The ambassador presented K. David Jackson – chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies and Professor of Portuguese – with the honor of Comendador of the “Order of Camões,” which is awarded for distinguished service to the Portuguese language and culture and is conferred by the president of the Republic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Valdivieso, Assistant Professor of Classics, was selected as one of 63 scholars "poised to make original and significant contributions to their field."

Lakhous, a multilingual writer and author of six novels, received the Jesse Howard, Jr. Rome Prize in recognition of his work in modern Italian Studies.

Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History, joined a panel of other Native historians to discuss what “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” meant for Indigenous communities.

The Emerson Award, awarded annually, recognizes “a book of scholarly studies that contributes significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.”

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.