In 2012, Boston magazine published a feature story called “Lawrence, MA: City of the Damned.” It chronicled the many woes of the state’s poorest city – a mayor under investigation, a steep rise in crime, rampant drugs, and a school system that had been...
Peter Schiffer ’88 B.S., vice provost for research and professor in applied physics, told alumni at the 2018 Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) Assembly & Yale Alumni Fund Convocation that Yale is committed to making science and engineering a priority...
Since he started sharing his inventions, Gabriel Mesa ’22 has been focused on using technology to help the people around him live better lives. His first submission to the Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC) — an annual competition for K-12 students...
Ariel Ekblaw ’14 B.S. came to Yale interested in answering big-picture questions about the universe. That led to a fascination with space, a degree in physics, math, and philosophy, and an enduring love for Yale’s interdisciplinary approach to learning...
Digital assistants like Alexa and Siri have become so integrated into our daily lives that most people don’t question their existence. But several Yale alumnae are thinking deeply about chatbots, as these assistants are known, and the cultural...
John Goodenough ’44 B.A., a professor at the University of Texas-Austin, received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery — an honor he shares with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York-...