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 critical role that women and girls play in science and technology.
Yale Physics recognizes our outstanding community members, including:
Faculty with primary appointments in physics: Helen Caines, professor of physics; Sarah Demers, professor of Physics; Bonnie Fleming, professor of physics; Reina Maruyama, professor of physics; Laura Newburgh, assistant professor of physics; Rona Ramos, lecturer in physics and graduate services coordinator; Adriane Steinacker, senior lecturer in physics; Alison Sweeney, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of physics; and Meg Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics.
Faculty with secondary appointments in physics: Hui Cao (Applied Physics), Marla Geha (Astronomy), Priyamvada Natarajan (Astronomy), Shruti Puri (Applied Physics), and Diana Qiu (Mechanical Engineering)
Research scientists in physics: Amanda Holt Jones and Penny Slocum
Postdoctoral researchers in physics: Irem Altan, Yangyang Cheng (primary in the Law School), Isabella Graf, Laura Havener, Lea Marcotulli, Bianka Mecaj, Priyanka Singh, and Yuqi Zhu.
Postgraduate researchers in physics: Claire Laffan and Annie Polish
Graduate students in physics: Xiran Bai, Caitie Beattie, Maria Belota Moreno, Sanah Bhimani, Hannah Bossi, Naomi Brandt, Emma Castiglia, Katie Chang, Xinyi Chen, Harper Cho, Rachel Cooper, Allison Culbert, Kimmy Cushman, Arianna Garcia Caffaro, Caitlin Gish, Naomi Gluck, Elizabeth Glueck, Eleanor Graham, Sophia Hollick, Yunpeng Ji, Emily Kuhn, Toni Montalvo, Xiaowei Ou, Samantha Pagan, Joy Pajarla, Jingjing Pan, Iris Ponce, Ananya Rai, Lauren Saunders, Kirsty Scott, Mengwen Shi, Cassady Smith, Youqi Song, Sylvi Stoller, Arina Telles, Jenny Tian, Mira Varma, Jaya Venkatraman, Molly Watts, Talia Weiss, Sierra Weyhmiller, Angela White, Sierra Wilde, Jinming Yang, and Luna Zagorac.
Affiliated graduate students: Mary Lou Bailey (Applied Physics), Sumita Ghosh (Applied Physics), Lauren Mellenthin (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Ava Polzin (Astronomy), Sara Siwiecki (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), and Lucy Yu (Applied Physics).
Yale Physics also recognizes the undergraduate Women in Physics and graduate student Women in Physics+ groups (read more about them here), and the outreach group Girls’ Science Investigations.
In addition, the physics department is pleased to partner with the GAINS Network to host the 2022 Girls Advancing in STEM (GAINS) Conference on April 7-8, 2022 that will bring together high school girls with an interest in STEM from around the country with professionals from Yale University to explore STEM topics and careers. This conference will be held on Zoom and expected attendance is 250 students and teachers.