News
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Knuesel advocates for science policy on Capitol Hill
During Spring Break, Morgan Knuesel traveled to Washington, DC to advocate for science policy in the annual Yale Science Policy Hill Day program.
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Garg appointed to CPAD Executive Board
Garg has been appointed to a two-year term on the executive board of the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors.
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Wright Lab students awarded 2026 NSF GRFP
Josie Rose and Katie Ream were awarded the 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Bradyn Quintard and 2 alumni were awarded honorable mention.
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Largest neutrino experiment in the US wins Project of the Year Award
DUNE was named the Project of the Year by the Underground Construction Association for completing a significant and challenging construction project.
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Sierra Cantway successfully defends thesis, "Probing jet hadrochemistry modification with measurements of identified particles in jets and the underlying event in pp and Pb–Pb collisions with ALICE"
Cantway’s thesis focuses on understanding the strong force, improving our understanding of jet-QGP interactions and hadronization.
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Yale Physics Olympics 2026
YPO hosted 28 high school teams from across the Northeast for a full day of competition. The program has been organized by Yale Physics since 1998.
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Experiments Refute Dark Matter Claim
Two direct-detection experiments see no evidence of a signal reported by their predecessor.
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UK Science & Technology Network and British American Parliamentary Group visit Wright Lab
The group visited Wright Lab while they were in New Haven, as well as the Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability and the Yale Center for British Art.
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Havener appointed to the US LHC Users Association Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is comprised of twelve members serving two-year terms, with six people elected each year.
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Wright Lab research represented at 2026 APS Global Physics Summit
Yale Physics was well-represented at the conference, with several members of Wright Lab presenting or represented as contributing authors.
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Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory
An article written by Wright Lab historian Eun-Joo Ahn on Mount Wilson Observatory was featured in a spotlight by the AIP.
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Andrew Tamis successfully defends thesis, "Measurement of Energy Correlators Within Jets at STAR"
Presents the first measurement of energy correlators at RHIC in proton-proton collisions, and introduces a method that will enable future measurements
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Chitres Guria successfully defends thesis, “Measuring the geometry and topology of non-Hermitian systems”
The thesis is study of Newtonian mechanics of a simple, but ubiquitous system of coupled classical harmonic oscillators, whose parameters can be tuned
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Benjamin Siegel successfully defends thesis, "Arrays of Optomechanically Levitated Microspheres"
Siegel’s research aims to realize large arrays of levitated objects for improving the sensitivity of beyond the Standard Model physics searches.
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Harris and Patil win Roberts Innovation Fund award for "Geometric Amplification of Laser Light"
Geometric Amplification will advance telecommunication hardware with greater power-efficiency, phase insensitivity, and greater tunability.
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Wright Lab hosts international exchange for outreach development
Verania Echaid Navarro, a Ph.D. student in Physics Education from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico visited Wright Lab in February.
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BNL-Yale collaboration in instrumentation development for the physical sciences
A group from Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Discovery Technologies Directorate visited the lab to discuss ongoing collaborations and new initiatives
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Malenkiy awarded Caltech WAVE Fellowship
Malenkiy will conduct research with President Rosenbaum, exploring quantum phase transitions via domain dynamics in microwave-driven quantum quenches.