Honors

Professors R. Shankar and Robert Schoelkopf win prizes from the American Physical Society

October 3, 2008
R. Shankar (John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics) is the 2009 winner of the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, “awarded for outstanding contributions to physics by a single...

John (Tom) Giblin has won a Prize Teaching Fellowship from the Yale Graduate School

May 3, 2008
John (Tom) Giblin (PhD’08) has won a Prize Teaching Fellowship from the Graduate School for the 2008-09 Academic Year.

Christine Nattras has won the Brookhaven Women in Science Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize

May 2, 2008
Christine Nattrass (Graduate Student) has won the Brookhaven Women in Science Gertrude S. Goldhaber Prize. She also received a certificate of apprecation from the Brookhaven...

Professor Meg Urry elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 1, 2008
Meg Urry (Israel Munson Professor of Physics & Astronomy) has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and will be inducted on October 11th at...

Students Elizabeth Jerison and Adam Marblestone have won Barry Goldwater Scholarships

March 2, 2008
Elizabeth Jerison (YC’10) and Adam Marblestone (YC’09) have won Goldwater Scholarships this year.  The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation was...

Doctor Ania Bleszynski-Jayich won a L’Oréal U.S.A. Fellowship for Women in Science

March 1, 2008
Ania Bleszynski Jayich (Postdoctoral Associate for Jack Harris) has won the 2008 L’Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science. The L’Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science...

Professor Helen Caines elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics

February 1, 2008
Helen Caines (Assistant Professor of Physics) has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.