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May 2023 News

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May 23, 2023
Wright Lab welcomes Laura Havener, currently an associate research scientist in the Wright Lab Relativistic Heavy Ion Group (RHIG), to the Yale Physics faculty as an...
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May 22, 2023
Congratulations to Wright Lab undergraduates Tausif Hossain, Shayaan Subzwari,  Dawson Thomas, and Giovanna Truong, who; along with Olivia Aspegren, Nikhil Harle, Richard Li...
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May 22, 2023
Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2023, including: Ph.D. Graduates Benjamin Foust, ‘22 (advisor Karsten Heeger), “Precise Measurement of the U...
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May 16, 2023
On May 15, 2023, Wright Lab hosted a book launch for The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Oxford University Press, 2023), which Steve Lamoreaux,...
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May 12, 2023
Karsten Heeger, who does field-leading research in the study of neutrinos and neutrino mass, was recently appointed the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, effective...
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May 11, 2023
Wright Lab graduate student Matthew King has been named a Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Prize Teaching Fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year, along with...
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May 5, 2023
Wright Lab research Scientist James Nikkel and the Wright Lab Advanced Prototyping Center (APC) have been awarded, along with their collaborators, a Yale Planetary Solutions...
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May 5, 2023
On May 4, 2023, fourteen students from Waterbury’s Upward Bound Math Science program came to Wright Lab for a half-day’s worth of activities that included a...
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May 5, 2023
On April 11, 2023, Daniel Nemes successfully defended the thesis “Semi-Inclusive Measurement of the Shared Groomed Momentum Fraction of Jets in Au+Au Collisions at STAR” (...
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May 4, 2023
Samuel Moseley, visiting research fellow in physics, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was recently elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS)–one of the...