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

In May 2025, the Project 8 experiment team at Yale again hosted Asia Genawi, now a graduating high school senior, for a May Term Internship.

Wright Lab members presented at and attended the first Yale Center for the Invisible Universe (YCIU) workshop on May 30.

Ananya Rai successfully defended the thesis “Unveiling the Structure of the Perfect Superfluid using Correlation Functions” (advisor: Helen Caines)

On March 28, Sophia Hollick successfully defended a thesis on the search for the annual modulation of dark matter with COSINE-100 & ANAIS-112.

The ALPHA axion dark matter experiment reached a milestone with the successful installation of a Bluefors helium dilution fridge at Wright Lab.

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.