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.