This fall, I started a new role, which came with one of the coolest job titles I’ve ever held: “Environmental Innovation Fellow.” When I told that to friends and family, they responded with both fascination and confusion, occasionally following up with, “What does that mean?” It’s a good question, one that I’ve often struggled to answer for myself over the last four months.

Earlier this month, Mona Bijoor visited Yale for a series of conversations with students, from a breakfast talk as part of the Yale Women Innovators Series to a fireside chat at the School of Management.

Yale Engineering Magazine covers a collaborative program offered by Tsai CITY, the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, and L’Oréal last fall.

On November 15, the Yale OpenLab launched a first-of-its kind hackathon — termed a collabathon — that’s connecting policy experts, technologists, designers, and others around the globe for a two-week sprint that applies an ethos of “radical collaboration” to the fight against climate change.

While she was growing up in Los Angeles, Marina Marmolejo ’19 M.P.H. says the problem of homelessness seemed too big to address in a meaningful way. But when she came to New Haven to attend Yale School of Public Health and began working with local homelessness organizations, she saw an opportunity to make a difference.

Each summer, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) offers summer fellowships to student entrepreneurs. Founders from across Yale spend eight weeks working on their ideas and getting a crash course in what it takes to start a successful company.

On Thursday, 14 teams presented their ideas to the Yale community in the Tsai CITY Fall 2019 Accelerator Pitch-off.
The teams had just completed a five-week program to incubate their ideas for businesses, nonprofits, social movements and new technologies.

A first-of-its-kind event will connect technologists, policy experts, students, and others around the globe in a shared effort to build an open source platform for transparent climate accounting — with the goal of tracking progress toward the targets set in the Paris Agreement.

The Yale entrepreneurial community gathered Thursday, November 7, under the leadership of Accelerate Yale, a Yale Alumni Association shared interest group, to launch the Yale Angels initiative at Company in New York City.