February 2026 News

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February 26, 2026
Donglin Wu, YC’2027 physics (intensive) major, leads a new study showing that some of the biggest stars in the universe shed some of the smallest dust particles. It’s fitting...
February 25, 2026
Vasilisa Malenkiy, YC’2027 Physics (Intensive) major and a Wright Lab undergraduate working with the David Moore group, was recently awarded the Caltech WAVE Fellowship for...
Karsten Heeger
February 20, 2026
Karsten Heeger recently began a three-year term on the American Physical Society (APS) Committee on International Scientific Affairs (CISA). The term runs from...
February 19, 2026
Graduate student Morgan Knuesel from the Wright Lab Relativistic Heavy Ion Group (RHIG) was recently elected as the junior representative to the Diversity Office of the ALICE...
Priyamvada Natarajan
February 18, 2026
Theoretical astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan has an instinct for the arts that illuminates her lifelong obsession with the universe. Her focus is dark matter, dark energy...