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December 14, 2023
On December 9, fifteen local high school students from Yale Pathways to Science came to Wright Lab to participate in a unique intersection of art and physics.   Celín Hidalgo...
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December 13, 2023
Several current and alumni members of the Yale Astronomy and Physics departments, including members of Yale’s Wright Lab, have contributed to a book, currently...
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December 11, 2023
A new report suggesting national particle physics priorities for the next decade and beyond includes an array of Yale research efforts. On December 8, the High Energy Physics...
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December 8, 2023
From November 26-December 1, 2023,  members of the Wright Lab research community attended and presented their research at DNP 2023 in Hawaii, which is the fall meeting of the...
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November 30, 2023
Late October and early November was a time for Yale Physics graduate recruiting efforts. Students and faculty represented Yale Physics at the 2023 SACNAS National Diversity...
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November 29, 2023
Satish Dhawan, senior research scientist in physics, is one of the longest-serving members of the Yale Physics Department, with more than 55 years of service to Yale.  ...
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November 16, 2023
Xiran Bai, graduate student in physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has received a Dean’s Emerging Scholar Award. The award is given to those who exhibit...
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November 15, 2023
On November 4th, the Yale Physics Department, in collaboration with Yale Pathways to Science, welcomed over 100 local middle school students to explore the “World of Light”...
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November 14, 2023
On November 14, Tong Liu successfully defended the thesis “Inclusive Hadron Yield Analysis in Small and Mid-sized Collision Systems at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV at STAR” (advisor:...
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November 13, 2023
Charles D. Brown II, assistant professor in physics, and an alumnus of Yale’s Wright Lab, has been awarded the Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence by the American...