Illuminating Origami Is Just Around The Corner
Pop-up greeting cards are about to get a whole lot more interesting. Researchers at Seoul National University in Korea have created glowing 3D objects with a series of prototypes that fold thin QLED (Quantum Dot LED) sheets like origami. They used a CO2 laser to etch “fold lines” in the QLED so the sheets could be formed into 3D shapes. The bends are actually rounded, but at 5μm they appear to be sharp corners and the panels...
University delays start to spring semester, shortens spring break from two weeks to one
Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will delay the start of the spring 2022 semester from Jan. 18 to Jan. 25, will move the first two weeks of classes online and will shorten spring break from two...
Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at University of Oregon // Ennead Architects
Project Status: Built Year: 2020 Size: 100,000 sqft – 300,000 sqft Text description provided by the architects. How can architecture encourage a community of researchers to perform at their best? The Knight...
Yale moves finals online and allows students to leave campus early
Yale administrators announced on Saturday that they have moved all remaining final exams online, following a number of peer institutions including Princeton and Cornell. Spring semester classes are still scheduled to begin on Jan. 18 and experts said a fully remote term is unlikely, but administrators have not yet ruled out the possibility of a remote start to the semester. Deans Marvin Chun, Lynn Cooley and Tamar Gendler issued a...
Harvard remote for first three weeks of January, Yale sees largest-ever single-day COVID spike
Harvard officials announced Saturday morning that the university would transition to remote operations for the first three weeks of January. Some academic offerings and work done by faculty and staff will be conducted...
Omicron variant detected at Yale, University moves to grab-and-go dining but proceeds with in-person exams
Despite the detection of the Omicron COVID-19 variant within the Yale community and increased demand for isolation housing, the University currently has no plans to send students home from campus early or to move final...
Yale accepts 10.9 percent of early action applicants
On Wednesday evening, 800 students discovered that Yale offered them admission to the College’s class of 2026. The students were admitted from a pool of 7,288 early action applicants — the second highest number in Yale’s history — which yields an acceptance rate of 10.9 percent. The acceptance rate rose slightly from last year when 10.5 percent of early action applicants, or 837 students, received an offer of admission. But...
