Renovations to the facilities at 100 College Street allowed Yale University the space for the innovative Wu Tsai Institute. Located on the 11th floor of the building, the Institute will use their new space to achieve their mission of understanding human cognition and the exploration of human potential through interdisciplinary inquiry.

Research activities within the Institute are facilitated through three interdependent pillars: the Center for Neurodevelopment and Plasticity, the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior, and the Center for Neural Computation and Machine Intelligence. Strategically located between Main Campus and Yale’s Medical Center, the Institute will serve as a research hub for scientists at Yale across a wide variety of departments and research disciplines.

Also located in the newly renovated building is Yale’s Department of Psychology and BrainWorks – a space that will directly support the initiatives at the Wu Tsai Institute. The new building gives the Department of Psychology a singular shared home, consolidated from 4 separate buildings on campus. The new Psychology space provides students with 29 state-of-the-art research laboratories, organized into five major groups based on use patterns and collaboration preferences, allowing for more efficient space use and collaboration.

BrainWorks was designed around five main research suites, MRI, Behavior, Recording & Stimulation, Immersive, and the magnetoencephalography (MEG) suite. The MEG suite houses the world’s first commercial installation of a 64-channel triaxial optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) system.

BrainWorks will give students access to cutting edge research equipment, with space for motion capture, virtual reality, and several types of behavioral research recording. BrainWorks is open to volunteer participants from the region, giving participants the opportunity to aid in the research of “unraveling the mysteries of the brain”.
As technology for studying the human brain while in action continues to evolve, BrainWorks will continually add new tools when they become available.

The Wu Tsai Institute will allow students at Yale University a seat at the table of groundbreaking research and will sustain the University’s position as an innovator in the STEM fields.