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January 12, 2024
James Nikkel, research scientist and director of the Wright Lab Advanced Prototyping Center (APC), and his collaborators in the APC, the Yale School of the Environment, and...
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January 12, 2024
Two experiments with Wright Lab involvement, ALPHA and MAST-QG, have been chosen—along with nine other innovative “tabletop” experiments, out of hundreds of initial proposals...
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January 5, 2024
Yale Physics (Intensive) major Barkotel Zemenu – a senior undergraduate researcher in Yale Wright Lab’s Moore Group and co-president of Yale Society of Physics Students (SPS...
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January 3, 2024
In an interview, Yale physicist Laura Havener talks about the sense of community that develops while working on an international physics experiment.   By Jim Shelton, Yale...
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December 18, 2023
On December 15, the students from the physics department independent research courses PHYS 469 (for first years and sophomores) and PHYS 471 (for juniors and seniors)...
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December 15, 2023
On December 4, 2023, the Yale Society of Physics Students (SPS) hosted Professor Roxanne Guenette from the University of Manchester as the fifth guest of honor and speaker...
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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...