A Yale-led analysis of millions of animal movements reveals how the mere presence of people, not just landscape change, can reshape how species use space and environment, with implications for conservation efforts.

Craig Crews, John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology, will be honored as a recipient of the Yale Founders Award at the 2026 Yale Innovation Summit. Crews will be recognized for inventing an entirely new class of medicine now helping cancer patients worldwide, for building companies that translate discovery into treatment, and for his sustained commitment to the city and people of New Haven.

Joshua Kalla, Associate Professor of Political Science, will lead the new working group alongside two faculty members from Yale Law School. The group will work together to study how institutions can be designed and reformed to work more effectively for citizens.

A Yale-led study co-published by Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Professor of Anthropology, finds that Azara’s owl monkeys have gotten heavier as temperatures rise — a result that defies long-standing expectations about how animals adapt to warm climates.

"Unfolding History,” a new exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum curated by Egyptologist Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, was recently featured in the New Haven Independent.

For a new study, Christopher Lynn (Assistant Professor of Physics), who normally probes the complexity of thousands of neurons acting in concert, flips his perspective to look at behaviors of individual neurons.

Research from the lab of John Carlson, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, was profiled by Meteored UK.

Gundula Kreuzer, Professor of Music, spoke to the New York Times about the history behind the stage curtains at London's Royal Opera House and the role of the house curtains in opera.

A paper co-authored by Costas Arkolakis, Professor of Economics, used data from Connecticut on travel patterns and charging station locations to identify charging locations that would maximize total driver welfare.

In a course taught by Pauline Lin, a senior lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures, students examine China’s relationship with natural landscapes over time.