Recent News

07/16/2019

Where scientists and entrepreneurs mingle

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology provides a home for those who want to develop medical devices to meet unmet needs in health care, and bring them to patients.

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07/15/2019

Treating childhood autism one robot at a time

Department: Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Parents can be resistant to hearing that their child faces a challenging health diagnosis. But when Thomas Leaf and Emanuela Palmares learned that their son Caio has autism spectrum disorder (ASD...

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07/12/2019

Scratching the surface: Metallic glass implants

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Artificial joints, blood-vessel stents, bone screws, and other implanted objects—crucial tools to help patients—carry risks related to the materials they're made of. Valves and stents, for example...

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07/11/2019

Xia, Kramer-Bottiglio Honored with Presidential Award in Science and Technology

Department: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Yale Engineering faculty members Fengnian Xia and Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

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07/11/2019

Cammie Fausey Wins PEO Sisterhood Award

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

For her work designing nano-enabled water treatment technologies, Camrynn “Cammie” Fausey, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical and environmental engineering, was selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar...

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07/10/2019

Engineering Innovation

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Maddy O'Neal held a shiny titanium screw in her hand while studying a computer model of the device on the screen in front of her, looking for potential weaknesses once the screw is put in someone'...

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07/10/2019

A Cappella Singer is at Home on Stage and in the Lab

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Neha Bhatt, '20, is not spending her summer the way she might have, practicing music and visiting family and friends in anticipation of being away next school year on a world concert tour.
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07/01/2019

Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio Brings Robotic Skins to Jeff Bezos' Elite MARS Conference

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Within the span of two days, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio presented her technology to a high-caliber audience that included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, traded ideas with top researchers from around the...

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06/28/2019

Decoding Cells to Unlock Stem Cells' Potential

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Stem cells are jacks of all trades, capable of alleviating the consequences of such diverse pathologies as heart attacks, strokes and cancer. However, stem cell therapies have been hampered by...

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06/26/2019

Yale scientists discover molecular key to how cancer spreads

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale researchers have discovered how metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body, is triggered on the molecular level, and have developed a tool with the potential to detect those...

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06/21/2019

With Grant, Researchers Take Atomic-Scale Look at Metallic Glasses

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) have unusual and potentially very valuable properties. But so much is still unknown about how they form and behave that researchers have not been able to take full...

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06/20/2019

Ahn appointed Malone Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Charles H. Ahn, recently named as the John C. Malone Professor, focuses his research on the fabrication and characterization of the physical properties of materials using advanced synthesis and...

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06/17/2019

Controlling Textures in Single Crystal Soft Materials

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

A new study that features the work of Yale researchers demonstrates a method to create single crystal texture in a self-assembled soft material.

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06/10/2019

International Scholars Join 19th Adaptive and Learning Systems Workshop at SEAS

Department: Electrical Engineering

Scholars from six countries and more than two dozen universities and research laboratories will arrive at Yale's campus today to attend the Nineteenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning...

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06/10/2019

Biomedical Engineers Win Inaugural Art in Research Competition

Department: Biomedical Engineering

On June 7, the Yale Postdoctoral Association and the Office of the Provost announced the winners of the inaugural Art in Research Competition.

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