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Yang named 2020 AAAS fellow
Seven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 489 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society
A one-way street for acoustic waves
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard University have developed a non-reciprocal device for acoustic waves that could be used in next-generation wireless communication and quantum computing
Four McKelvey Engineering faculty receive LEAP awards
Four faculty members in the McKelvey School of Engineering recently received awards to prepare their products for commercialization
Changing the World Through Science, Lan Yang is an Inspiration for Women at Washington University
From her childhood in China to optical resonators at WashU, Lan Yang has always followed her innovative spirit
Tuning optical resonators gives researchers control over transparency
Method has ramifications for quantum computing, communications and more
Yang named 2020 IEEE Fellow
Lan Yang, the Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering , has been named an IEEE Fellow