Wright Lab associate professor of physics Reina Maruyama and Yale Presidential Visiting Scholar Shelly Lesher have been named 2020 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS).
Maruyama was honored for her “innovative and wide-ranging contributions to the experimental study of rare events and fundamental symmetries, especially the search for neutrinoless double beta decay, and for leadership in understanding the signature and nature of dark matter.”
Lesher was honored “for advocating on behalf of the essential role of physics education for all students.” Lesher, an associate professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, was a Yale Presidential Visiting Scholar during the 2019-2020 academic year and remains affiliated with Wright Lab and the Yale Department of Physics.