Science on Saturdays at Yale, 2017 - 2018

Trouble with a soufflé? Did your hollandaise sauce separate? Join us for the entertaining lecture by Professor Elsa Yan on how chemistry is the key to winning on Cake Wars! Science Saturdays is a special lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. Bring the whole family! For more event information, go to:

If Elvis had been a scientist, he would have become a materials physicist just to watch atoms shake, rattle and roll. This Saturday, listen to Professor Judy Cha tell us about the tools she uses to not only watch atoms move, but also to manipulate them into structures one atom at a time!Science Saturdays is a special lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. Bring the whole family! For more event information, go to:

Speaker: Timothy Newhouse (Yale Chemistry) Making the materials and therapeutics of the future, synthetic chemists synthesize and discover new molecules by twisting bonds and stereocenters at their will. Come join us to learn from Professor Tim Newhouse how the real Walter Whites of the world manipulate organic molecules to get rich. Science Saturdays is a special lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. Bring the whole family! For more event information, go to:

How does a cell move? What makes a muscle twitch? If you have ever wondered about the molecular motors that let single-celled bacteria swim or make it possible for you to dance, come hear about them from Prof. Tom Pollard, the man who wrote the book on cell biology and motility. Science Saturdays is a special lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. The whole family is welcome and refreshments are served. This series occurs three times each semester. For more event information go to:

In the world of quantum physics, small particles act like waves, can appear to be in more than one place at the same time, and pass through walls they don’t have the energy to get over. Most of the time, we can’t see these quantum effects in our classical scale world, but if you look carefully, there are non-intuitive manifestations of quantum physics all around us. Join us to learn about the surprising quantum motions of everyday objects from our very own professor of quantum mechanics and physics, Prof. Jack Harris. Science Saturdays is a special lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. The whole family is welcome and refreshments are served.This series occurs three times each semester. For more event information go to:

Today's engineers not only can build better mouse-traps, they are figuring out how to build better mice – and people. Come hear Prof. Anjelica Gonzalez describe how she and other biomedical engineers are using the techniques of tissue engineering to provide better diagnostic tools and develop cures for challenging human ailments. Science Saturdays is a special lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. The whole family is welcome and refreshments are served.This series occurs three times each semester. For more event information go to: Prof. Anjelica Gonzalez, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Ultrafast pulsed lasers are the strobe lights of chemistry, making it possible to take movies of how molecules and even electrons move. Join us this Science on Saturday to hear how Prof. Charlie Schmuttenmaer uses fast lasers and terahertz radiation to make better materials for use in photovoltaics and solar fuel production. Science Saturdays is an award-winning lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. This weekend will feature an inflatable planetarium and robots from Hill Regional Career High School's robotics team! Bring the whole family! Refreshments will be served. Free parking is available at the Sachem-Prospect Garage on Prospect Street. Entrance to the garage is in the Yale Ingalls Ice Rink lot. For more event information go to:

This Saturday, take a journey to the center of the earth to learn about the physics and chemistry that take place at high pressures deep within our planet. Come listen to Geology and Geophysics Professor Kanani Lee as she describes how her experimental exploration of extremes in the lab has produced new insights into planetary evolution, discovered exotic new materials, and identified the possibility of diamond core planets. Science Saturdays is an award-winning lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. This weekend will feature an inflatable planetarium and robots from Hill Regional Career High School's robotics team! Bring the whole family! Refreshments will be served. Free parking is available at the Sachem-Prospect Garage on Prospect Street. Entrance to the garage is in the Yale Ingalls

Why do some folks live to be 120 years old without developing cancer, while others develop cancer during childhood? You would think immortality is a good thing, but not when it leads to cancer. At Science on Saturday March 31, come listen to Professor Sandy Chang tell us about how telomeres, the structures at the end of your chromosomes, link aging and cancer. Science Saturdays is an award-winning lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. This weekend will feature an inflatable planetarium and robots from Hill Regional Career High School's robotics team! Bring the whole family! Refreshments will be served. Free parking is available at the Sachem-Prospect Garage on Prospect Street. Entrance to the garage is in the Yale Ingalls Ice Rink lot. For more event information go to:

What's the better polymer, synthetic or natural? Nylon or silk? Kevlar or chitin? Come learn from Prof. Alanna Schepartz how chemical biologists are engineering artificial organisms to make better materials than ever imagined before. Science Saturdays is an award-winning lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. This weekend will feature an inflatable planetarium and robots from Hill Regional Career High School's robotics team! Bring the whole family! Refreshments will be served. Free parking is available at the Sachem-Prospect Garage on Prospect Street. Entrance to the garage is in the Yale Ingalls Ice Rink lot. For more event information go to: