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The Biodesign Institute
Yale West Campus will host several interdisciplinary Life Science Institutes; plans for the newly announced Biodesign Institute are being solidified and faculty members are being recruited for all the Institutes
Read More »Yale Engineering & Science Weekend
Select applicants to Yale’s class of 2015 visited Yale during Yale Engineering and Science Weekend (YES-W), a new recruiting initiative from the Yale Admissions Office aimed at attracting talented engineering, science, and math students
Read More »Principal Investigators
A Principal Investigator’s (PI) office yields a valuable window into his psyche. Dr. Charles Baltay’s office, unmistakably that of a senior professor, is no exception. The worn-in room is strewn with a variety of
Read More »Graduate Students
Scientific research labs throughout Yale probe the frontiers of human knowledge. Graduate students are at the heart of this process. Every day, graduate students perform the experiments and analyses that eventually produce new discoveries.
Read More »Laboratory Technicians
Behind the institutional mask of Yale Science is a living, breathing group of people making it all happen. In this second of a four-part series, Chenyu Lin explores the role of laboratory technicians
Read More »Undergraduate Researchers
Editor’s Note: This installment is part one of a four part series covering the experiences of scientific researchers at Yale. Next issue, check back for an exploration of the life of laboratory technicians Scientific
Read More »Going Green: Sustainable Design at Yale
Sustainable design, aimed at minimizing energy consumption, using energy efficiently, maximizing renewable energy production, and reducing carbon emissions, is being applied to buildings at Yale, including the Malone Center and the new Kroon Hall
Read More »CRISP Materials Research: Unlocking the Potential of Complex Metal Oxides
Few undergrads may know this, but Yale is the home of one of the nation’s premier materials science research centers, the Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP)
Read More »Another Time, Another SSS: A Brief History of the Sheffield Scientific School
Founded in 1847, the first building of the Sheff School was erected on what is now Farnam Hall. The school was one of the first to incorporate both the sciences and liberal arts into
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