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Caines elected to APS DNP Executive Committee

February 28, 2025
Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was recently elected the Vice-Chair of the 2025 Executive Committee for the American...

ALPHA experiment reaches milestone towards the search for dark matter

February 28, 2025
The Axion Longitudinal Plasma Haloscope (ALPHA) experiment reached a milestone on February 24 with the successful installation of a Bluefors helium dilution fridge at the...

Unlocking the Secrets of a Superconductor

February 21, 2025
Yale Engineering recently published an article about Sohrab Ismail-Beigi’s, Strathcona Professor of Applied Physics and professor of physics, research on superconductors....
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Sarah Demers appointed chair of the Yale Department of Physics

February 21, 2025
Sarah Demers, professor of physics and an experimental particle physicist, has  been appointed chair of  the Yale University Department of Physics. Her term will be for three...
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