The new members, who have made key contributions in a range of fields, join previously elected fellows in helping to “advance the common good” across the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.

Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis recognized four recipients of the college’s annual teaching prizes—who span all three divisions of the FAS—during a campus reception.

Shirley Wang, Assistant Professor of Psychology, is working alongside Christine B. Cha, Associate Professor at Yale's Child Study Center, to use smartphone data to understand the harms and benefits of social and digital media use.

Nick Turk-Browne, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Professor of Psychology, and his colleagues have managed to scan the brains of a growing number of little kids. They’ve discovered that kids as young as a year old do appear to be forming memories.

Wendy Berry Mendes, whose research has transformed how we understand the effects of stress on cognition, social processes, and physiology, joined the Yale faculty in 2023.

Nicholas Turk-Browne, a renowned cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on human learning and memory, is also director of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute.

In a Q&A, cognitive neuroscientist Randolph Helfrich, Assistant Professor of Psychology, discusses the mystery of cognition, the interdisciplinary breadth of the neuroscience spectrum, and the lure of a San Francisco sourdough.

With state-of-the-art research facilities and collaborative spaces, Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute is on a mission to understand human cognition by bridging academic disciplines.

In a Q&A, Melissa Ferguson, Professor of Psychology, explains how “mouse-tracking” gives researchers a better glimpse into how people really summon self-control in the face of temptation — or fail to.

Samuel McDougle, Assistant Professor of Psychology, was awarded a 2024–25 Arthur Greer Memorial Prize from the FAS for his groundbreaking work to understand how cognition interacts with the body’s movements.