Honors

August 3, 2026
Prakhar Garg, research scientist and a member of Wright Lab, has been elected as a member of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (...
Daniel Mladek commencement 2026
July 28, 2026
Daniel Mladek, YC’26 Physics (Intensive) and Humanities double-major and a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, received a Robert C. Bates Yale Postgraduate Fellowship which will help...
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 20, 2026
Daniel Mladek, YC’2026 double major in Physics (Intensive) and Humanities and a member of Sigma Pi Sigma,  and Andrew Nupp, YC’2026 double major in Physics (Intensive) and...
July 14, 2026
The Leigh Page Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching recognizes broad and impactful contributions to physics education at Yale, both within our department and the...
Tonima Tasmin Ananna
June 16, 2026
Tonima Tasnim Ananna, PhD 2019 and currently an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Wayne State University in Detroit, was featured in the July 2026 issue of ...
Chiara Mingarelli portrait
June 3, 2026
Chiara Mingarelli, assistant professor of physics, was awarded the  Arthur  Greer  memorial Prize in recognition of her instrumental work launching a new area of research in...