Graduate Student Honors

April 30, 2026
The Yale department of physics has awarded a Leigh Page Prize to Avi Kaufman, incoming graduate student. Kaufman just completed his undergraduate studies in computer science...
April 30, 2026
Mary Becker, part of the incoming graduate student class, was awarded the Sterling Prize Fellowship. Becker graduated in May 2026 with dual degrees in Physics, with a Modern...
April 16, 2026
Yale Physics graduate students Brandon Choi+, Katie Ream*, Josie Rose*; and undergraduate student Zachary Zitzewitz and undergraduate alum Richard Li ’23 (currently at D-Wave...
February 19, 2026
Graduate student Morgan Knuesel from the Wright Lab Relativistic Heavy Ion Group (RHIG) was recently elected as the junior representative to the Diversity Office of the ALICE...
November 13, 2025
Yale Physics graduate student and member of  Wright Lab Talia Weiss recently traveled to Japan participate in the 63rd Pugwash Conference “80 Years After the Atomic Bombing...
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 (...