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  • 07/31/2020

    Yujun Xie Wins MRS graduate student award
    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    Yujun Xie, who received his Ph.D. last year, has won the prestigious gold graduate student award from the 2020 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting for his work in the lab...

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  • 06/29/2020

    A Race to Solve the COVID Protein Puzzle
    Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    Among the many unknown factors in the science of COVID-19, one involves the structures of the proteins that make up the exterior of the coronavirus. A coronavirus particle has multiple proteins,...

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  • 05/18/2020

    Ben Weiss: Social Work, Bakeries, and Robots
    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    Ben Weiss has been busy these past four years - he danced with Yale Danceworks all eight semesters, served as a First-Year Counselor (FroCo), and cooked for the student-run restaurant Yale Pop Up...

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  • 05/18/2020

    2020 Grad Spotlight: Lauren Chapey
    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    For commencement week, we’re featuring some of the students from the SEAS Class of 2020. Today, we feature Lauren Chapey, who majored in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science:...

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  • 04/27/2020

    Karato Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    Seven Yale faculty members are among the artists, intellectuals, and prominent leaders newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for innovative accomplishments in their...

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  • 04/24/2020

    Remotely, Ventilator Device and Other Projects Continue On
    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    The course Computer-Aided Design (MENG 400), taught by Ronald Adrezin, involves a fair amount of hands-on work. Although the class operated remotely the second half of the semester when the campus...

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  • 04/23/2020

    Small but Critical Ventilator Parts Run Low, so Researchers Make Their Own
    Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    The need for ventilators in response to COVID-19 has been well publicized, but the single-use parts that comprise these machines has also been running critically low in hospitals. To ensure that...

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  • 04/15/2020

    CHIME: How Yale's Engineers and Doctors are Innovating to Combat COVID-19
    Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    The COVID-19 crisis has put a significant strain on the U.S. healthcare system and the availability of essential personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers. The Coalition for...

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  • 04/09/2020

    With an Urgent Need, Researchers Develop Multi-Patient Ventilators
    Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    Shuttered labs and social distancing haven’t gotten in the way of two research teams’ efforts to create a ventilator capable of treating multiple patients.

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  • 04/03/2020

    To Relieve a Critical Shortage, a Way to Test Face Masks
    Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    With certified face masks at a critical shortage, a team of researchers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science are developing a system to test the reliability of non-standard face...

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  • 04/01/2020

    Switching from Robots to Ventilators: How a Class Responds to Covid-19
    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    When students in Mechatronics (MENG 390) left for spring break, they expected to begin work on two-wheeled balancing robots upon their return. When classes resumed, though, their end-of the-...

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  • 03/26/2020

    Yale Experts Pool Resources, Skills to Increase Covid-19 Medical Supplies
    Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    From computer simulations of new medical technology durability to simplified PPE designs for mass production, a coalition drawing on expertise from across the university is working to help provide...

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  • 03/20/2020

    Maintaining Lab Continuity in the Time of COVID-19
    Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    When Yale took the necessary step of moving classes online to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, it presented a particular challenge for courses that focus on building complex devices and other...

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  • 03/12/2020

    Ahn Named Materials Research Society Fellow
    Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    Charles Ahn, the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Physics, has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS).

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  • 03/10/2020

    How You Look at a Protein Can Change Its Structure
    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

    The most common way to get a picture of the atomic structures of a protein might actually cause a change in the protein’s structure, a team of researchers discovered.

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