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Priya Natarajan, one of 12 awardees of the 2025 Suffrage Science Awards honouring pioneering women in Engineering and the Physical Sciences

Mon, 03/10/2025
The scheme began in 2011 with a focus on women in the Life Sciences starting with a group of 11 women. It has since expanded and in 2014, one of the awardees was our own Vice...

Two Yalies receive prestigious Churchill scholarship

Thu, 02/13/2025
Two members of the Yale community — Noemi Guerra, a 2024 Yale College graduate, and Andy Nilipour, a senior studying astrophysics and mathematics — are among 18 individuals...

Bullseye! Yale-led team finds a giant galaxy with a record nine rings

Tue, 02/04/2025
A Yale-led research group has discovered “Bullseye,” a galaxy with nine rings that may help astronomers better understand galaxy evolution and dark matter. A Yale-led team of...

Natarajan wins 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

Thu, 01/16/2025
Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan has won the prestigious 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for her path-breaking research focused on the invisible universe...

NASA astrophysicist opened inaugural Tinsley Workshop

Sun, 10/27/2024
Julia Levy writes about the the inaugural Tinsley Workshop’s Keynote Public Talk featuring Dr. Jane Rigby, an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 

Discoveries and debates surrounding the formation of the first black holes in the Universe

Thu, 10/24/2024
Discoveries and debates surrounding the formation of the first black holes in the Universe from a recent KITP conference discuss the work of astrophysicist Priyamvada...

3-2-1 liftoff! ‘Rocket Science for Everyone’ soars at Yale Online

Wed, 10/09/2024
Astrophysicist Marla Geha’s new Yale Online course about rocket science is, ahem, skyrocketing in popularity. Yale astrophysicist Marla Geha was visiting U.S. Space Command...