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October 23, 2025
New FAS faculty member Harry McNamara is combining developmental biology, neurobiology, and biophysics to answer basic science questions about how cells communicate. Every...
October 22, 2025
Wright Lab graduate student Cecily Lowe was recently awarded the Marshall Plan Fellowship by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, which supports transatlantic knowledge...
Baeza-Rubio at awards announcement
October 13, 2025
Wright Lab graduate student Jackie Baeza-Rubio was awarded the best poster prize at the 24th International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (...
October 8, 2025
A 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Yale Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics Michel H. Devoret “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling...