July 2026 News

The Mu2e tracking detector that Sarah Demers and her team at Fermilab helped assemble, test, and install.  Photo by Ryan Postel
July 22, 2026
Sarah Demers, professor of physics and chair of the physics department, is one of two  Yale researchers who have received funding awards from the U.S. Department of Energy’s...
July 16, 2026
On June 30, Glenn Richardson successfully defended the thesis “Probing the Universe with 136Xe - The Physics Reach of nEXO” (advisor: David Moore). Richardson...
Woman with a piece of scientific equipment
July 14, 2026
QuantumCT, a public-private quantum research initiative led by UConn and Yale, will receive a two-year, $15 million award to help advance American quantum innovation. The U.S...
July 14, 2026
On July 7, Taylor Schaffner successfully defended the thesis “Plasma Membrane-Embedded Post-Translational Modification Networks Can Drive Self-Organized Criticality in Lipid...
Physicists Nir Navon, left, and Jianyi Chen, in Navon’s lab at Yale.   Photo by Allie Barton
July 9, 2026
Fermi’s “Golden Rule” is a formula that connects theoretical quantum mechanics and what scientists observe in experiments, yet it is often misapplied. A new study by Yale...