How do you teach architecture that truly matters? By empowering students to design real projects, for real communities.

From Connecticut to Florida, to the Midwest and beyond, students and faculty at the Yale School of Architecture are building community-first solutions with lasting impact — expanding housing access, advancing sustainability, and rethinking how we shape the built environment.

Innovation That Matters: Episode 2 shows how hands-on learning at Yale is driving real-world change. 

The Center for Interactive Media has established five goals and will also address the growing gap in Georgia’s digital economy by integrating human-centered, user-experience research, ethical artificial intelligence (AI) design, and immersive media development into a unified research and development pipeline. Plans for the center include building a physical space with a virtual and augmented reality room, a game studio, motion capture and sound room, and a focus room for user experience. In addition, the CIM will establish a presence in the metaverse, a virtual reality environment.

A new chapter in Singapore’s healthcare story began today as 78 aspiring doctors from Duke-NUS Medical School’s 19th Doctor of Medicine (MD) cohort donned their white coats and recited the Hippocratic Oath, committing themselves to a future of medical excellence, professionalism and a lifelong service of healing.

Engineers at the University of Cincinnati are developing new digital tools that employers can use to prevent worker injuries from accidents, repetitive stress and other common causes.

With deep industry ties, hands-on learning and a legacy of innovation, the Architecture for Health program at Texas A&M University prepares future architects to transform environments and lives.

North America has lost an estimated 3 billion birds since 1970. But in one giant commercial forest in Maine? The birds are thriving. “When we started this project, we expected to add to the pile of bad news... We were pleasantly surprised,” says Tufts University Professor Michael Reed.