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From left to right: Leticia Cunqueiro (ORNL); Sarah Charley (CERN-US protocol office); Friederike Bock (ORNL); Constantin Loizides (ORNL); Thomas (T.L.) Cubbage (Deputy Undersecretary of Science at the DOE); Hannah Bossi (Yale graduate student); Jim Siegrist (Director of High Energy Physics at the DOE); Kristen Ellis (Chief of Staff for the Undersecretary of Science at the DOE); Chris Fall (Director of the DOE Office of Science); Frederico Antinori (Padova/CERN); Mateusz Ploskon (LBL). Photo courtesy of B

A recent high-level visit from members of the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Energy to the ALICE experiment at the LHC at CERN

July 18, 2019
A recent high-level visit from members of the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Energy to the ALICE experiment at the LHC at CERN. Photo of the entourage in the ALICE cavern...

Ramamurti Shankar named the Gibbs Professor of Physics

July 16, 2019
Ramamurti Shankar, recently appointed as the J.W. Gibbs Professor of Physics, focuses his research on theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum field theory. Click...
Crystal installation. Image courtesy of COSINE-100 collaboration.

Wright Lab Professor Reina Maruyama awarded NSF grant for COSINE-100 experiment

July 11, 2019
Wright Lab Professor Reina Maruyama  was awarded a continuing grant from the NSF for her research program to study dark matter, “Testing DAMA with the COSINE Experiment...

New Faculty 2019-2020

July 10, 2019
Alison M. Sweeney, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Biographical Sketch Before joining the faculty at Yale, Alison Sweeney was...

Brooke Russell (Graduate Student with Bonnie Fleming) awarded 2019 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize

June 27, 2019
Wright Lab graduate student Brooke Russell has been awarded the 2019 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize.  The award, established in 1992 by Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS),...

Ben Machta (Assistant Professor of Physics) named Simons Investigator

June 25, 2019
MMLS Benjamin Machta Yale University Ben Machta examines how physical laws constrain the design principles of biological systems. His research uses statistical physics,...

Charles Ahn appointed the Malone Professor of Applied Physics

June 20, 2019
Charles H. Ahn, recently named as the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, focuses his research on the fabrication and characterization of the physical properties of...