Each spring the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recognizes professors from each of four divisions who provide “superb teaching, advising, and mentoring” to Yale students.

Two members of the Yale faculty — Sarah Demers, a professor of physics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Christine Hayes, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies — were awarded the William Clyde DeVane Award for outstanding scholarship and undergraduate teaching by Yale’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last week during its annual reception for Yale seniors.

Sam Raskin, James E. English Professor of Mathematics, was awarded a 2025 New Horizons in Mathematics prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Six Yale physicists were also honored for their work on international scientific experiments.

In a new study, Yale physicists demonstrate a new way to manipulate quasiparticles —quantum objects often used to study cutting-edge quantum technology concepts.

Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was recently elected the Vice-Chair of the 2025 Executive Committee for the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics.

Natarajan has also been honored with a 2025 Suffrage Science Award from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in the UK for her pioneering contributions to astrophysics.

Yale’s Amir Haji-Akbari, Tristan Geiller, Ian Moult, and Shreya Saxena have received 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars.

Yale theoretical physicist A. Douglas Stone is the first Yale faculty member to win the Max Born Award for excellence in optics research.

A new discovery by Yale physicists provides important insights into how faint sounds entering the human cochlea can be amplified enough for us to hear them.

The CHIME Collaboration—which includes researchers in Wright Lab associate professor Laura Newburgh’s group—has been named the first-place winner of the 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for measuring the clustering of hydrogen gas over a large region of the observable Universe.