Honors

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

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.

Research undertaken by David Moore’s group has been selected by “Physics World” as one of the Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2024.

John Harris is the 2024 recipient of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) Mentoring Award.

Wright Lab’s Richard Casten, professor Emeritus of physics, was interviewed by David Zierler for the AIP Oral History Interviews.

The departments of physics & chemistry and Wright Lab hosted a two-day symposium in celebration of the career of the J.W. Gibbs Professor Emeritus.