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Yale Physics alumni start peer mentoring program for 1st year graduate students

June 29, 2020
SU(5) is a peer mentorship program for first year graduate students in physics and astronomy.  For many students, especially underrepresented students, the transition from...
Members of the Yale and BNL research teams. Pictured from left to right are Maile Harris (Yale), Benjamin Salinwanchik (Yale), Laura Newburgh (Yale), Will Tyndall (Yale), Emily Kuhn (Yale), Anze Slosar (Brookhaven Lab), and Justine Haupt (Brookhaven Lab). Note: this photo was taken in March 2020, prior to current COVID-19 social distancing guidelines. Photo credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Newburgh’s drones help calibrate Brookhaven National Laboratory telescope

June 25, 2020
Wright Lab assistant professor Laura Newburgh has been developing an innovative technique to calibrate radio telescopes across the world, in particular CHIME in Canada and ...
Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein

CHIME collaboration detects a busy signal from outer space

June 18, 2020
Wright Lab’s assistant professor of physics Laura Newburgh has collaborated with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) since its beginning, and the CHIME...

Welcome Michael Jewell (Postdoctoral Associate with Reina Maruyama)

June 10, 2020
Welcome to Michael Jewell who comes to us as a postdoctoral associate working with Reina Maruyama. Michael is working on the HAYSTAC experiment which is searching for dark...

Hao Yan defends thesis “Positional Fluctuations in Synthetic and Living Polymer Systems"

June 8, 2020
On June 8, 2020 Hao Yan successfully defended his thesis: “Positional Fluctuations in Synthetic and Living Polymer Systems” (Advisor: Simon Mochrie). Yan explained “DNA is...