News

November 6, 2008
The Yale University Physics Department announces two new initiatives: the creation of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering...
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...
September 26, 2008
Five Yale students have their feet firmly back on the ground after experiencing weightlessness while testing their self-designed and constructed experiment onboard a gravity-...
William R. Bennett, Professor Emeritus of Physics (1930-2008)
July 18, 2008
William R. Bennett Jr., former Yale professor, master of Silliman College and groundbreaking physicist, died June 29 of esophageal cancer at his home in Haverford,...
May 3, 2008
John (Tom) Giblin (PhD’08) has won a Prize Teaching Fellowship from the Graduate School for the 2008-09 Academic Year.