January 2024 News

January 8, 2024
Yale University’s Society of Physics Students (SPS) Chapter has been awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award by the SPS National Office for the fourth year in a row. With...
drawing of space with a galaxy and a nebula and a grid.
January 8, 2024
In the last few years there has been growing interest in low-frequency gravitational waves.  On June 29, 2023, after 15 years of searching, the North American Nanohertz...
January 5, 2024
Yale Physics (Intensive) major Barkotel Zemenu – a senior undergraduate researcher in Yale Wright Lab’s Moore Group and co-president of Yale Society of Physics Students (SPS...
Laura Havener at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
January 3, 2024
In an interview, Yale physicist Laura Havener talks about the sense of community that develops while working on an international physics experiment.   By Jim Shelton, Yale...
Three people standing in a hallway
January 2, 2024
On December 12, Kimmy Cushman successfully defended the thesis, “Stealth Dark Matter with Lattice Field Theory” (advisor: George Fleming). Kimmy explained, “Dark matter makes...