Honors

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

Demers’ team will use the DOE funding for its work on the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab.

The QBio team of researchers will use the funding towards a or Protein Ensemble Modeling collaboration project.

Chiara Mingarelli was one of three Yale faculty members recognized for their scholarly achievements in their respective fields.

Leonid  Glazman, Donner Professor of Physics, has been elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).

Yale physicist Satish Dhawan was honored as a living contributor. Vernon Hughes (1921-2003) was a leader in the second generation of the experiment.

Congratulations Pratiti !

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

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.

Mary Becker, part of the incoming graduate student class, was awarded the Sterling Prize Fellowship.

Morgan Knuesel elected as the junior representative to the Diversity Office of the ALICE collaboration at the LHC.

Talia Weiss recently traveled to Japan to participate in the 63rd Pugwash Conference.

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.