Researcher working in lab

Science and Engineering

Advance research and spark discoveries that can improve lives

The discoveries and new knowledge achieved by Yale’s science and engineering faculty, students, and staff have already and will continue to benefit millions of people. Yale’s strategy to accelerate science and engineering is targeted and specific, focusing on five multidisciplinary areas and several cross-cutting initiatives identified by a faculty committee and selected for their impact and feasibility.

Data Science and Computer Science: Advance fundamental research in big data, computational tools, and other mathematical and technological areas, with application across nearly every discipline and area of research across campus.

Inflammation Science: Accelerate work that offers insights into the underlying causes of inflammation and its role in a wide range of conditions, including COVID-19, arthritis, cancer, depression, and multiple sclerosis.

Neuroscience: Expand the frontiers of knowledge, from molecular and cellular neuroscience to organismal cognition and behavior and advance the understanding of the human mind, including how the brain functions and how it can be repaired. 

Planetary Solutions: Create solutions for climate crises through an integrated, multidisciplinary approach with a goal of accelerating solutions for a range of challenges, including biodiversity loss, health and economic disruptions, climate justice, and evolutionary response. 

Quantum Science and Engineering: Augment Yale’s global leadership in quantum research, which is ushering in a second information age and will revolutionize technological developments across every sector, and which intersects with many other university initiatives. 

Cross-Cutting Initiatives: Support the people, facilities, and instruments that make world-changing discoveries possible and expand opportunities for innovation and transformative research to solve the world’s most challenging problems. 

Highlighting Progress

Yale Science Building

This new building serves as a central hub for multidisciplinary collaboration and boasts cutting-edge technology, from the wet-bench labs of the Quantitative Biology Institute to the cryo-electron microscopy facility.

Yale Science Building

Renovated Wright Laboratory

The transformation of this facility enables the investigation of fundamental interactions in nuclear and particle physics and astrophysics, from neutrinos to dark matter.

Researchers working in Wright lab

A New Innovation Corridor

Centered along the southern stretch of Prospect Street and Hillhouse Avenue, the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, Greenberg Teaching Concourse of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) help nurture creative thinking and entrepreneurial solutions to real-world problems.

Exterior Tsai City building

School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)

The transformation of SEAS into a distinct faculty focusing on initiatives in artificial intelligence, biological systems, materials science, mathematical modeling, and “robotics for humanity” allows the school to reimagine its culture and expand its research. In conjunction with this transformation, the university plans a historic reinvention of lower Hillhouse Avenue, a combination of new and renovated spaces that will reflect the school’s ethos of innovation and collaboration, help nurture ne

Exterior view of the School of Engineering and Applied Science

Yale Peabody Museum

The renovated and expanded Peabody provides new research, educational, and exhibition spaces to serve the Yale and local communities, including the redesigned iconic Great Hall of Dinosaurs. The museum now joins the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art in offering free public admission.

Work being done in the Great Hall of Dinosaurs

Selected Milestones

October 2015
Founded the Yale Quantum Institute

August 2016
Launched the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation

March 2017
Transformed Department of Statistics to Department of Statistics and Data Science

April 2017
Established the Neuroscience major

May 2017
Opened the renovated Wright Laboratory

July 2017
Founded the Quantitative Biology Institute

Fall 2017
Launched the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)
Dedicated the Greenberg Teaching Concourse at the School of Engineering and Applied Science

December 2017
Established the Yale Institute for Global Health

February 2018
Launched the Center for Biomedical Data Science (CBDS)

June 2018
Released University Science Strategy Committee’s report

August 2018
Announced $160 million gift to renovate the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

January 2019
Planned new research facilities at 100 College Street to bridge the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Yale School of Medicine

October 2019
Opened the Yale Science Building

December 2019
Released the Neuroscience Working Group report

February 2020
Established Physical Sciences and Engineering Building (PSEB) Working Groups and Town Hall

March 2020
Began renovation and expansion of Yale Peabody Museum
Projected to reopen in 2024.

August 2020
Opened the Tsai CITY building 
Launched a national Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage, with leadership including Yale faculty

Fall 2020
Launched Kline Tower renovation

October 2020
Launched tuition matching pilot program for graduate students

December 2020
Launched Planetary Solutions Project

February 2021
Announced establishment of the Wu Tsai Institute

March 2021
Launched the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture

April 2021
Published the Report of the Committee on Fossil Fuel Investment Principles

June 2021
Announced goal to achieve zero actual carbon emissions by 2050

August 2021
Released report of School of Engineering & Applied Science Strategic Planning Committee

September 2021
Announced establishment of Data-Intensive Social Science Center and inaugural co-directors

October 2021
Completed renovation of Energy Sciences Institute

January 2022
Launched Climate Impact Innovation Fund
Established the Tananbaum Center for Theoretical and Analytical Human Biology
Announced the expansion of the Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) Program

February 2022
Established investment to expand and streamline SEAS, with a distinct faculty led by the dean
Created endowment funds for Yale School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Public Health
Announced the reorganization of Yale School of Public Health into an independent school

April 2022
Launched Center for Infection & Immunity
Launched Yale Ventures

May 2022
Released vision and report of Advanced Instrumentation Development Center

July 2022
Announced the Three Cairns Climate Program for the Global South

August 2022
Created the Center for Brain and Mind Health
Broke ground for new building at Yale New Haven Hospital that will house the Stephen and Denise Adams Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research

September 2022
Launched redesigned Yale Carbon Charge

October 2022
Launched Institute for Foundations of Data Science (Kline Tower Institute)
Hired executive director of Yale’s Data-Intensive Social Science Center
Announced changes to Patent Royalty Sharing Practices

Fall 2022
Established the Section for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

February 2023
Established historic investment in engineering, lower Hillhouse Avenue