Efforts & Resources Across Yale
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Yale Programs
From carbon pricing on Yale’s campus to climate communications for the world.
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Centers and Institutes
Generating solutions from labs to policies and from rainforests to ethics.
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Student Initiatives
Efforts by Yale’s students to meet today’s challenges with creativity, pragmatism, and passion.
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Special Initiatives
Rising to today’s challenges through teaching, research, and outreach.
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Laboratories and Other Facilities
Yale’s learning spaces provide hands-on education and serve as testing grounds for practical research.
Planetary Solutions Prize
Finalist teams with business ideas for a better world can compete at Startup Yale for the Planetary Solutions Prize. In 2025, judges awarded the first-place, $35,000 prize to Mudder AI, an AI-powered disaster management platform providing proactive risk analysis and optimized emergency response. The $15,000 second-place prize and audience choice award went to Verustruct for their innovative 3D-printing technology used to build sustainable houses for people experiencing housing insecurity.
Winning teams Mudder AI and Verustruct pose on stage with their giant checks at Startup Yale 2025
Funding Opportunities
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Grant Opportunities
Find funding opportunities, including internal grants and the federal SPIN database, on It’s Your Yale.
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Fellowships & Funding
The Office of Fellowships and Funding helps students identify funding opportunities and navigate the application process.
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YPS Grant Program
YPS oversees a competitive grant program that enables pioneering research and initiatives focused on impact.
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We’re working to provide as comprehensive resources as possible on our site. Please let us know at planetarysolutions@yale.edu if you’d like to add or update a resource.