
Management researcher Fadel Matta studied 10,000 nights of after work recovery to find the patterns that maximize the benefit of our limited downtime.

Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd, the university’s newest Regents’ Professors, delivered the 2026 Charter Lecture, an event established in 1988 to honor the university’s founding ideals. The lecture highlighted how their research, spanning more than three decades, has progressed from theoretical inquiry to addressing urgent global challenges.

Last week, U.S. juries delivered two verdicts holding Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta and YouTube liable for endangering physical and mental health. Whether or not the verdicts hold up under appeal, legal studies professors Lindsay Sain Jones and Tim Samples say the moment could mark a new approach to regulating digital services.