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  1. Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis recognized six recipients of the college’s annual teaching prizes during a reception on April 29.

    Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis with prizewinners Carlos Eire, John Lafferty, Adriane Steinacker, David Blight, and Margherita Tortora
  2. 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.

    Priyamvada Natarajan and Akiko Iwasaki
  3. If confirmed as a galaxy, the system would be the faintest galaxy ever discovered — and may suggest that many others remain to be discovered.

    Hidden within this deep sky image (left) is UMa3/U1, a tiny group of stars (right) in orbit around the Milky Way.
  4. Caines’ research has revealed important insights into the behavior of nuclear matter under extremes of temperature and density.

    Helen Caines
  5. From neutrinos to maps of the entire universe, Faculty of Arts and Sciences physicists and cosmologists are exploring the unseen in a quest to understand the most far-reaching scientific mysteries.

  6. Five Yale Assistant Professors received Air Force Research Laboratory Young Investigator awards.

    AFRL awardees
  7. Yale physicist Laura Newburgh and her collaborators are honored for breakthroughs in the understanding of a mysterious phenomenon known as fast radio bursts.

  8. Yale physicist Bonnie Fleming and her co-researchers investigate anomalies in experimental data for traces of a yet-to-be-discovered subatomic particle.

  9. Wright Lab assistant professor David Moore, along with three colleagues from other institutions, recently proposed a novel idea of using trapped electrons and ions—technologies that are being developed as qubits for quantum computation—as ultra-sensitive particle detectors that may be able to enhance the search for the nature of dark matter, neutrinos, new forces, and more.

  10. Yale physicists Baker and Gozar were cited, respectively, for leadership in constructing particle tracking instrumentation and seminal work on complex oxides.