Honors

Jeremy Cushman (Graduate Student) and William Thompson (Graduate Student) won poster prizes at TAUP 2017

July 31, 2017
Jeremy Cushman won the first prize, and William Thompson was a runner-up for posters at TAUP 2017 Conference (Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics) http://...

Helen Caines (Professor of Physics) has been elected co-spokesperson of the STAR experiment

July 13, 2017
Helen Caines, Professor of Physics, has been elected co-spokesperson of the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. STAR is...

Andrew Gasbarro (Graduate Student) has received a DOE-SCGSR Award

June 7, 2017
Andrew Gasbarro (Graduate Student) has received a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award in response to the SCGSR Solicitation...

Howard L. Schultz and DeForest Pioneer Prize recipients for Yale College class of 2017

May 24, 2017
Congratulations to Anthony Dai Gagliardi (ES 2017) Physics (Int.) major, Kenneth Gregory Jackson  (JE 2017) Physics (Int.) major, Jacob Justin Marks  (PC 2017)  Physics (Int...

Stefan Krastanov (Graduate Student) has won a Prize Teaching Fellowship for 2017-2018

May 18, 2017
Stefan Krastanov (Graduate Student) has won a Prize Teaching Fellowship from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for 2017-2018 for teaching in 2016-2017. This award...

Elizabeth Cady van Assendelft has won an AWIS Kirsten R. Lorentzen Award

May 11, 2017
Elizabeth Cady van Assendelft (YC’2019 Physics (Intensive) Major) has won an AWIS Kirsten R. Lorentzen Award from the American Institute of Physics, Society of Physics...

Professor Nikhil Padmanabhan was awarded the 2017 Dylan Hixon '88 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics

May 4, 2017
Nikhil Padmanabhan (Associate Professor of Physics) was awarded the 2017 Dylan Hixon ‘88 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The prize is...