Honors

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...
Eric Humphries, Liang Liang, and Diana Y. Qiu
February 17, 2026
Yale’s John Eric Humphries, Liang Liang, and Diana Y. Qiu have received 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars....
Priyamvada Natarajan
February 16, 2026
Priyamvada Natarajan, the Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor and Chair of Astronomy and professor of physics in FAS, has been named to New India Abroad’s inaugural “...
PhysCon 2025 attendees
November 20, 2025
Six Yale Physics undergraduates—Nathan Burns, Shwetlana Jha, Nikita Mazotov, Diya Naik, Jared Wyetzner, and Iffat Zarif—attended the 2025 Physics and Astronomy Congress (...
November 13, 2025
Karsten Heeger, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and director of Yale’s Wright Lab, was elected to the Executive Committee for the American Physical Society (APS) Division...
November 13, 2025
Yale Physics graduate student and member of  Wright Lab Talia Weiss recently traveled to Japan participate in the 63rd Pugwash Conference “80 Years After the Atomic Bombing...