Recent News

05/17/2022

Graduate Students Honored At 2022 Crest & Fest

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Cassandra Porter and Juntang Zhuang were honored Tuesday by SEAS Dean Jeffrey Brock at the annual Crest & Fest celebration for their exceptional achievements in research.

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05/13/2022

Branched Polymers Can Be Very Useful. Now There's a Better Way to Make Them.

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Branched polymers - that is, polymers that look like tiny tree branches - have significant potential for water filtration, the biomedical field, nanoelectronics, and other applications....

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05/12/2022

EnvE Grad Student Named P.E.O. Scholar and Tau Beta Pi Fellow

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Julianne Rolf, a fifth-year doctoral student in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, was recently awarded two prestigious graduate honors: the P.E.O. Scholar Award and the Tau...

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05/09/2022

Preventing dyes, and a cultural tradition, from fading

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

This article originally appeared in Yale Engineering Magazine.

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04/27/2022

Yale Announces $5M Roberts Innovation Fund to Commercialize Engineering Faculty Discoveries

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

In recent years, innovations from Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) faculty have aided in cancer treatment, provided clean water to developing countries and advanced the...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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01/19/2022

Falling COVID counts in wastewater could signal end of omicron wave

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Of all the methods of measuring the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, one has been consistently reliable: the amount of the virus in sewage.

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01/14/2022

EnvE Undergraduate Named Churchill Scholar

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Megan He and Sarah Zhao — and alumnus James Diao '18 are among the 18 recipients of prestigious Churchill Scholarships for the 2022-23 academic year.
The scholarships support one year of...

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01/14/2022

Is New Haven Past Current COVID Peak? Wastewater Testing Gives Insight

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Connecticut has been dealing with a surge of COVID-19 cases and one indicator of how heavy transmission is comes through testing wastewater. There is some promising data from the New Haven area....

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01/12/2022

Yale team develops clip-on monitor to detect coronavirus exposure

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Engineers from Yale University have developed a wearable device that can help individuals assess whether they have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The cheap...

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01/05/2022

Menachem Elimelech Wins ACS Outstanding Achievements Award

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Prof. Menachem Elimelech has been named the co-recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS) 2022 Outstanding Achievements in Environmental Science & Technology Award....

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12/13/2021

Four SEAS Faculty Members Make ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ List

Department: Applied Physics, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Four Yale Engineering faculty members were included in Clarivate Analytics’ 2021 ranking of “Highly Cited Researchers.” Each year, the company collects scientific and research data that identifies...

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12/10/2021

Amma Kankam '22 Wins AIChE Poster Contest

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering

For her poster outlining her lab group’s research on reducing nitrate contamination, Amma Kankam ‘22 won first place in the Environmental Sciences session at the American Institute of Chemical...

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