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Natarajan wins 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

January 17, 2025
Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan has won the prestigious 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for her path-breaking research focused on the invisible universe...

Newburgh and CHIME awarded 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize

January 16, 2025
The CHIME Collaboration—which includes researchers in Wright Lab associate professor Laura Newburgh’s group—has been named the first-place winner of the 2024 Buchalter...

This quasar may have helped turn the lights on for the universe

January 14, 2025
A recently published new study co-authored by Lea Marcotulli a postdoctoral associate in the physics department and Meg Urry, the Israel Munson professor of physics,...
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Still life with Einstein? A physics class, by way of the art gallery

January 13, 2025
An undergraduate seminar taught by astrophysicist Meg Urry adds an artistic dimension to scientific concepts of time and space. Islay Ross, who grew up on a small island off...
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