Louisa Lombard was awarded a 2017 Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching. Established by the Poorvu family to recognize and enhance Yale’s strength in interdisciplinary teaching, the award is made to outstanding untenured faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching in... Read more
Louisa Lombard has been awarded research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation for her project, “Ethics in Wars of Protection.” The research explores how military peacekeepers understand themselves as ethical actors.... Read more
This article is part of a special issue in Environmental Humanities titled “Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial/Making Our Planet Alien.” The issue brings together anthropologists, historians, and scientists on the topic of why outer space matters, humanistically. Having studied this topic for a... Read more
A new study by Catherine Panter-Brick, Raja Dajani, Kristen Hadfield, Stan van Uum, Michael Greff shows that a humanitarian program to improve the mental health of adolescents affected by the Syrian war has a biological benefit of decreasing levels of cortisol (a hormone associated with stress) by... Read more
A new study by Eric Sargis, Virginie Millien, Neal Woodman and Link E. Olson has exposed the common treeshrew, a small and skittish mammal that inhabits the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, as an ecogeographical rule breaker.
“Determining the causes of geographical variation within a species is... Read more
Fourth year PhD student Amanda Leiss was recently awarded the Leakey Foundation Research Grant for her dissertation project titled: Paleoenvironmental context of Early Stone Age Archaeology: An analysis of the Gona fauna between ~3 and 1 Ma. Amanda has been working at Gona, in Ethiopia, since 2010... Read more
The study shows that contrary to expectations of the inbreeding avoidance hypothesis female owl monkeys do not delay puberty, but rather commence ovarian cycling while residing in their natal group. It seems likely then that adults use behavioral mechanisms to prevent subadults from reproducing... Read more
