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April 2025 News

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...
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...
Sophia Hollick standing with thesis defense committee and smiling.
April 10, 2025
On March 28, Sophia Hollick successfully defended the thesis “COSINE-100 and ANAIS-112: Two Experiments, One Search for the Annual Modulation of Dark Matter” (advisor: Reina...
3 headshots of Wright Lab NSF GRFP 2025 winners.
April 10, 2025
Wright Lab graduate student Eunice Beato, undergraduate Aaron Chizhik, and undergraduate alum Laura Zhou (now at Stanford University) were each awarded the 2025 National...
people smiling in front of APS sculputre.
April 4, 2025
The 2025 Joint March and April meetings of the American Physical Society (APS)—referred to as the APS Global Physics Summit—was a scientific research conference that brought...