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...
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...
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...
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...
Last year’s winners of the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale.
Yale researchers have an opportunity to receive substantial funding for their promising life sciences research through the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale. And, this year, there’...
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...
Jonathan Rothberg ’91 Ph.D. leans over the wooden table at Pa’s Place, a small food stand on the site of his accelerator 4Catalyzer in Guilford, Connecticut, his hands moving animatedly. Outside, just across the street, the Long Island Sound stretches...