June 2021 News

June 20, 2021
Xinyi Chen, graduate student in physics with Nikhil Padmanabhan, was awarded a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology award last June. FINESST...
Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, Zili Shen (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Shany Danieli (IAS). Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
June 18, 2021
In Yale News (June 17, 2021), “Going the distance to confirm a galaxy with almost no dark matter” Three years ago, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum...
June 9, 2021
From Yale News (June 7, 2021) “Students earn top Yale College prizes for their accomplishments” Russell Henry Chittenden Prize Awarded to the graduating senior majoring in...
Participants were treated to a brief tour by David Moore of the SIMPLE experiment.
June 4, 2021
On Thursday, June 3, 36 local students from grades 6-12 and their families attended a Zoom event called Exploring the Invisible Universe:  Searching for Dark Matter at...
The 1400 degrees home page features both Maruyama (bottom left) and Fischer (bottom right)
June 4, 2021
On June 1, the Heising-Simons Foundation announced the launch of the 1400 Degrees website, a robust directory highlighting the extraordinary achievements and contributions...