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Menachem Elimelech, the Sterling Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, has been elected as a member of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).
05/21/2021 Push-ups, sit-ups, squats have been staples of exercise regimens since ancient Rome - and there’s still no exact way to measure them. But now there’s the Bulldog RepBox™, which helps everyone from average gym rats to pro athletes to perform them with complete consistency. The device could soon be seen in a lot more gyms, thanks to Projects2Products, an undergraduate student program that gives hands-on experience in turning student projects into commercial products. The program is supported by the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID), the Tsai Center for Innovat...
05/13/2021 Mark A. Reed, the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics, and integral member of the SEAS community for three decades, passed away peacefully in his home on May 5, 2021, at the age of 66. Reed was an exemplary engineer and physicist, an intellectual pioneer, and internationally recognized for his pioneering innovations in nanotechnology. He joined the Yale faculty in 1990 after working at Texas Instruments, where he coined the term "quantum dots" and demonstrated the first quantum dot device. For more than 30 years at Yale, Reed was extremely active...
By William Weir February 12, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this (Photo credit: Dean Drobot/Shutterstock.com) There are a few ways we perceive food, and not all are particularly well-understood. We know that much of it happens in the olfactory bulb, a small lump of tissue between the eyes and behind the nose, but how the stimuli arrive at this part of the brain is still being worked out. How these stimuli are processed in the brain plays a major role in our daily life. Fully understanding how our perceptions of food are f...
By William Weir January 28, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this This article originally appeared in . Inside a tumor, chatter abounds. Multiple cell types are constantly communicating with each other, exchanging various types of information. Some are working together against the tumor, while others help the tumor grow. Researchers have a good handle on who the main players are, but it can be difficult to tell the good ones from the bad ones, and who’s communicating with whom. To make things even more complicated, somet...