From CITY’s inception, serving students has been its top priority. But what does that look like in practice? To help us figure that out, we’ve convened a Student Advisory Board (SAB) composed of students nominated from each of Yale’s schools, from Yale College to professional schools like law and nursing.

As virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies become increasingly accessible, the big question on many people’s minds is how these new tools will translate to meaningful applications.

Under the bright lights of the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID), a trio of students ripped into a small collection of Amazon packages. Though their delight with the newly acquired wares may have confused an unknowing spectator walking past the floor-to-ceiling windows on Prospect Street, to Jonara Jimenez, Enrique Martinez, and Diane Yu, the contents of the package — an assortment of pastel-colored foam hair rollers — represented the exciting possibilities for their team, Team Highlights.

“Your mother is in the fridge, and you must feed her.” This instruction may have startled anyone passing through the Marsh Hall classroom on a Friday afternoon this October, but to those gathered around the table with Charlie Negaro Jr. of New Haven’s Atticus Bookstore Café, it was a mandate to begin their journey with sourdough bread making.

”Hoping to foster connections between the Yale Divinity School and the broader Yale community, several Divinity School students have founded ‘Divinnovation’ — a group that aims to support innovative faith-based projects and social impact work.

From a lack of roles on mainstream television to the 25-year gap between The Joy Luck Club and this year’s Crazy Rich Asians (the most recent major movies to feature majority Asian American casts), Asian American representation in media and the arts continues to lag.

As the season’s first snow fell on New Haven, a crowd filed into a Yale School of Management classroom, shedding coats and hats as they settled in for CITY’s fall Accelerator Pitch-Off, a chance to hear 14 Yale student teams pitch the big ideas they’d developed over the semester.

We talked to CITY mentor-in-residence Margaret Cartiera about Yale’s healthcare innovation ecosystem and how she applies her background to supporting students.

“‘We want to create an ecosystem for students to develop and pursue their ideas, be it a social movement, a rock band, a documentary series, or a nonprofit organization,’ Associate Director of Tsai CITY Onyeka Obiocha told the News.