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An article in The Guardian highlights how AI has been used to uncover hundreds of previously unknown theorems in the notebooks of Kurt Gödel, written in the early 1940s after he joined the Institute's School of Mathematics. The notebooks shed light on Gödel’s claim that he had proved the independence of the axiom of choice before another IAS mathematician won the 1966 Fields Medal for the result.

The Institute for Advanced Study has joined with the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science and the Weizmann Institute of Science to establish the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC), a new institution dedicated to fundamental, curiosity-driven research and scholarly collaboration across geographic and disciplinary boundaries.

Martti Nissinen, Member (2008–09, 2016) and Visitor (2011) in the School of Historical Studies, has received the honorary title of Academician of Science, the highest honor that can be bestowed on any individual scholar in Finland. His work has "significantly enhanced our understanding of how biblical texts were formed," placing them within the broader context of the ancient Near East. 

Julia L. Hairston, Felix Gilbert Member (2016) in the School of Historical Studies, has received the 2026 Josephine Roberts Award for a Scholarly Edition from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. She received the prize for an edition of Tullia d’Aragona's The Wretch, the only English translation of the first epic poem written by an Italian woman.