February 11th is the 8th International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This annual celebration, initiated by a resolution of the United Nations in 2015, recognizes the critical role that women and girls play in science and technology.
Yale Physics recognizes our outstanding community members, including:
Faculty with primary appointments in physics: Helen Caines, professor of physics; Sarah Demers, professor of Physics; Caitlin Hansen, preceptor in physics laboratory instruction and management; Reina Maruyama, professor of physics and astronomy; Laura Newburgh, assistant professor of physics; Rona Ramos, lecturer in physics and graduate services coordinator; Adriane Steinacker, senior lecturer in physics; Alison Sweeney, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of physics; and Meg Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics.
Faculty with secondary appointments in physics: Hui Cao (Applied Physics), Marla Geha (Astronomy), Priyamvada Natarajan (Astronomy), Shruti Puri (Applied Physics), and Diana Qiu (Mechanical Engineering)
Research scientists in physics: Laura Havener, associate research scientist with Helen Caines; Amanda Holt Jones, associate research scientist with Alison Sweeney; and Penny Slocum, associate research scientist/scholar in physics.
Postdoctoral researchers in physics: Irem Altan, postdoctoral associate with Alison Sweeney; Yangyang Cheng, primary in the Yale Law School; Isabella Graf, postdoctoral associate with Ben Machta; Erin Kado-Fong, YCAA Prize Postdoctoral Fellow with Marla Geha & Pieter van Dokkum; Lea Marcotulli, postdoctoral associate with Meg Urry; Bianka Mecaj, postdoctoral associate with Ian Moult; and Priyanka Singh, postdoctoral assocate with Daisuk Nagai.
Graduate students in physics: Xiran Bai, Caitie Beattie, Maria Belota Moreno, Sanah Bhimani, Hannah Bossi, Naomi Brandt, Katie Chang, Xinyi Chen, Harper Cho, Rachel Cooper, Allison Culbert, Kimmy Cushman, Pepjin de Maat, Jessie Farr, Arianna Garcia Caffaro, Caitlin Gish, Naomi Gluck, Eleanor Graham, Sophia Hollick, Yunpeng Ji, Claire Laffan, Yilin Li, Toni Montalvo, Maya Moore, Xiaowei Ou, Samantha Pagan, Joy Pajarla, Jingjing Pan, Iris Ponce, Emily Pottebaum, Ananya Rai, Lauren Saunders, Kirsty Scott, Mengwen Shi, Cassady Smith, Youqi Song, Sylvi Stoller, Arina Telles, Latavia Thompson, Jenny Tian, Navya Uberoi, Mira Varma, Jaya Venkatraman, Molly Watts, Talia Weiss, Sierra Weyhmiller, Angela White, Sierra Wilde, Jinming Yang.
Affiliated graduate students: Sumita Ghosh (Applied Physics), Lauren Mellenthin (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Ava Polzin (Astronomy), Anjana Rajkumar Kammath (Biology & Biomedical Science), Sara Siwiecki (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), and Lucy Yu (Applied Physics).
Yale Physics also recognizes the undergraduate Women in Physics and graduate student Women in Physics+ groups (read more about them here), and the outreach group Girls’ Science Investigations.
With perfect timing, the first in-person session of Girls Science Investigations, “The Electronics World”, will be held on February 11th. What a way to celebrate!