Recent News

05/22/2023

Congratulations to the SEAS Class of 2023!

Department: Applied Physics, 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 294 undergraduate Engineering degrees Monday.

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05/11/2023

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi named Strathcona Professor

Department: Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, who has done pioneering work in the fields of theoretical physics and materials innovation, was recently appointed the Strathcona Professor of Applied Physics and professor of...

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05/04/2023

Strings of magnetic energy shown to flex, wiggle, and reconnect

Department: Applied Physics

A multi-institutional team exploring the physics of collective behavior has developed and measured a model nanomagnetic array in which the behavior can be best understood as that of a set of...

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05/03/2023

Devoret Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Department: Applied Physics

Two Yale faculty members and a Yale-affiliated researcher have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in...

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04/26/2023

No need for a super computer: Describing electron interactions efficiently and accurately

Department: Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

One of the outstanding challenges in the field of condensed matter physics is finding computationally efficient and simultaneously accurate methods to describe interacting electron systems for...

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04/10/2023

With Higher Frequencies, Faster Communications

Department: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering

In what has the potential to significantly advance wireless communications and mechanical quantum systems, researchers at Yale have demonstrated the world’s first electromechanical resonator to...

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03/22/2023

Doubling a qubit’s life, researchers prove a key theory of quantum physics

Department: Applied Physics

Researchers at Yale have for the first time, using a process known as quantum error correction, substantially extended the lifetime of a quantum bit — a long-sought-after goal and one of the...

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02/27/2023

Priyadarshini Panda and Yu He Win NSF CAREER Awards

Department: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering

For projects that aim to advance the fields of computing and new materials, professors Priyadarshini Panda and Yu He have won 2023 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards from the...

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02/23/2023

Yale to make historic investment in engineering, lower Hillhouse Avenue

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

Yale University on Thursday announced plans for a historic series of infrastructure investments that would transform the face and trajectory of its School of Engineering & Applied Science (...

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02/21/2023

Roberts Innovation Fund to Support 10 Bold SEAS Faculty Inventions

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

New and innovative methods of controlling cells with artificial intelligence, securing cryptocurrency and blockchain systems, and advancing natural language processing are just some of...

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01/25/2023

Building Off the "Anti-laser," a Device That Directs Waves

Department: Applied Physics

Building off a breakthrough “anti-laser,” a team of researchers has developed a system that can direct light and other electromagnetic waves for signal processing without any unwanted signal...

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01/12/2023

Yale University Joins National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Northeast Hub

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

Yale University has been tapped to join the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps, a network of universities focused on nurturing researchers as they...

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01/03/2023

A Better Photon Detector to Advance Quantum Technology

Department: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering

A team of researchers has developed an on-chip photon-counting device that could significantly advance numerous applications of quantum technology.

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12/01/2022

Five SEAS Faculty Members Make ‘Highly Cited Researchers' List

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

Five Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science faculty members were named to Clarivate Analytics’ 2022 ranking of “Highly Cited Researchers.” Each year, the company collects scientific and...

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07/13/2022

Knots in the resonator: elegant math in humble physics

Department: Applied Physics

At the heart of every resonator — be it a cello, a gravitational wave detector, or the antenna in your cell phone — there is a beautiful bit of mathematics that has been heretofore unacknowledged...

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