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Four Yale Engineering Faculty Members Awarded with NSF CAREER Awards

April 19, 2010

Four Yale Engineering Faculty Awarded with NSF CAREER Awards:
 
- Larry Lee, Electrical Engineering
- Aaron Dollar, Mechanical Engineering
- Michael Levene, Biomedical Engineering
- Andre Taylor, Chemical Engineering
 
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Shampoo Forms Harmful Substance in Waste Water

April 19, 2010

Beware ladies.


Forward Osmosis, developed by Menachem Elimelech, featured in Water Issue of National Geographic

April 19, 2010

There's no shortage of water on the blue planet—just a shortage of fresh water. New technologies may offer better ways to get the salt out.
 
Three hundred million people now get their water from the sea or from brackish groundwater that is too salty to drink.


Yale Robots Dance, Gesture and, Hopefully, Spark Interest in Science

April 19, 2010

New Haven, Conn. — There were robotic dinosaurs, a robot that danced and one that played rock-paper-scissors.


Hardware Trojans: A Novel Attack Meets a New Defense

April 19, 2010

Associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Yiorgos Makris, and doctoral student, Yier Jin, show how easy it is to hide malicious hardware Troj


Yale Team Racing to Glory

April 19, 2010

When Henry Misas ’10 set out to help a Yale team build a race car during his sophomore year, he did not even know how to use a wrench.
 
Now Misas is leading the Bulldogs Racing Team, 13 members strong, to build a race car that will be entered in an international formula hybrid competition annua


Vibrating Chair Fixes Bad Posture

April 19, 2010

Do you sit in a chair all day at work? Does your back hurt from hunching over?


New "Liquid Magnet" Solder Eliminates Toxic Lead

April 19, 2010

Reported in Scientific America, March 7, 2010
By: Tina Casey
 
A team of researchers at Yale University has developed a new kind of magnetic, lead free solder that could be used to manufacture electronics more cheaply and efficiently.


Magnetic Solder to Wire 3-D Chips

April 19, 2010

Published in MIT Technology Review, March 5, 2010
The lead-free material may make it easier and cheaper to make "stacked" chips with more computing power.
 
A new type of solder can be melted and shaped in three dimensions under the force of a weak magnetic field.


Symposium Explored Energy Research Projects On Campus

April 19, 2010

What do cook stoves in Bangladesh have to do with F-15 jet fuel? Or a plant fungus discovered in the Amazonian rain forest with sustainable architecture? As the faculty who attended the West Campus Energy Symposium on Feb.


New Magnetic Solders Are a Leap Towards Green Alternatives

April 19, 2010

New Haven, Conn. — Yale University scientists have developed a magnetic solder that can be manipulated in three dimensions and selectively heated, and offers a more environmentally friendly alternative to today’s lead-based solders.


Nitrosamine Carcinogens Also Swim in Chlorinated Pools

April 19, 2010

When epidemiological studies suggested that an increased risk of bladder cancer accompanied the use of chlorinated water for drinking and, most recently, swimming, Bill Mitch, associate professor of


Advances in Medical Imaging

April 19, 2010

Epilepsy affects nearly three million people in the United States and about 50 million people worldwide.


BME Student Awarded Best Thesis from Purdue's College of Engineering

November 20, 2009

The thesis written by Jenna Sullivan, a Ph.D. student in Yale’s Biomedical Engineering, for her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering degree at Purdue University, was judged to be the strongest of all M.S.


Scientists Guide Immune Cells with Light and Microparticles

November 20, 2009

A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies.


A New Method Helps Researchers Better Understand Turbulence

November 20, 2009

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Assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Nicholas Ouellette, combines two well-established approaches with an inn


Innovations for Agricultural Value Chains in Africa

November 20, 2009

In August of 2009, the Meridian Institute, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, led a team of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to identify innovations that would ad


Nanodevices Bend under the Force of Light

November 20, 2009

A team of researchers has fabricated a micron-scale device that deforms significantly under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis for tiny light-actuated switches or filters in future optical devices.
 
In recent years several groups have engineered novel structures on scales so


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