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.

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 three teams that are using software to empower users to streamline processes and make effective decisions.

Here at Tsai CITY, we had a busy 2018–2019 school year. We engaged over 10% of Yale’s student body and students from all 14 of Yale’s schools, from architecture to medicine. We ran a diverse portfolio of extracurricular programs, awarded almost $250,000 of funding, and advised hundreds of students and teams working on creative ideas.

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.

Yale research spills over into the local economy, creating jobs and life-saving discoveries that benefit the world.

The Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) is pleased to announce Clare Leinweber as its next executive director.