, and diversity.

In a new study, a research group including Derek Briggs, Derek Briggs, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, suggests animals may have appeared on Earth as early as 800 to 700 million years ago.

In a new video, scholars from across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences explain how the recent explosion of data in our world presents both challenges and opportunities in their quest to better understand human behavior.

In a new book, Assistant Professor of American Studies Julián Posada explores the experiences of the low-paid workers who generate the massive amounts of data needed for artificial intelligence.

Using a trove of historical records, researchers including Tim Jesper Suhrhoff, Postdoctoral Associate in Earth & Planetary Sciences, have found that a process known as agricultural liming stores more carbon in the soil than it emits, a finding that contradicts conventional emissions accounting.

A translation by Marta Figlerowicz, Professor of Comparative Literature, has received the 2026 Modernist Studies Association Translation Prize for "The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader," a collection exploring nationalism, identity, and cultural history through the writings of Polish intellectual Maria Janion.

A new study from a Yale-led research team, including astronomers Emma Jane Weller and Priyamvada Natarajan, suggests that some of the most interesting black holes in the universe are the ones that have “wandered” away.

A study led by Damanveer Grewal, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, provides the first geochemical evidence that aerodynamic sorting of material for the solar system’s first bodies began much earlier than previously known.

The prize recognized Assistant Professor of English Marcel Elias's "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" as Best First Monograph on a topic dealing with late-medieval literature published in 2024 or 2025.