Yale University

Dear Members of the Yale Community, Many of you have written to me in the past week regarding investigations by the Department of Justice (DOJ) into the admissions processes of Yale School of Medicine, Yale College, and Yale Law School. At Yale, our standard is to refrain from commenting on ongoing legal matters to protect the integrity of the process for Yale.

Joseph Mougous, PhD, wants to understand the microscopic skirmishes that take place unseen in our guts, on our skin, or in the soil beneath our feet. Mougous, John F. Enders Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), studies bacterial warfare, or how different microbes defend their ecological niches against other species. This is an ancient form of conflict, honed over bacteria’s billions of years of evolution.

Making clinical decisions is often a team effort. Patients seeking cancer treatment, for instance, may have a surgeon, oncologist, pathologist, and radiologist all involved in their care. These multidisciplinary care teams, in which specialists with diverse perspectives come together, can diagnose a condition or determine the best course of treatment more effectively. New AI models could dramatically speed up this process.

During a week of record heat across Europe, COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago launched the Economics of Climate Organization (ECO) at London Climate Action Week. The initiative unites working groups established at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, who are applying advances in economics, finance, and global climate policy to build scalable solutions that work for high- and low-income countries. Rohini Pande, Henry J.

A material made from yttrium, barium, and copper oxide (better known as YBCO) has intrigued scientists since its discovery in 1987, largely because it retains its superconductive properties at a higher-than-normal temperature. However, it’s extremely brittle, which makes it tricky to put it to any kind of practical use. But researchers can still learn much from it.

Europe continues to outperform most of the world in climate action, according to the 2026 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), a data-driven, biennial scorecard of sustainability efforts produced by Yale School of the Environment and Columbia University researchers. Driven by significant greenhouse gas emissions reduction, European countries make up the entire top 10. Yet, many of those same countries are struggling to manage the environmental consequences of agriculture.

Curtis Robinhold ’03 MEM/MBA turned a conventional steel and concrete terminal into a climate-forward blueprint for the next generation of airports. Portland International Airport (PDX) looks wildly different than most terminals in the U.S. There are no glaring fluorescent lights, cold glass windows, or sterile steel beams. Instead, 72 trees and 5,000 living plants line the walkways and gathering spaces, greeting travelers as they hurry to their gates.

On Saturday, Yale will host the first session of the first Connecticut citizens’ assembly, convening 100 randomly selected people to deliberate over potentially new approaches for how to fund and deliver essential community services. Hélène Landemore, professor of political science and co-leader of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies Democratic Innovations program, designed the assembly and will help supervise it.

Announcement Real-world data platform providing de-identified electronic health records (EHR) for more than 120 million patients across the U.S. Truveta aggregates EHR data contributed daily by member health systems nationwide. Data is sent to a secure, cloud-based environment where it is processed, checked for quality, and standardized to common medical coding systems (SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC), which reduces the need for manual cleaning before research.

Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) has selected the second cohort of the Yale Directors Forum (YDF), an international fellowship program for cultural heritage leaders. The cohort includes 12 leaders from nine countries across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.