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  1. Each spring, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recognizes professors from each of four divisions for their advising and mentoring of Yale students.

    From left: Joseph Craft, Egor Lazarev, Ivan Loseu, and Jessica Peritz
  2. Yale’s Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of American Studies, has received a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to support his research into political polarization and to identify potential solutions.

    Daniel HoSang
  3. Gandhi, a political scientist, will serve as the FAS dean of faculty development for a five-year term.

    Jennifer Gandhi
  4. Industrialized lifestyles — and feeding infants with formula — are changing the gut microbiome in ways that significantly increase estrogen recycling, potentially affecting people’s health, according to a new Yale study co-authored by Richard Bribiescas, J. Clayton Stephenson/Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

    3D scientific illustration depicting the human gut microbiom
  5. FAS faculty are exploring the past, present, and future of democracy, and working to understand how it might change to keep pace with—and evolve alongside—our increasingly complex world.

    Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore helped manage a convention of French citizens tasked with reconsidering the country’s policies on assisted dying. Photo credit: Katrin Baumann/CESE
  6. Gregory Huber, ISPS interim director and Forst Family Professor of Political Science, presented data in which he and his co-authors undercut a dominant narrative that mass polarization is primarily driven by wildly exaggerated misperceptions of the other side.

    Gregory Huber discusses data showing how misperceptions drive polarization
  7. Rourke O’Brien, Associate Professor of Sociology, showed that expanding voting rights in 1975 improved material conditions for everyone and immediately reduced mortality for non-white groups. The findings were published in a recent co-authored working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

    Gerald-Ford-Voting-Rights-Act-of-1975-Rose-Garden
  8. 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.

    Top row, from left, Leah Platt Boustan, Daphne Brooks, Erika J. Edwards, and Vanessa Olivia Ezenwa. Second row, from left, Branden Jacobs Jenkins, Lisa Lowe, Joanne Meyerowitz, and Gideon Yaffe.   Photos courtesy of Yale units and departments. Photo of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, used with permission.
  9. A senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and Department of Economics, Amand explores stablecoins, international trade, and why the plumbing of global finance is suddenly a policy question.

    Marnix Amand
  10. New Haven is Yale’s home, but our impact is felt nationwide — in every state across America, in communities large and small. Explore Yale's impact across America with this interactive map.

    Map of the United States of America