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05/21/2019

Congratulations to the SEAS Class of 2019!

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Members of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science community celebrated the awarding of 225 undergraduate Engineering degrees on May 20, 2019.

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05/20/2019

Emily Chu '19 Takes Her Engineering Skills to Disney

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Growing up, Emily Chu ‘19 visited Walt Disney World many times (her grandmother lived nearby) and was amazed by it each time.

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05/16/2019

Lili Wang Honored At 2019 Crest & Fest

Department: Electrical Engineering

The Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize, awarded for exceptional achievement in research in Engineering & Applied Science, was awarded to Lili Wang, a Ph.D...

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05/16/2019

For Data Science that Delves into the Brain, Amin Karbasi Wins CAREER Award

Department: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

For research that could lead to - among other advances – better analysis of the brain, Amin Karbasi has won a 2019 Faculty Early Career Development CAREER Award from the National Science...

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05/14/2019

Mehraveh Salehi Wins first inter-ivy 3-Minute Thesis Competition

Department: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Mehraveh Salehi has spent the last few years working on a thesis that combines neuroscience, statistics, and data science and challenges conventions in each of those fields. It also sheds...

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05/13/2019

Speed, balance, and friendly competition: Finals for Mechatronics students

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Finals can be a stressful time, but for the students of Mechatronics (MENG 390), it was a day at the races.
Tasked with the assignment of designing and building self-balancing vehicles (the...

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05/02/2019

Ruzica Piskac Wins 2019 Ackerman Award

Department: Computer Science

Ruzica Piskac’s approach to teaching has long focused on helping her students find what they’re passionate about.

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05/01/2019

New Material Combines Best of Ceramics, Metals and Plastics

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Borrowing a method from the field of drug discovery, a team of researchers has developed a material that combines the best properties of ceramics, metals and plastics.

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05/01/2019

New Haven middle schoolers had fun with robots in Yale student-led workshop

As its name suggests, Funbotics is committed to making robotics fun while also empowering youth in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs. This spring the Yale chapter...

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05/01/2019

‘Blended Reality’ brings diverse perspectives to emerging tech

Four turntables are arranged on a table at a zoo by the bear enclosure. Play a record and the bears stand up and boogie. Turn around and Pegasus hovers over another enclosure. Toss an apple into...

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04/30/2019

Computer Science Junior Awarded Goldwater Scholarship

Department: Computer Science

Four Yale juniors are among 496 individuals who have been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship, which is given to sophomores or juniors in science, technology, engineering, and math fields who...

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04/26/2019

For Work With Polymers, Mingjiang Zhong Wins CAREER Award

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

For his work in developing a new polymer that could be used for biomedical applications as well as water filtration, Mingjiang Zhong has won a 2019 Faculty Early Career Development CAREER Award...

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04/17/2019

Yale Student Engineers Helped Lacrosse Goalies Lift National Title

Yale's lacrosse coaches wanted to provide their goalies with additional training a couple of years ago, but they faced several obstacles. One was a good problem to have: their defensemen were so...

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04/17/2019

Anjelica Gonzalez Lab Selected NAVBO's "Lab of the Month"

Department: Biomedical Engineering

The North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO) has chosen the laboratory of Anjelica Gonzalez as its “Lab of the Month.”

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04/16/2019

Brian Scassellati designated the Giamatti Professor of Computer Science

Department: Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Brian Scassellati, recently appointed as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science, focuses his research on building embodied computational models of human social behavior, especially...

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