May 19, 2025
Annually, the Physics Department selects students based on faculty nominations and academic achievement for the Howard L. Schultz Prize, awarded by the Physics Department, and the DeForest Pioneers Prize, awarded by the Yale Office of the Secretary. Congratulations to the prize winners for the class of 2025!
HOWARD L. SCHULTZ (1977). Howard L. Schultz, Ph.D. 1937. Awarded to outstanding seniors in the Physics department.
- Nathan Apfel*+ B.S., Mathematics & Physics. Advisor: Nir Navon. Senior Project, “Superfluid vortex excitations”.
- Wayne Ariston*+ B.S., Physics (Int.). Advisor: Nicholas Read. Senior Project, “Non-trivial eigenvalues of the Liouvillian in open quantum systems”.
- Timothy Atkeson*+ B.S., Physics (Int.). Advisor: Hong Tang. Senior Project: “Phase-Locking in a Fiber Optic Squeezed Light Setup”.
- Grant Fitez* B.S., Physics (Int.); member of Wright Lab. Advisor: Helen Caines. Senior Project, “Automation of LFHCal Tile Measurements”.
- Henry Kaplan+ B.S., Physics (Int.); member of Wright Lab. Advisor: Laura Havener. Senior Project, “Characterization of HRPPD tiles for the pfRICH detector at ePIC”.
- Alex Roseman*+ B.S., Physics (Int.). Advisor: Steven Zucker. Senior Project: “Optimal Transport to Compare Manifold Inference Results”.
- Misheal Saah. B.S., Mathematics & Physics. Advisor: Ian Moult. Senior Project: “Asymptotic Symmetries and Soft Theorems in Gravity: A Light-Ray Approach”.
DEFOREST PIONEERS (1960). Board of Directors of DeForest Pioneers, Inc., in honor of the outstanding scientific achievements of Lee DeForest, Ph.B. 1896. For a senior physics major for distinguished creative achievement in physics.
- Lane Healy. B.S., Physics (Int.). Advisor: Steven Konezny. Senior Project: “TensorHydrogen Doping of CuSCN for Increased Conductivity”.
*indicates distinction in the major
+ indicates induction into Sigma Pi Sigma