Draft:Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture (Yale CEA)

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Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture (Yale CEA) is an academic collaboration between the Yale schools of Architecture, Environment, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, and Engineering and Applied Sciences at Yale University. Yale CEA was founded in 2017 by Anna Dyson, the Hines Professor of Sustainable Architecture and Professor at the School of the Environment at Yale University. Prof. Dyson previously founded CASE (Center for Architecture Science and Ecology) at RPI.

Yale CEA unites researchers and practitioners across multiple fields, synthesizing innovations in science, art, and humanities towards ecosystems that prioritize the requirements of living organisms and ecologies.

Yale CEA’s interdisciplinary research focuses on clean energy generation, sustainable water capture and renewable material production in order to bolster biodiversity and resiliency of ecosystems. Additionally, the center investigates the interactions between plants, animals, and the environment, to radically transform the way energy, water, and built infrastructures are designed.

Yale CEA also collaborates with industry partners and policymakers to apply research findings and to develop novel systems that have a positive impact on our environment and society while promoting a more sustainable future.

Publications
Yale CEA publishes its research and designs in peer-reviewed scientific journals and international policy publications including reports for the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). Yale CEA’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and numerous Architectural Design publications including A+U, Metropolis, Dezeen, Architect Magazine, and Dwell.

Awards
Yale CEA’s work has received international recognition for innovation in architectural design, scientific research, and artistic achievement, including the First Prize for Innovation from the American Institute of Architects (AIA); Award of Excellence from the US Green Building Council (USGBC); Award for Most Innovative Academic Program from the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA); New York Design Award; Young Architects Program from MoMA PS1; Women in Architecture Awards; Holcim Award; Chicago Atheneum; Good Green Design Award.

Sponsors
Yale CEA collaborates with government, non-profit, and industry sponsors and partners who share its mission to promote social and environmental justice through innovative design. Yale CEA is enabled by sponsored research programs to generate new knowledge and further innovative socio-environmental methods. Past sponsors include:

National Science Foundation (NSF); United States Department of Energy (US DOE); US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); New York State Energy Research Development Authority (NYSERDA); Empire State Development's Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR); New Energy Xcelerator in Upstate New York (NEXUS-NY); New York City Department of Design and Construction (NYC-DDC); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, San Francisco Foundation; Baruch Foundation, Enel Foundation, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Habitat.