May 2022 News

Snapping a cosmic selfie — the first image of the Milky Way’s black hole

Fri, 05/13/2022
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, an international collaboration aimed at gathering direct images of black holes, has now set its sights close to home. In a...

Marla Geha, awarded the Dylan Hixon ’88 Prize for teaching excellence in the natural sciences

Thu, 05/05/2022
In a ceremony held in the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning on May 5, Yale College Dean Marvin Chun read the nominating students’ words of praise: “Marla Geha,...

Priya Natarajan receives Liberty Science Center ‘Genius Award’

Mon, 05/02/2022
Priya Natarajan, professor of astronomy and of physics. who explores cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics, is being honored with a Liberty Science Center...