On Wednesday, April 3, 16 teams of Yale College students will pitch ideas as finalists in the Chun Challenge for Change, a collaboration between Tsai CITY and Yale College’s Dean Marvin Chun.

“A man stands beside a chair, almost fully in profile, dressing himself. He is methodical: navy blue pants over matching blue long underwear, collared blue shirt, black belt.

“Tsai CITY is a cross-campus resource for any student at Yale — undergraduate or graduate. We are a hub for interdisciplinary collaboration, and a place for students from different disciplines to come together to develop groundbreaking ideas for solving real-world problems."

One of CITY’s key objectives is to foster skills in risk-taking and resilience among our students. The importance of risk-taking and learning from failure is a familiar refrain in innovation and entrepreneurship circles, from Silicon Valley’s “fail fast” mantra to the popularity of failure-focused story nights.

11 student teams from across Yale’s campus make up CITY’s spring 2019 Accelerator cohort. The Accelerator, which runs every fall and spring semester, guides student innovators through the process of building effective organizations, projects, and ventures.

Developed by Dwight Hall at Yale | Center for Public Service and Social Justice and Tsai CITY, the Neighbor in Residence (NiR) program is a paid, semester-long fellowship for New Haven community leaders, changemakers, and leaders with lived experience to engage, grow, share knowledge, and expand networks within the Yale community.

“Tanzila ‘Taz’ Ahmed and Zahra Noorbakhsh will host a live recording of their #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast on Monday, March 4 at 6:45 p.m., in the Leeds Motion Capture Studio at 149 York St.

“We don’t want to be architects who look down on people, dictating the spaces they live in. We want to be at the same level — to be not someone who designs their life, but someone who understands their life.”

On a recent Saturday afternoon, students and practitioners from diverse fields could be found in every corner of Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM), filling studios and workspaces with computers, headsets, and plenty of snacks as they brainstormed together.