Honors

January 17, 2023
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum has received the Royal Astronomical Society’s Jackson-Gwilt Medal for innovations in instrumentation. Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum...
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November 1, 2022
The Yale Graduate School Alumni Association (GSAA) is excited to announce the appointment of Jia Chen (’00 Ph.D., Physics) as current chair of the board. Chen is a Global...
October 21, 2022
Physics postdoc alum Danielle Speller,  who is an assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University,  has been awarded a 2022 ...
October 6, 2022
Each year faculty across Yale develop new technologies and launch startups addressing global challenges. From improving human health and addressing climate change, to...
September 6, 2022
Steven Girvin, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, and Kevin Smith, laboratory associate, have won the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE HPEC conference for their paper...
August 22, 2022
Priyamvada Natarajan, a theoretical astrophysicist who maps the unseen universe — invisible entities like dark matter, black holes, and dark energy — whose presence can only...
August 19, 2022
Iris Ponce Pinto of Yale University has been chosen as the Graduate Student representative on the  American Physical Society (APS) Division of Particles & Fields (...