Media coverage

My research has garnered significant attention from prominent media outlets, highlighting its global relevance and societal impact. A notable achievement includes my participation in the research on King Richard III, which was featured in a British documentary produced with my team.

Beyond documentaries, my work has been frequently highlighted in written media, showcasing its interdisciplinary and accessible nature.

Featured Documentary

Selected Highlights

Press Coverage

Recent Coverage

• Pig’s blood is back, but is Singapore hungry for it? — The Straits Times, August 2026
• World’s oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers find — Live Science, September 2025
• Ancient Egyptians suffered from plagues of parasitic worms and lice — Deseret News, 8 April 2024
• How to start exercising or just get moving when every part of your body says ‘no’ — TODAY

The Silk Road Latrine Discovery (2016)

• Ar-bæ-ologi — Weekendavisen, 12 August 2016 (in Danish)
• Silk Road Transported Goods—and Disease — Scientific American (podcast), 29 July 2016
• Ancient “Poop Sticks” Offer Clues to the Spread of Disease Along the Silk Road — Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2016
• 2,000-Year-Old Feces from the Silk Road Reveal Spread of Infectious Diseases — Ancient Origins, 23 July 2016
• How we discovered infectious diseases in 2,000-year-old faeces from the Silk Road — The Conversation, 22 July 2016
• Ancient poop shows how diseases may have spread along the Silk Road — Science, 22 July 2016
• Ancient faeces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road — Horizon, University of Cambridge (Issue 40), 22 July 2016
• Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road — Phys.org, 21 July 2016
• NTU researcher found early evidence for travel with infectious diseases along the Silk Road — NTU Press Release

King Richard III (2013)

• Into the bowels: Richard III’s remains riddled with roundworms — NBC News, 4 September 2013

University & Institutional Features

• Digging in the dirt to uncover the clues of the past — Pushing Frontiers, NTU’s research and innovation magazine (Issue 21)
• Constellations, Issue 13 — NTU School of Humanities
• Ivy Yeh leads team to victory in 2nd ACE Grant Call — Research News, NTU School of Humanities, 3 August 2019
• Profile in Cambridge Infectious Diseases — An Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge
• History of health in the Chinese Bronze Age: Results from five seasons of the Mogou bioarchaeology project

Chinese-Language Media 中文媒體

• 中国社会科学基金重大项目《甘肃临潭陈旗磨沟遗址墓地多学科研究》中期推进会在兰州召开 — 搜狐, 2021年5月30日
• 郑州大学维骏考古沙龙第七期纪要 — 郑州大学历史学院, 2018年5月11日
• 中国西北沙漠发现两千年前厕所 古代粪便研究提供丝路疾病传播最早证据 — UFO发现网, 2017年6月4日
• 在絲路上發現最早的傳染病散播證據：古代的糞便 — 科技新報, 2016年9月3日
• “搅屎棍”揭秘真相：丝绸之路竟是传染病之路 — 壹读, 2016年7月27日
• 研究：古人丝路行 传染病带着走 — Yahoo 奇摩新聞, 2016年7月25日
• 英国研究2000年前的粪便 证实丝路是疫病传播之路 — BelfastChinese, 2016年7月25日
• 英媒：2000年前的粪便 证实丝路是疫病传播之路 — 观察者, 2016年7月23日
• 蘋果日報報導 — 蘋果日報, 2014年2月3日
• 人類系校友葉惠媛與指導教授Pier Mitchell共同發表古寄生蟲研究於醫學評選Lancet期刊 — 臺大校刊 (網路版)

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