In September 2023, the Yale community celebrated the rededication of Kline Tower, a Science Hill landmark formerly known as Kline Biology Tower, following an ambitious top-to-bottom renovation.
The sixteen-story building now features open-concept programming space that promotes collaboration and connection across departments and disciplines. The building serves as the new home to the departments of astronomy, mathematics, and statistics and data science, all of which are part of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A portion of the Department of Physics is also now located in Kline Tower, as is the new Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science.
The project is part of a larger investment in Science Hill, which is rooted in Yale’s strategy to accelerate science and engineering, with a focus on five multidisciplinary areas and several cross-cutting initiatives identified in 2018 by a faculty-led University Science Strategy Committee.