Sci-Tech | 12:44 am | May 8, 2013 | By

Bulldogs Racing comes first in New Hampshire

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Nobody expected Yale to finish first. But on May 2, the Bulldogs Racing team won the 2013 Formula Hybrid International at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway with a gas-electric racecar built over the last two years. The victory against teams from across the world helps establish Bulldogs Racing in a field often dominated by more technical schools, according »

City | 2:58 pm | April 25, 2013 | By

‘Night Rainbow’ shines over Elm City

The rainbow light structure will shine across the Elm City through Saturday.

The rainbow soaring across the New Haven sky Wednesday evening was not celebrating the imminent legalization of same-sex marriage in Rhode Island: Instead, “Global Rainbow New Haven” — a project that features a laser light sculpture projecting the full spectrum of the rainbow — marks the beginning of New Haven’s 375th anniversary celebration. The lasers will light »

Sci-Tech | 5:47 pm | March 13, 2013 | By

Eight Yale scientists elected to CASE

Eight Yale faculty members are among the 33 scientists elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) this year. Election is based on exceptional contributions to a particular area of scientific research. Yale faculty are well-represented in the Academy, constituting 24 percent of the class of 2013, 38 percent of the class of 2012 and 31 »

Sci-Tech | 9:19 pm | February 17, 2013 | By

Yale celebrates National Engineers Week

This week, Yale will celebrate National Engineers Week for the second time with activities ranging from lectures and networking to trivia and ice cream socials. The event, which is designed to celebrate the “positive contributions engineers make to society,” will kick off with two discussions about engineering entrepreneurship tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. with a talk by »

University | 6:31 pm | February 11, 2013 | By

Vanderlick reappointed SEAS dean

School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean T. Kyle Vanderlick will serve a second five-year term, University President Richard Levin and President-elect Peter Salovey announced in a joint statement. In their statement, Levin and Salovey lauded Vanderlick for her work strengthening the engineering culture at Yale. In particular, the administrators praised the Center for Engineering Innovation and »