February 2022 News

February 7, 2022
February 11th is the 7th International Day of Women and Girls in Science.  This annual celebration, initiated by a resolution of the United Nations in 2015, recognizes the...
Wright Lab graduate student Samantha Pagan works on muon veto system taggers. Photo by Iris Ponce.
February 4, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) nuclear physics program is pursuing an international strategy to fund three tonne-scale experiments–CUPID, nEXO and LEGEND-1000–that...
February 2, 2022
Preliminary planning has begun on the Physical Science and Engineering Building (PSEB), a new more-than-$350 million facility earmarked for completion in 2027 that will...
Illustration by Sandbox Studio, Chicago with Ana Kova
February 1, 2022
Reina Maruyama, professor of physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, is featured in an article in Symmetry Magazine called “Building the Quantum Workforce” by Amanda...
February 1, 2022
In recent years, scientists have been able to transmit light through opaque surfaces, such as white paint or human tissue, which had once been considered impossible. However...