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YPS Core Programs

YPS programs create pathways to turn ambition into impact. 

  • YPS 2050

    YPS is beginning a timely and critical effort to create a strategic vision to guide our work. 

  • YPS Grant Program

    YPS oversees a competitive grant program that enables pioneering research and initiatives focused on impact.

  • YPS Doctoral Fellowship

    Join Yale’s premier doctoral fellowship training interdisciplinary leaders to solve climate change, biodiversity loss, and planetary crises.

  • Yale @ Climate Week NYC

    Yale @ Climate Week NYC offers a unique opportunity to engage with leading experts and change-makers at the forefront of climate action.

  • Sci X Sci-Fi

    Imagine a future you are excited to live in, that you can’t wait to get to. If it’s difficult, you’re not alone. 

  • Impact! Awards

    Impact! Awards bring together learners from multiple levels and academic backgrounds to form interdisciplinary project teams.

Combating climate change, biodiversity loss, and other urgent challenges demands technological innovation, political will, human understanding, and collective international action. Yale is drawing on all our strengths—knowledge, leadership, convening, and collaboration. And in partnership with peers around the globe…I am confident we will accelerate planetary solutions for a better world.

Maurie McInnis, Yale University President

Yale University President Maurie McInnis

Explore Our Action Areas

Learn about the challenges where we focus our efforts and see how Yale is working toward solutions

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