Startup Launched from Yale CEID: When Ellen Su started at Yale, she planned to major in art and study painting, but got interested in design and sculpture. She supplemented her studies with courses in mechanical engineering and ended up with a degree in art focused on product design. "I think recently there's been a big resurgence in design and design thinking," she says. "I ended up picking courses that I felt were related to what I was doing."

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