Inside the new 100 College St. building
The new home of the Wu Tsai Institute and the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience is designed for modern collaboration and research.
AVI PATEL
Yale’s psychology and neuroscience departments, alongside the Wu Tsai Institute — the University’s new hub for neuroscience and cognition — have a newly renovated home at 100 College St.
Located at the southern end of campus, adjacent to the School of Medicine and School of Public Health, 100 College St. is co-occupied by the University, which has seven floors, and global biopharmaceutical company Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which occupies the rest of the building. Although construction of the building began in 2013 and finished in 2015, the interior was only fully completed following donations from Joe Tsai ’86 LAW ’90 and Clara Wu Tsai in 2021. The space is designed to promote multidisciplinary exchange between psychology, an undergraduate college department; neuroscience, a medical school department; and the Wu Tsai Institute, or WTI, a research hub.
On Friday, February 23, in collaboration with the Wu Tsai Institute, and building on the success of a previous collaboration between Dance Theatre of Harlem and Zuckerman/Columbia University, Yale Schwarzman Center will present Brain and the Barre: Human Cognition Made Visible Through Dance. Bringing leading research on human cognition in conversation with world-class ballet dancers from the Dance Theatre of Harlem; DTH Artistic Director Robert Garland; Shreya Saxena Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering and Wu Tsai Investigator; and Samuel McDougle Assistant Professor of Psychology, Director, Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab. The conversation includes live demonstration of mind body connections through learning, memory, and creativity.
Yale Engineering is proud to welcome its newest faculty for the 2023-24 academic year. These six new faculty members – with more to be announced soon – mark the continued growth of the School and investment in the research areas illustrated in the SEAS Strategic Vision.
The latest faculty arrivals are valuable additions to the applied physics, biomedical, and mechanical engineering and materials science departments. Their expertise includes machine learning, artificial intelligence, atomic engineering, quantum computing, photon physics, neuroscience, and biological networks.
One year into the coursework for a mechanical engineering degree, Dr. Shreya Saxena couldn’t take one more lecture on the inner workings of lawnmowers and drills. It all felt so disconnected from the world, and more importantly seemed to have little to no impact on real people. Hungry for different stimulation, she attended a lecture where Dr. Henry Markram explained how to reverse engineer the brain using the computational principles she studied in the classroom. That day, Shreya’s eyes were opened to the possibilities of marrying engineering and the brain, and she hasn’t shut her eyes since.
To study something as freewheeling, spontaneous, and variable as play, researchers had to get creative.
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The Atlantic
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Shreya Saxena receives Graduate Women of Excellence Award
June 5, 2017
We are pleased to share that LIDS student Shreya Saxena was named a 2017 Graduate Woman of Excellence.
Given bienially by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE), the honorees were nominated and selected based on their leadership and service contributions at the Institute, their dedication to mentoring, and their drive to make changes to improve the student experience.
Shreya has a long history of doing all three. In her tenure at LIDS, she has been an active and dedicated member of the community, having served over the years as a member of the LIDS Socials Committee, a co-chair of the LIDS Student Conference, and most recently as a co-organizer of the weekly LIDS & Stats Tea series. She is also part of EECS Refs, a select group of EECS graduate students trained as peer mediators, whose role is "to support the graduate community and serve as a first point of contact in dealing with stress and conflict, however big or small."
The LIDS community congratulates Shreya for this well-deserved recognition!