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Twelve headshots of 2025 Wright Lab graduates
May 19, 2025
Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2025, including:  Yale Physics Ph.D. Graduates Sophia Hollick, ‘25 (advisor Reina Maruyama), “COSINE-...
Group of Yale Physics majors in hoodies with two faculty members posing for a picture in a classroom.
May 19, 2025
The Howard L. Schultz Prize, established in 1977 in honor of Howard, L. Schultz, ‘37 PhD, is awarded to outstanding seniors in the Yale Physics Department.  The awardees for...
headshot of Evan Craft.
May 13, 2025
Evan Craft, a fourth-year graduate student in Wright Lab assistant professor Ian Moult’s group, has been awarded a Graduate Fellowship from the Kavli Institute for...
Group of 5 people standing in front of wall; see caption for more details.
May 9, 2025
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 for outstanding...
8 Wright Lab Relativistic Heavy Ion group members standing in front of Quark Matter 2025 logo.
May 1, 2025
From April 6-12, numerous past and present members of the Wright Lab Relativistic Heavy-Ion Group (RHIG) joined 950 scientists in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, for the 31st...
Moore group meeting.
April 30, 2025
Wright Lab associate professor David Moore was one of four faculty members to receive the 2025 Graduate Mentor Award from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS...
Tyler Johnson working on an instrument for the RAY experiment.
April 30, 2025
Wright Lab postdoctoral associate Tyler Johnson was awarded the 2025 Springer Thesis Prize.   Johnson’s award-winning thesis from his Ph.D. at Duke University is “The First...
Group of people who were inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma standing smiling in a lecture hall with seats behind them.
April 29, 2025
On April  21, 2025, Yale Physics inducted twenty-five members from the undergraduate classes of 2025 and 2026 to Sigma Pi Sigma, the official honor society of the physics and...
Arina Telles with thesis defense committee.
April 25, 2025
On Thursday, April 10, Arina Telles successfully defended the thesis “Microwave Techniques for Neutrino Mass Measurement” (advisor: Karsten Heeger). Telles explained, “...
breakthrough prize flyer with images of the four experiments on it.
April 25, 2025
Six Wright Lab faculty members and their groups —Keith Baker, Helen Caines, Sarah Demers, John Harris, Laura Havener, and Paul Tipton—were honored for their work on...