Honors

Elie Track (Ph.D. Yale University, 1988) receives the 2020 IEEE CSC - Max Swerdlow Award

September 25, 2020
Elie Track graduated with a Ph.D. from Yale Physics in 1988 (with Prof. Dan Prober’s group). He is a founder and CEO of nVizix LLC, a company that focuses on developing and...
Shruti Puri (Assistant Professor in Applied Physics)

Shruti Puri (Assistant Professor in Applied Physics) has been named a Regional Award Finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

September 23, 2020
Shruti Puri who is currently an Assistant Professor in the Applied Physics Department was a Finalist in the 2020 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists, which were...

Joseph Shomar (Graduate Student) has won a 2020 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

June 5, 2020
Congratulations to Joseph Shomar (Graduate Student with Damon Clark) upon winning a 2020 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship! The following outstanding scholars have been...

Kelly Backes (Graduate Student) and Emma Castiglia (Graduate Student) have been named co-recipients of the 2019-2020 D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship in Physics

June 3, 2020
It is a pleasure to announce that Kelly Backes and Emma Castiglia have been named co-recipients of the 2019-2020 D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship in Physics. Kelly Backes...

Luna Zagorac (Graduate Student with Nikhil Padmanabhan) has been selected as a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) recipient

June 2, 2020
Luna Zagorac (Graduate Student with Nikhil Padmanabhan) has been selected as a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) recipient with...
Photo credit: CCAM/Yale Wright Laboratory/Monique Atherton

Wright Lab graduate student Ako Jamil awarded honorable mention for 2020 GIRA Award

May 29, 2020
Wright Lab graduate student Ako Jamil has been awarded honorable mention for the competitive Graduate Instrumentation Research Award (GIRA) for his project “Development of...
Top left to bottom right: Sam Borden, Tim Foldy-Porto, Stuart Nicholls, and Elizabeth Ruddy. No photo Lukas Baker and PJ Tuckman

Howard L. Schultz and DeForest Pioneer Prize recipients for Yale College Class of 2020

May 22, 2020
Congratulations to Lukas Baker (YC’2020) Mathematics & Physics Major, Sam Borden (YC’2020) Physics (Int.) Major, Tim Foldy-Porto (YC’2020) Physics (Int.) Major, Stuart...