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February 5, 2021
February 11th is the 6th International Day of Women and Girls in Science.  This annual celebration, initiated by a resolution of the United Nations in 2015, recognizes the...
(c) Yale News. Asher Liftin ’21 admiring the new portrait of Edward Bouchet. (Photos: Jessica Smolinski)
February 1, 2021
This month we are celebrating Black History Month. In the Yale Physics Department, we recognize Edward Bouchet, the first black person to earn a Ph.D. from an American...
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January 26, 2021
Yale News (January 26, 2021), “Rethinking the fundamental way electrons interact in superconducting quantum materials” by Jim Shelton. Scientists have discovered a new twist...
Screenshot from Fermilab Arts and Lecture Series Webinar
January 22, 2021
Wright Lab’s professor of physics Bonnie Fleming has collaborated in the composition of a new piece of music called “MicroBooNE” by David Ibbett, the first composer-in-...
A view of the focal plate for the Mosaic3 camera. Photo credit: Yale Physics Department/Tom Hurteau
January 15, 2021
In 2015,  physics department researchers, including Charles Baltay, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and professor of astronomy; David Rabinowitz, senior research...