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08/04/2020

Yale Researchers Part of New NSF-Funded Quantum Center

Department: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering

Yale University is among the core partners of the new Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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07/31/2020

Yujun Xie Wins MRS graduate student award

Department: 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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07/27/2020

With New Programming Skills, Students Contribute to Space Knowledge

What could come of an eight-week collaboration with a U.S. Coast Guard Academy lecturer and a group of students who, late in the game, found their summer plans in disarray? Potentially, the launch...

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07/22/2020

Nature provides inspiration for researchers developing selective membranes

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

The ingenuity of nature will be the inspiration behind synthetic membranes of the future, which will be able to select which substances they allow to pass through and which are filtered out,...

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07/17/2020

Students' Engineering Skills Help with Mental Health

Social isolation and countless Zoom meetings can be tough, so a group of engineering students are working to make things a little easier for their classmates.

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07/16/2020

Applied Physics joins the School of Engineering & Applied Science

Department: Applied Physics

In celebration and acknowledgment of their long intellectual and working history at Yale, the Department of Applied Physics (AP) and the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) have...

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07/15/2020

From Engineering to Nursing, Cisco Partnership Yields Face Shields

Department: Computer Science

Yale School of Nursing (YSN) recently received 1,000 injection-molded face shields, the result of a collaboration with Cisco.

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07/14/2020

Yale, Cambridge pioneer new way to make kidneys safe for transplant

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The rise in diabetes and high blood pressure-related diseases has led to a major need for kidney transplants, but the quality of available organs has been on a steady decline. Now, a new procedure...

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07/10/2020

Connecticut hopes to expand a wastewater testing project to give officials advance warning of coronavirus outbreaks

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

The state of Connecticut is working with Yale's School of Public Health in the hopes of expanding a New Haven wastewater testing project into other municipalities, which would give city officials...

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07/08/2020

As Demand Increases, More Computer Help for Scientists

Department: Computer Science

Large-scale computers - so-called cluster machines formed from thousands of computers behaving as one - have become increasingly critical to numerous fields of research in the last several years....

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07/02/2020

COVID-related Pilot Projects Are Selected for Research Funding

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Three pilot projects to investigate aspects of the current pandemic have received funding from Yale's COVID-19 Research Resource Fund, which was built with generous contributions from Yale's...

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06/30/2020

Samuel Judson Wins NDSEG Fellowship

Department: Computer Science

Samuel Judson has received the 2020 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
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06/29/2020

A Race to Solve the COVID Protein Puzzle

Department: 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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06/29/2020

Yale Cancer Center Researchers Awarded $2.8 Million Cancer Systems Immunology Grant

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale Cancer Center (YCC) researchers were awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate and model cytokine signaling related to immunotherapy for cancer.

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06/26/2020

Yale-Made Program Tracks City's Protective Equipment During Pandemic

Department: Computer Science

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves, masks and respirators was in high demand. Keeping track of those supplies was a job in itself....

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