2024 Hoodie Ceremony
    Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium
    Women in Physics
    Edward Bouchet mural by Kwadwo Adae on Henry Street, New Haven
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    Quantum sensors
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    PROSPECT assembly
    CUORE Cryostat

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November 26, 2025
Yale Physics graduate student Andrew Tamis, who is a member of Wright Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Group (RHIG), recently had a set of results from his thesis studies...
PhysCon 2025 attendees
November 20, 2025
Six Yale Physics undergraduates—Nathan Burns, Shwetlana Jha, Nikita Mazotov, Diya Naik, Jared Wyetzner, and Iffat Zarif—attended the 2025 Physics and Astronomy Congress (...
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November 20, 2025
Eun-Joo Ahn, lecturer in physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, presented “A Story of Physics at Yale” at the October 27 Physics Club. Physics Club is the main colloquium...
November 13, 2025
Karsten Heeger, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and director of Yale’s Wright Lab, was elected to the Executive Committee for the American Physical Society (APS) Division...