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A team of Yale postdoctoral associates and graduate students, including 4 members of Yale’s Wright Lab, coordinated the 2026 Pint of Science Festival.

Yale recognized Air Force, Naval, and Army ROTC graduates who are now among the nation’s newest military officers.

The Yale Physics Department annually selects students  for the Howard L. Schultz Prize and the DeForest Pioneers Prize.

Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2026.

The University has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the development of Upper Science Hill, which includes Wright Lab.

DUNE will study nature’s most mysterious particle a mile beneath South Dakota’s Black Hills and will potentially reveal the origins of matter.

Yale physicist Satish Dhawan was honored as a living contributor. Vernon Hughes (1921-2003) was a leader in the second generation of the experiment.

Wright Lab’s George Ploumis and Henry Kaplan designed an interactive sound installation for the Guggenheim museum as part of a Yale course.

The book celebrates the incredible ingenuity, curiosity, and contributions of Iowans in scientific fields from astronomy to zoology.

On April 20, Yale Physics inducted 41 undergraduates to Sigma Pi Sigma, the official honor society of the physics and astronomy professions.

During Spring Break, Morgan Knuesel traveled to Washington, DC to advocate for science policy in the annual Yale Science Policy Hill Day program. 

The Yale Fiberview Camera—designed, built, and installed by a team at Wright Lab—is an integral part of the efficiency & precision of the DESI survey.

Josie Rose and Katie Ream were awarded the 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Bradyn Quintard and 2 alumni were awarded honorable mention.

Garg has been appointed to a two-year term on the executive board of the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors.

DUNE was named the Project of the Year by the Underground Construction Association for completing a significant and challenging construction project.

Cantway’s thesis focuses on understanding the strong force, improving our understanding of jet-QGP interactions and hadronization.

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.

Two direct-detection experiments see no evidence of a signal reported by their predecessor.