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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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04/10/2019

Student-Built Device Clears the Way For Surgeons

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Blood, fat, and anything else that gets in the way can make things tricky for surgeons. To clear the way, a vacuum tube is used to suck away the debris and give doctors a clear field of view. The...

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04/09/2019

Shape-Changing Robots Take on Changing Terrains

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Robots can change directions, speeds and even their colors. But what about changing their shapes? With help from a sculptor's intuition, Yale researchers are on it.

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04/08/2019

Leducq Transatlantic Network makes Schwartz a team leader

Department: Biomedical Engineering

It is rare for science to identify one key protein that determines a cell's behavior in health and disease. KLF2 is one such protein. Among other functions, "it is the principal transcriptional...

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04/08/2019

In cellular world, strong relationships the key to healing old wounds

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Yale scientists with colleagues at University College London have taken the next step towards unravelling how cells work together during wound closure, a question that could be fundamental to...

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04/08/2019

Concussion Treating Device Wins Rothberg Catalyzer Prize

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

OnTrack Rehab, a project that grew out of Medical Device Design and Innovation (MENG/BENG 404), won the Rothberg Catalyzer Prize @ Yale at StartUp Yale.

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04/01/2019

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society: A Campus-wide Discussion

Department: Computer Science

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are deciding everything from which friends’ Facebook posts you see to how to set bail for defendants. The impact of AI technology will only grow, yet many...

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03/28/2019

Vishnoi: How Social Media Algorithms Shape Us

Department: Computer Science

Global communications technology has streamlined the power of suggestion.

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03/27/2019

Engineered Vessels Evolve into Living Tissue

Department: Biomedical Engineering

In one of the longest follow-up studies of its kind, researchers found that their specially bioengineered blood vessels evolved into living tissue after human implantation.

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03/26/2019

Yale Aerospace chosen by NASA to launch BLAST CubeSat to study cosmic rays

A team from the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association (YUAA) that is currently in residence at Wright Lab to build a CubeSat research satellite to detect cosmic rays has been chosen by NASA as...

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03/25/2019

Rong Fan and Fahmeed Hyder Elected to AIMBE

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Rong Fan and Fahmeed Hyder have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

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03/18/2019

Photocatalytic Water Treatment: Facts Vs. Hype

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

More than three decades ago, when researchers began exploring photocatalysis as a way to purify water, efforts were buoyed by a wave of optimism within academia.

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03/18/2019

Morris Named a Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Evan D. Morris, professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, biomedical engineering, and psychiatry, has been named a "Visiting Scholar" at The Hastings Center.

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