Six days, 14 hours, and 37 minutes without a reply to my request for an interview. I interpreted the deafening radio silence as an unmistakable signal: Anne Coates didn’t want to meet me. Meanwhile, a reply from acoates@creativeartsworkshop.org lounged in my Junk folder, unopened, for almost a week.

Victoria Hewlett (Yale College ’19) arrived in New Haven knowing she was interested in community organizing and developing a more sustainable, just, and community-centered economy. Before transferring to Yale College from Northeast State Community College in Tennessee, she had worked on a team research project on Appalachian economic history and public health.

Tuesday’s Yale Entrepreneurship & Innovation Expo brought together Yale’s many entrepreneurial organizations and clubs for a three-hour meet-and-greet with one another and members of the New Haven business community.

Last fall, Tsai CITY and the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) partnered with L’Oréal to host a new Intensive, titled Product Development and Innovation. The cohort-based, multi-session program brought together students from cross-campus disciplines, placing them in teams and challenging them to develop novel products.

This summer, ten teams are spending eight intensive weeks with Tsai CITY, working on their ventures and projects as part of the 2019 Summer Fellowship. We’ll be following along as the teams sprint through the program, sharing their goals and experiences. This week, we’re taking a look at two teams that are innovating key processes to maximize effectiveness in health and safety.

This summer, ten teams are spending eight intensive weeks with Tsai CITY, working on their ventures and projects as part of the 2019 Summer Fellowship. We’ll be following along as the teams sprint through the program, sharing their goals and experiences.

“Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong proclaimed that he was taking ‘one giant leap for mankind’ as he became the first human being to walk on the surface of the moon. That pioneering lunar stroll required a decade-spanning scientific effort, still considered one of humanity’s greatest achievements.

Yale brought Caroline Tanbee Smith ’14 B.S. and Margaret Lee ’14 B.A. to New Haven from their respective Kentucky homes, but it was the city and the community that enticed them to stay long after graduation. “One of the reasons we go to school is to receive a holistic education,” says Tanbee Smith, who co-founded the community accelerator Collab with Lee not long after they graduated. “It’s an opportunity to be a part of a of a larger city.”

On July 11, Statera Therapeutics — a healthcare startup led by Yale students and recent grads — took the grand prize at the NYU-Yale Summer Accelerator Pitchoff, sharing their idea with a lively crowd in Manhattan. Statera’s victory brought the pitchoff’s trophy to New Haven for the second consecutive year.