Congrats Cecily!
https://wlab.yale.edu/posts/2025-10-22-lowe-awarded-marshall-plan-fellowship
Category: Uncategorized
Jackie Baeza-Rubio wins best poster prize at NNN25 Conference
Jiaxiang Wang successfully defends his thesis!
Congratulations to Jiaxiang for an excellent defense and thesis. Well done! More details on his work can be found here: https://wlab.yale.edu/posts/2025-08-07-wang-successfully-defends-thesis-levitated-optomechanical-sensors-for-fundamental
Jackie Baeza-Rubio and Cecily Lowe named NSF GRFP Fellows!
Congratulations Jackie and Cecily!!
https://physics.yale.edu/news/yale-physics-students-awarded-2025-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships
Jackie Baeza-Rubio receives Dean’s Emerging Scholar Research Award
Article on new physics searches with spheres selected as IOP Top Cited Paper
Our article on searching for new physics with levitated microspheres selected as IOP Top Cited Paper for North America in the Quantum category.
Paper link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-9565/abcf8a
See the following for more details:
https://wlab.yale.edu/news/yale-physics-faculty-awarded-iop-top-cited-paper-awards
Paper detecting nuclear decays in microspheres featured in PRL
Congrats to Jiaxiang on leading this work, providing the first detection of a nuclear decay by observing the recoil of the entire object in which the decaying nucleus is embedded:
Paper in PRL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.023602
Viewpoint in Physics Magazine: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/107
Cartoon describing the work: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/108
Coverage in Physics Today: https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/43404/Levitating-beads-reveal-radioactivity
Here we are celebrating the publication with durian crepe cake:
Yu-Han Tseng receives GIRA Award
Congrats Yu-Han!
https://wlab.yale.edu/news/tseng-awarded-2023-gira-award