Honors

Four Wright Lab students and one alum have been awarded 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.

The Howard L. Schultz Prize, established in 1977 in honor of Howard, L. Schultz, ‘37 PhD, is awarded to outstanding seniors in the Physics Department.

Evan Craft, a graduate student in Wright Lab assistant professor Ian Moult’s group, has been awarded a KITP Graduate Fellowship.

Sarah Demers, professor of physics, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was among two faculty members who were awarded the William Clyde DeVane Award.

Wright Lab associate professor David Moore was one of four faculty members to receive the 2025 Graduate Mentor Award.

Wright Lab postdoctoral associate Tyler Johnson was awarded the 2025 Springer Thesis Prize.

Helen Caines was recently elected the Vice-Chair of the 2025 Executive Committee for the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Nuclear Physics.

Sarah Demers, professor of physics, has been appointed chair of the Yale University Department of Physics, effective July 1, 2025 for a 3-year term.

Moult was one of four Yale faculty members to win Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025. The fellowship recognizes early-career scientists and scholars.

The CHIME Collaboration—which includes researchers in professor Laura Newburgh’s group—has won the 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize.