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Welcome to the Asian Americans and STEM website! We are dedicated to promoting research, education, and wider scholarly and public communication at the intersection of humanities and STEM.

[Update] The interdisciplinary conference  Asian Americans and STEM 2026 was held on March 27, 2026. The meeting brought together scholars from the humanities and STEM fields who are actively engaged in exploring the history of race and racialization in their respective fields. Registration has been closed.

Please contact us via AsianAmSTEM@yale.edu.

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A Yale physicist — and IceCube member — salutes this year’s Nobel Prize winner

October 13, 2026
Yale physicist Reina Maruyama was part of the construction and commissioning team for the IceCube experiment, whose principal investigator, Francis Halzen, won the 2026 Nobel...
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Blazing a trail for computer-animated hair

October 13, 2026
If you’ve seen the recently released Toy Story 5 and noticed that one of the main characters, Blaze, has particularly realistic hair, you can thank Professor Theodore Kim.  ...

New Article: Teaching the History of Computing across Asia/America: Computerization, Globalization, and Racialization

May 1, 2026
Dr. Yoehan Oh, a member of the Asian Americans and STEM initiative, recently contributed a chapter to Histories of Computing in Asia: IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on...
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