Undergraduate Profile: Alex Cohen ’21, Kendra Libby ’21, and Jason Yang ’21
Celebrating Yale’s Three Goldwater Scholarship Winners
Alex Dong and Athena Stenor
April 24, 2021
Celebrating Yale’s Three Goldwater Scholarship Winners
Tons of waste are transported to landfills every day, but plasma gasification aims to change that. Plasma gasification plants convert trash into syngas (a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide) which can then be converted into electricity or fuel, all without producing the harmful byproducts of incineration.
As federal agencies endure budget cuts from the March sequestration, funding shortages are taking an early toll on medical research. Scientists who rely on federal research grants are finding it more difficult to continue their research at the quality and efficiency of previous years.
The fate of many species is uncertain in the face of climate change. While some can adapt to changes, others cannot, and might face extinction..
Part of NWA 7325, the first meteorite on Earth believed to have come from Mercury is on display at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Johanna Press ’15, a geology & geophysics major, won an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting for her work on modelling toxic trace element concentrations in the San Francisco Bay.
Bill McKibben’s Eaarth not only strikingly describes the desolate state our planet is currently in and how it came to be this way, but also prescribes a plan to revert this change for the sake of current and future generations.