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Present and future students at Yale’s drama school will no longer pay tuition, thanks to a landmark gift from entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen. The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is the only institution of its kind to eliminate tuition for all degree and certificate students, removing financial barriers to access.

In the early morning hours, Sapheya Elhadi BK ’23 sat awake in her bedroom in Qatar, anxiously awaiting news from across the world.

The Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center aims to set new standards for the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with brain tumors.

With David Dominik’s funding, Yale’s groundbreaking economic and social science findings concerning the pandemic are disseminated to government and media figures for high impact.

A transformative gift from Joseph C. Tsai ’86, ’90 J.D., and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, has launched the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University, with a mission to understand human cognition and explore human potential by sparking interdisciplinary inquiry.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us. It powers virtual assistants, smartwatches, map apps, and more. Advances in AI also benefit a range of industries from communications, to agriculture, to healthcare. But AI has an efficiency problem.

When the SARS-CoV-2 virus caused a global pandemic, PhD candidate Alessandro Zulli began to apply his research in chemical engineering to tracking outbreaks of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. “I had already been focused on viral populations,” Alessandro says.

Each fall, the Yale Alumni Fund’s annual participation challenge is an opportunity for alumni to make a difference for today’s undergraduates. The 2020 participation challenge, Yale Leads for Students, runs from October 19 through October 23.