Honors

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April 26, 2024
Barkotel Zemenu, ‘24, an undergraduate in physics who does research in Wright Lab’s Moore Group, has been selected as a Lindau Young Scientist and invited to the 73rd Lindau...
April 25, 2024
The Leigh Page Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching recognizes broad and impactful contributions to physics education at Yale, both within our department and the...
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April 25, 2024
Nathan Borak, graduate student in physics, has been awarded a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR) grant from...
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April 23, 2024
Charles D. Brown II, assistant profossor of physics, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has been named an at-large director of the board of the American Institute of...
Priyamvada Natarajan and Akiko Iwasaki (Photos by Allie Barton)
April 18, 2024
Akiko Iwasaki and Priyamvada Natarajan are part of 2024’s Time 100, a list that includes leaders of government, the arts, athletics, science, and industry. Two Yale faculty...
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April 15, 2024
On April 12, 2024, Yale Physics inducted 19 members (see below) from the undergraduate classes of 2024 and 2025 to Sigma Pi Sigma, the official honor society of the physics...
Pictured L-R, Front row: Amin Karbasi, Ruzica Piskac. Middle row: Kidae Shin, Fengnian Xia Back row: Fred Walker, John Fortner, Yongshan Ding, Dean Jeffrey Brock, Jaehong Kim, Mark Saltzman, Fund Director Claudia Reuter, Jung Han. Not pictured: Charles Ahn, Ben Fisch.
March 22, 2024
Charles Ahn, the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics, along with Fred Walker, senior research scientist in...