February 11th is the 6th International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This annual celebration, initiated by a resolution of the United Nations in 2015, recognizes the critical role that women and girls play in science and technology.
Yale Physics recognizes our outstanding community members, including:
Faculty with primary appointments in physics: Helen Caines, professor of physics; Sarah Demers, Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics; Bonnie Fleming, professor of physics; Reina Maruyama, associate professor of physics; Laura Newburgh, assistant professor of physics; Rona Ramos, lecturer in physics and graduate services coordinator; Adriane Steinacker, senior lecturer in physics; Alison Sweeney, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of physics; and Meg Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics
Faculty with secondary appointments in physics: Hui Cao (Applied Physics), Marla Geha (Astronomy), Priyamvada Natarajan (Astronomy), and Diana Qiu (Mechanical Engineering)
Research scientists: Amanda Holt Jones and Penny Slocum
Postdoctoral researchers: Irem Altan, Zoe Aridor, Isabella Graf, Laura Havener, and Rachel Roettenbacher
Graduate students in physics: Kelly Backes, Xiran Bai, Caitie Beattie, Sanah Bhimani, Hannah Bossi, Emma Castiglia, Xinyi Chen, Rachel Cooper, Kimmy Cushman, Arianna Garcia Caffaro, Caitlin Gish, Sophia Hollick, Yunpeng Ji, Emily Kuhn, Samantha Pagan, Jingjing Pan, Mariel Pettee, Iris Ponce, Ananya Rai, Lauren Saunders, Kirsty Scott, Arina Telles, Jenny Tian, Jaya Venkatraman, Talia Weiss, Sierra Wilde, Jinming Yang, Luna Zagorac, Sisi Zhou, and Yuqi Zhu
Affiliated graduate students: Mary Lou Bailey (Applied Physics), Urmila Chadayammuri (Astronomy), Sumita Ghosh (Applied Physics), Ava Polzin (Astronomy), and Lucy Yu (Applied Physics)
Wright Lab community members are highlighted in italics.
Yale Physics also recognizes the undergraduate Women in Physics and graduate student Women in Physics+ groups (read more about them here), and the outreach group Girls’ Science Investigations.