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Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies in the School of Historical Studies, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Onon Prize. The prize honors his "substantial contribution to scholarship," reflecting his deep expertise in the historical relations between China and Inner Asia from prehistory to the modern period.

Both of the scholars awarded this year’s Bancroft Prize have ties to IAS: Emilie Connolly, Member (2024–25) in the School of Historical Studies, and Beth Lew-Williams, Visitor (2015–16) in the School of Social Science. The New York Times announced the awards, describing the prize as "one of the most prestigious honors for scholars of American history."

A recent article in Science has highlighted a preprint publication authored by three IAS scholars from the School of Natural Sciences, including Roger Dashen Member Alfredo Guevara. Using ChatGPT-5.2 Pro, the scholars showed that a gluon-scattering interaction widely assumed to be impossible may actually occur.

In a recent Scientific American article, a paper on zero-knowledge proofs by computational complexity theorist Rahul Ilango, Member in the School of Mathematics, was described as “the most creative and most consequential paper in the field [...] at least in the past decade.”