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April 12, 2024
On Saturday, March 9, a team of researchers, technicians, and contractors was on campus to move a powerful (15.3 Tesla) superconducting magnet from professor Sean Barrett’s...
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April 12, 2024
In honor of World Quantum Day (April 14), Wright Lab celebrates the following efforts by our scientists to explore the applications of quantum science and sensing to tests of...
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April 12, 2024
Members of Yale Wright Laboratory (Wright Lab) and the surrounding community gathered on April 8 outside of Wright Lab on the top of the Pierson Sage Garage to view the solar...
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April 10, 2024
Congratulations to Wright Lab undergraduate student Rose Powers; who was awarded a 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP), along with Yale...
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April 10, 2024
On March 30, 2024, twenty teams of high school students from fifteen different schools from around Connecticut competed in the 24th annual Yale Physics Olympics. Over the...
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March 8, 2024
On March 4-6, 2024,  researchers from Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Flatiron Institute, and Argonne National Laboratory, who collaborate with Wright...
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March 6, 2024
Caines’ research has revealed important insights into the behavior of nuclear matter under extremes of temperature and density.   Helen Caines, a physicist whose research...
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March 1, 2024
Three Wright Lab faculty are featured in an article for Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences called “The biggest–and smallest–questions” about their work in...
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February 15, 2024
On Friday, February 2, 2024, the Undergraduate Yale Women in Physics (WiP+) held its first Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics - Yale Edition...
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February 13, 2024
Ian Moult, assistant professor of physics, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has won the  Wu-Ki Tung Award for Early-Career Research on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) ...