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May 2024 News

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May 31, 2024
Talia Weiss, graduate student in physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab working in the Karsten Heeger group on the Project 8 experiment, is a co-receipient of the Yale...
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May 31, 2024
Wright Lab hosted the 2024 ALICE-USA meeting from May 29-31.  The meeting included presentations to highlight and facilitate the research work of junior and senior...
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May 24, 2024
Wright Lab undergraduates Rose Powers and Barkotel Zemenu, along with undergraduates Finn Gibson (Mathematics & Physics), Rachel Merrill (Physics-Intensive), and Pranav...
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May 24, 2024
On May 3, members of the Yale Physics community gathered to celebrate the end of a successful academic year and to recognize the accomplishments of its members. The members...
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May 24, 2024
On May 15, the Yale History and Foundations of Physics Reading Group (HoFoP) held a discussion called, “How Does Physics Make it to the Museum,” along with a visit to the...
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May 20, 2024
Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2024, including: Yale Physics Ph.D. Graduates Varun Jorapur, ‘24 (advisor Steve Lamoreaux), “Towards a Bose-...
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May 17, 2024
The interdisciplinary conference Asian Americans and STEM 2024 was held at Yale’s Greenberg Conference Center on May 10. The meeting brought together over 60 people from 18...
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May 17, 2024
Wright Lab postdoctoral associates Fernando Flor, Pranav Sanghavi, and Jorge Torres coordinated the 2024 Pint of Science Festival in New Haven from May 13-15, 2024. The Pint...
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May 17, 2024
The Yale Physics Department annually selects oustanding seniors in the department for the Howard L. Schultz, Sr. PhD. ‘37  Prize; based on faculty nominations and academic...
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May 8, 2024
Nathan Borak, graduate student in physics, has been awarded a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR) grant from...