Jonathan Rothberg — a pioneer in genetic sequencing technology, serial entrepreneur, Yale alumnus, and New Haven native — will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the White House announced Dec. 22.Jonathan RothbergThe medal is...
Yale University researchers have figured out a way to refine bulk metallic glasses to improve their electrochemical performance.Results of the research, based in the lab of chemical and environmental engineering professor André D. Taylor, are published in...
Computing and the Arts is a young major by Yale standards. Developed in 2008, it moved with the Department of Computer Science to the School of Engineering and Applied Science last spring. While other universities have digital arts majors, they often fall...
Leonid Glazman, the newly appointed Donner Professor of Physics, focuses his research on the physics of mesoscopic solids.Leonid GlazmanPhysics on the mesoscopic scale encompasses systems larger than single atoms but small enough so that their properties...
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, newly named as the William H. Fleming, M.D., Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, studies the molecular mechanisms underlying bacterial multiplication.Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Photo by Michael Marsland)...
James M. Mayer, newly named as the Leon I. and Helen Dickson Ross Professor of Chemistry, is a scientist whose interests span the fields of inorganic, materials, bioinorganic, organometallic, and physical organic chemistry.James M. Mayer (Photo by Michael...
Tim Rudner ’16 has joined the ranks of 2016 Rhodes Scholarship winners — making him the fourth Yale student to receive the prestigious scholarship this year. (See related story.)Tim RudnerRudner is a native of Germany, and his honor was announced along...
Fengnian Xia, newly named as the Barton L. Weller Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science, researches photonics and electronics using emerging materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and black phosphorus.Fengnian XiaXia’s...
Judy J. Cha, newly named as the Carol and Douglas Melamed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, focuses her research on synthesis and transport measurements of two-dimensional, layered nanochalcogenides, in particular...