Recent News

04/07/2022

‘Frustrated’ nanomagnets order themselves through disorder

Department: Applied Physics

Extremely small arrays of magnets with strange and unusual properties can order themselves by increasing entropy, or the tendency of physical systems to disorder, a behavior that appears to...

learn more...
04/06/2022

BME Postdoc Presents at Future Leaders in Mechanobiology Series

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Linda Irons, postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently presented an invited seminar as part of the University of Pennsylvania’s “Future Leaders in Mechanobiology...

learn more...
04/04/2022

Marynel Vázquez Wins NSF CAREER AWARD

Department: Computer Science

For her work on analyzing human-robot interactions, Marynel Vázquez has won a 2022 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

learn more...
03/29/2022

Environmental Engineering Moves Up to #8 in U.S. News Rankings

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Not only did the Environmental Engineering program at Yale make it into this year’s top 10 of the U.S. News & World Report’s Graduate Engineering Rankings for the seventh year in a row, it has...

learn more...
03/24/2022

Unique Yale Master's Program Will Combine Surgery and Engineering

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

In medicine, one size does not fit all. This is especially true for orthopaedic surgery, where medical devices and surgical approaches designed specifically for a patient's anatomy are linked to...

learn more...
03/22/2022

Shedding Light on Lasers’ Powers

Department: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering

Hui Cao keeps finding new ways for lasers to improve our world
This article originally appeared in Yale...

learn more...
03/16/2022

Getting a grip on hand function

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Humans are unparalleled in the animal kingdom in hand dexterity. We use tools, hold pens, thread needles, and more, with little thought about the challenges the nervous system faces when precisely...

learn more...
03/16/2022

Tau Beta Pi Welcomes 2022 Inductees

The Yale chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, inducted 21 new members at a recent ceremony.

learn more...
03/10/2022

How Do You Teach Language to a Computer?

Department: Computer Science

Natural language processing, an area of artificial intelligence, involves teaching human language to computers. It has evolved from an intelligence-gathering technology to one that affects our...

learn more...
03/02/2022

Getting a Handle on a Robotics Challenge

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

When we pick something up, we’ll often jostle it around a bit, searching to get the best grip. A team of researchers have now developed a robotic hand that does something similar - a breakthrough...

learn more...
03/02/2022

Devoret honored for cutting-edge work in quantum physics

Department: Applied Physics

Michel Devoret, the F.W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, is a co-recipient of the Micius Quantum Prize for his groundbreaking work in quantum physics — including key...

learn more...
03/02/2022

Yale’s new data analysis tool uncovers important COVID-19 clues

Department: Computer Science

A new data analysis tool developed by Yale researchers has revealed the specific immune cell types associated with increased risk of death from COVID-19, they report Feb. 28 in the journal Nature...

learn more...
03/01/2022

Code Haven: “A Place to Share in the Sheer Excitement of Coding”

Department: Computer Science

Since her first semester at Yale, Gillian Gold '24 knew she had a passion for computer science that she was eager to share. That's what led Gold to Code Haven.

learn more...
02/22/2022

Yale to make landmark investments in engineering and applied science

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

Yale University today announced bold new investments in the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that will accelerate the university's...

learn more...
02/21/2022

True colors: Representation in animation is not skin deep

Department: Computer Science

Shortly after arriving at Yale, Theodore Kim was invited to give a guest lecture on the history of computer-generated imagery (CGI) for a Film and Media Studies class.

learn more...