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11/19/2024

Smoke changes over time and distance, but health risks remain

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering

A study of air quality in New York City while it was heavily affected by Canadian wildfire smoke revealed that multi-day transport to the New York region significantly transformed the smoke, but...

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11/19/2024

Yale SOM and Yale Engineering Launch New Business-Technology Joint Degree

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

The Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science have established a new joint-degree program that will enable students to earn an MBA and a Master of Science...

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11/18/2024

Yale Engineering Advances AI Innovation with Seed Funding for High-Impact Research and Workshops

Department: Applied Physics, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering

The Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science has awarded seed research grants to support new, ambitious, and speculative research in artificial intelligence.

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10/30/2024

Lea Winter Wins DoE Early Career Award

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering

For a project that aims to create better ways to convert carbon dioxide into useful products, Prof. Lea Winter has been awarded an Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of...

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10/25/2024

Saltzman Receives Pioneer Award for Implants to Treat Endometriosis

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Research examining health conditions unique to women, more prevalent in women, or affecting women differently than men have been at the heart of Women's Health Research at Yale since its founding...

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10/02/2024

Reshaping Yale for a new wave of quantum physics, engineering, and materials

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

The Upper Science Hill Building Complex will transform Yale’s quantum and engineering programs with new research labs, convening space — and a geothermal plant.
Future generations of...

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09/16/2024

Yale Engineering Welcomes Eight New Faculty Members

Department: Applied Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Yale Engineering is proud to announce the arrival of an exceptional cohort of new faculty members this fall. These distinguished scholars bring expertise in cutting-edge fields, including quantum...

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09/16/2024

Sparking a Sustainable Future by Electrifying Energy

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering

This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine.

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08/27/2024

With high-tech mat, students are electrifying sports data

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Their work on turning a traditional piece of sports training equipment into a high-tech data-collecting device began as a class project. Less than a year later, many folks – including a former NBA...

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08/12/2024

Recovering valuable materials with better membranes

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Critical minerals like lithium and cobalt are vital to batteries, electric vehicles, and renewable energy systems. To meet the long-term demand for these materials, finding sources of these...

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07/24/2024

Biodegradable luminescent polymers show promise for reducing electronic waste

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering

From your car's navigation display to the screen you are reading this on, luminescent polymers — a class of flexible materials that contain light-emitting molecules — are used in a variety of...

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07/18/2024

Cleaner water with electrified membranes

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Nitrate contamination in water has long presented threats to the environment and human health. Now, Yale researchers have developed an efficient and effective way to remove it.

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07/10/2024

Saltzman Receives Pilot Project Program Award for Endometriosis Treatment

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Biomedical engineer W. Mark Saltzman has been granted the Wendy U. & Thomas C. Naratil Pioneer Award by Women's Health Research at Yale for his efforts to more effectively treat endometriosis...

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07/08/2024

The race to clean the Seine River

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering

As the world prepares for the start of the Olympic Games in Paris later this month, it is still unclear whether the city's iconic Seine River will be clean enough for competitive swimming events...

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06/21/2024

Chiral materials have many uses; researchers now better understand them

Department: Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Chiral molecules - that is, those that have mirror images of themselves - have significant benefits for transistors and solar energy devices. Studying their properties in close detail, though, has...

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