Jennifer Coughlan, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is a 2026 recipient of the Emerging Leader Award from the Botany Society of America. The award is given annually in recognition of creative and influential scholarship, and impact in any area of Botany reflecting the breadth of the BSA.

For our new faculty spotlight series, we asked incoming FAS faculty member Dr. Abubakarr Yillah, Lecturer in Mathematics, about their teaching, field of research, and thoughts on joining Yale!

For our new faculty spotlight series, we asked incoming FAS faculty member Gloria Mellesmoen, Lecturer in Linguistics, about their teaching, field of research, and thoughts on joining Yale!

For our new faculty spotlight series, we asked incoming FAS faculty member Kexin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, about their teaching, field of research, and thoughts on joining Yale!

For our new faculty spotlight series, we asked incoming FAS faculty member Vincent Brown, David Brion Davis Professor of History about their teaching, field of research, and thoughts on joining Yale.

Priyamvada Natarajan, Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics and Chair of the Department of Astronomy, spoke with NPR about a mysterious signal detected by a dark matter experiment in South Dakota and what it could mean for the search to detect dark matter.

A Yale-led study, co-authored by Sterling Professor of Sociology and Natural Science and Director of the Human Nature Lab Nicholas Christakis, shows that machine learning can accurately predict how people perceive complex mixtures of odors, laying the groundwork to create a digital framework for understanding the sense of smell.

Jessica Lamont, Associate Professor of Classics, and David Knight, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, were recently awarded fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in the for the 2026-27 academic year.

Sarah Demers, Chair of the Physics Department and Professor of Physics, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field.

Leonid Glazman, Donner Professor of Physics, was awarded the Feenberg Memorial Medal along with two colleagues for "for transformative contributions to the many-body theory of interacting electrons, establishing the modern understanding of one-dimensional conductors, quantum Hall transport, and topological quantum phenomena."