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March 17, 2025
On March 3, 2025, Zachary Sun successfully defended the thesis “Mechanics and Energetics of Cytoskeletal Assembly” (advisor: Michael Murrell). Sun explained, “Active matter...
March 11, 2025
On March 5, 2025, Yale Physics hosted the Hepsa Ely Silliman Lecture in the YSB Marsh Lecture Hall. This year’s speaker, Wendy L. Freedman of the University of Chicago...
March 4, 2025
Bjorn Larsen, graduate student working with Chiara Mingarelli, assistant professor of physics, was named a Hero of NANOGrav for “Bringing the Noise”. Larsen’s...
February 28, 2025
Chiara Mingarelli,  assistant professor of physics, recently wrote an op-ed piece entitled “Scientific  writing in the age of AI” for Nature Astronomy as part  of her Public...
February 28, 2025
Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was recently elected the Vice-Chair of the 2025 Executive Committee for the American...