# News Archive Sort & Filters close ## Filters Publish Date expand\_more 2025 (8) 2026 (13) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 21 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 21 results [### Three Society affiliates awarded grants for projects translating research into public good ](/news/2026/06/three-society-affiliates-awarded-grants-projects-translating-research-public-good) June 09, 2026 Three Society affiliates were among 20 Harvard faculty whose research projects were recently awarded grants through the Frontiers of Innovation for Societal Impact Fund. Administered through Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the fund... ![headshots of Noah Feldman, Daniel Lieberman, and Shriya Srinivasan](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2026-06/news%20photo.png?itok=aUow-ddp) [### In Memoriam: Senior Fellow Nur Yalman (1931 - 2026) ](/news/2026/06/memoriam-senior-fellow-nur-yalman-1931-2026) June 08, 2026 Senior Fellow Nur Yalman, also a professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies (emeritus), passed away in Istanbul on June 4, 2026, at the age of 95. Nur served as a Senior Fellow since 1993. In the words of the Society's Chair Noah Feldman... ![Nur Yalman](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2026-06/recollection-nur-yalman-thb.jpg?itok=ig6Ikn7l) [### Cracking the Code of ‘What the Nose Knows’ ](/news/2026/05/cracking-code-what-nose-knows) May 21, 2026 Mice rely on odors to find mates, avoid predators, identify food sources, and recognize their own pups. Yet how those crucial scents are organized — and understood by the brain — has remained mysterious. A recent study published in Cell , jointly led by... ![Headshots of Catherine Dulac and Xiaowei Zhuang](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Dulac%20Zhuang.png?itok=YZrhrwaQ) [### Exhibition organized by former Junior Fellow Victoria Almansa-Villatoro opens at Yale Peabody Museum ](/news/2026/05/exhibition-organized-former-junior-fellow-victoria-almansa-villatoro-opens-yale) May 14, 2026 Former Junior Fellow Vicky Almansa-Villatoro (2022 - 2025) was responsible for organizing a newly-opened exhibition exploring the origins of writing at Yale's Peabody Museum. Unfolding History: Writing in Ancient Egypt features 24 loans from the Brooklyn... ![photo of former JF Vicky Almansa-Villatoro at her exhibition](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Vicky%20exhibition.jpg?itok=Z_OaeH_I) [### Three Junior Fellows awarded Breakthrough Prizes ](/news/2026/04/three-junior-fellows-awarded-breakthrough-prizes) April 22, 2026 Two former Junior Fellows and one incoming Junior Fellow were among the recipients of this year's Breakthrough Prizes. The Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to former Junior Fellow David Gross (1966 - 69, pictured left). Gross... ![headshots of David Gross, Clay Cordova, and Carolina Figueiredo](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/breakthrough.png?itok=hNl9JVfp) [### Three former Junior Fellows awarded Guggenheim Fellowships ](/news/2026/04/three-former-junior-fellows-awarded-guggenheim-fellowships) April 22, 2026 Former Junior Fellows Kate Manne, Sarah McNamer, and Adam Mestyan (pictured left to right) were among this year's class of Guggenheim Fellows. Manne (2011 - 13) is currently a professor of philosophy at Cornell University, McNamer (1995 - 97, 1998 - 99)... ![headshots of Kate Manne, Sarah McNamer, and Adam Mestyan](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Guggenheim_0.png?itok=yhArRtWz) [### Junior Fellow Wendy Valencia Montoya wins Dobzhansky Prize ](/news/2026/04/junior-fellow-wendy-valencia-montoya-wins-dobzhansky-prize) April 22, 2026 Current Junior Fellow Wendy Valencia Montoya was awarded the Dobzhansky Prize , which is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist... ![Wendy Valencia-Montoya](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2026-04/2026_Dobzhansky_0.png?itok=RyOibIEU) [### Two former Junior Fellows elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences ](/news/2026/04/two-former-junior-fellows-elected-american-academy-arts-sciences) April 22, 2026 Two former Junior Fellows have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Isaiah Andrews (2014 - 16) and John L. Jackson, Jr. (1999 - 2002). Andrews, pictured on the left, is currently the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of... ![Headshots of Isaiah Andrews and John Jackson](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Andrews%20Jackson%20news.png?itok=Gh6gVAvE) [### Study published by current Junior Fellow investigates how dopamine–serotonin interactions shape reward-related behavior ](/news/2026/03/study-published-current-junior-fellow-investigates-how-dopamine-serotonin-interactions) March 15, 2026 A new study by Daniel Cardozo Pinto, a biologist and current Junior Fellow, has uncovered a neural circuit mechanism explaining how two key brain chemicals—dopamine and serotonin—work in opposition to regulate reward learning. The work, published in... ![Photo of Daniel Cardozo Pinto](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Daniel-Cardozo-Pinto_hex_w-AI.jpg?itok=3-58Aw8C) [### Junior Fellow Wendy Valencia Montoya wins Weintraub Award ](/news/2026/02/junior-fellow-wendy-valencia-montoya-wins-weintraub-award) February 26, 2026 Current Junior Fellow Wendy Valencia Montoya was a recipient of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes the exceptional achievements of graduate students in the biological sciences. Read the full press release here . ![Headshots of Weintraub award winners](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2026-02/weintraub-2026.png?itok=E3L_7D1B) [### Can a chatbot be a co-author? ](/news/2026/02/can-chatbot-be-co-author) February 20, 2026 When Strominger posed a complex problem about gluon amplitudes that had stumped him and his collaborators, the AI system successfully solved it after 12 hours of processing. The group then turned the results into a paper, which has been published as a... ![Alfredo Guevara (from left), Andrew Strominger, and David Skinner](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/2-13_Strominger_JY-1_1920.jpg?itok=LISIzFKG) [### Three former Junior Fellows awarded Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships ](/news/2026/02/three-former-junior-fellows-awarded-alfred-p-sloan-research-fellowships) February 17, 2026 Former Junior Fellows Yuan Cao (2021 - 24), Shriya Srinivasan (2020 - 23), and Xin Jin (2016 - 19) are three of the 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows. The fellowship is awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to early-career scholars who represent... ![silver candlestick](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/EC8A5211.jpg?itok=vg1rloW1) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")