A member of the Yale faculty since 1994, Eric Altman is an innovative, cross-disciplinary scholar and a leader in the field of chemical engineering.

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.

Humans use all surfaces of the hand for contact-rich manipulation. Robot hands, in contrast, typically use only the fingertips, which can limit dexterity. In a new study from the lab of Aaron Dollar, professor of mechanical engineering & materials science & computer science, researchers took a non-traditional approach to creating a new design for robotic hands.

Tso-Ping (T.P.) Ma, the Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics and pillar of the SEAS community for nearly 50 years, passed away peacefully on April 6, 2021, at the age of 75, after a brief illness.

By creating 3D models of dinosaur inner-ear bones, Yale paleontologists were able to shed light on how they behaved, and when they began to fly.

A team of Wright Lab researchers from the Yale High Energy Neutrino Physics group, including associate research scientist Domenico Franco and graduate students Lee Hagaman and Giacomo Scanavini, have recently joined the research and development (R&D) effort for a new detector technology that is being developed for use by the international ArgonCube collaboration.

Menachem Elimelech, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. His appointment was effective Feb. 20.

It has been generations since a world event enveloped us all in a shared trauma that motivates so many people to volunteer their time, shift career priorities and do their part. The COVID-19 pandemic’s lack of respect for borders and boundaries has also led to innovative and collaborative new partnerships for public health and the Yale community.

Nisheeth K. Vishnoi, who studies the foundations of computer science and machine learning, was appointed A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science.

Read about some of the important — even elegant — discoveries that occur when Yale researchers investigate the basic science of tiny, intricate phenomena.