The Wu Tsai Institute will bring together neuroscience-related disciplines.
Dan Renzetti
Psychology professor Dylan Gee (right) and grad student Lucinda Sisk ’25PhD conduct an MRI scan. The Wu Tsai Institute will bring together faculty from psychology, neuroscience, and other disciplines. View full image
There it sits, three pounds made weightless in cerebrospinal fluid: the brain. It gives us the world but reveals nothing of itself. We have spent decades deconstructing its processes, from the emotions it conjures to the chemicals that cross synapses. Nearly every academic discipline has lent tools to the effort. “All of these fields have been working, mostly independently, trying to solve problems that on their own are very difficult to understand,” says Nicholas Turk-Browne ’09PhD, a Yale psychologist. “The question is: how do you make sense of this broad range of information? How do you relate something as complex as thought, decision, or language to chemicals an
Gift to Yale launches new research enterprise to study human cognition
Yale University today announced that a historic philanthropic gift will launch an ambitious new research enterprise devoted to the study of human cognition.
The gift, from Yale alumnus Joseph C. Tsai 86, 90 J.D., and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, establishes an innovative research organization that will bridge the psychological, biological, and computational sciences and pursue a mission to understand human cognition and explore human potential by sparking interdisciplinary inquiry.
Understanding cognition is one of the greatest challenges in the history of science. Thanks to the vision and generosity of Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, Yale will pursue a thrilling new approach to the intensive, long-term study of the brain and the wonders of the mind. This is a vast undertaking that advances Yale as a leader in scientific research, while promising insights that will improve life for people around the world.
February 16, 2021
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A view to the north from 100 College St., the future home of the Wu Tsai Institute. (Photo: Dan Renzetti)
The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams.
It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike.
Through it, we perceive, we wonder, we question: Why? How? What if?
Researchers at Yale University have been studying the brain for generations. Now, a new and historic philanthropic gift is launching an ambitious research enterprise devoted to the study of human cognition that will supercharge Yale’s neuroscience initiative and position the university to reveal the brain in its full, dynamic complexity.
Yale University today announced that a historic philanthropic gift will launch an ambitious new research enterprise devoted to the study of human cognition. The gift, from Yale alumnus Joseph C. Tsai 86, 90 J.D., and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, establishes an innovative research organization that will bridge the psychological, biological, and computational sciences and pursue a mission to understand human cognition and explore human potential by sparking interdisciplinary inquiry.
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James S. McDonnell Foundation Announces New 2020 Grants for The 21st Century Science Initiative Awards
February 1, 2021 GMT
ST. LOUIS (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 1, 2021
The Officers and Directors of the James S. McDonnell Foundation today announced more than $6 million in grants in their ongoing program, the
21 st Century Science Initiative. Together with previously announced grants, the Foundation’s total 2020 commitment is more than $18.5M.
In 2020, JSMF inaugurated the
Opportunity Awards funding new research studying human behavior across the lifespan using more naturalistic designs and dynamic measures better to reflect our day-to-day behavior.