Honors

Carnegie Mellon University has awarded its 2026 Dickson Prize in Science to trailblazing Yale astrophysicist Meg Urry.

Yale physicist Chiara Mingarelli was cited for contributions in pulsar timing array theory and gravitational-wave astrophysics.

David Moore, associate professor of physics, has been named a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator.

Peter Morgan video wins a Curt Jaimungal’s Competition for Outstanding Research Explanation

The Feenberg Award for 2026 has been jointly awarded to Matthew Fisher (UCSB), Leonid Glazman (Yale University), and Charles Kane (U Pennsylvania).

The RHIC & AGS Users’ Executive Committee exists to keep communication flowing between BNL’s administration and the scientists who use it.

Congratulations Pratiti !

Tyler Johnson is a Yale Physics postdoctoral associate and a member of Wright Lab.

Two of the three honorees of the 2026 APS Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) are Wright Lab alumni: Danielle Norcini ‘19 PhD and Jiaxiang Wang ‘25 PhD.

Xinze Yang received a Best Poster Award, at the 2026 International Conference on Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors (SNS).

The Yale Physics 2025-2026 D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship is shared by Emily Pottebaum and Molly Watts.

The Leigh Page Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching recognizes broad and impactful contributions to physics education at Yale.

Yale Physics graduate students Brandon Choi, Katie Ream, Josie Rose; and undergraduate student Zachary Zitzewitz were each awarded the 2026 NSF-GRFP.

The Yale department of physics has awarded a Leigh Page Prize to Avi Kaufman, incoming graduate student.

Daniel Mladek, YC’2026, received a Robert C. Bates Yale Postgraduate Fellowship which will help fund his research abroad.

Mladek and Nupp, both members of YC’2026, were two of three-dozen recent graduates who received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Andrew Rice ’2019 is  one of six Yale alumni who were recently named Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University.

Yale Physics undergraduates Simon Britton, Jeb Cui, Nina Liu, and Noah Silverberg awarded the YSEA’s Seniors of Distinction Award for 2025-2026.

The Yale Physics Department congratulates the following students who were part of the Yale ROTC program and will be joining the U.S. armed services.

Congratulations to twelve members of the Yale College class of 2026 for the Howard L. Schultz Prize and the Deforest Pioneers Prize.

Daphne has supported the Yale Physics Department since 2004.