2023 - Yale CEA delegates participated in panel discussions, moderated sessions, and showcased emerging research at the Next Gen Student Summit

2023 - Towards developing affordable and robust means of ensuring safe drinking water at the household scale, the cohort is conducting field testing of the SEWR water treatment technology to study water disinfection efficiency against bacterial and viral target pathogens

Work based upon inter-university collaboratoration was presented by Yale School of Public Health PhD Student Elizabeth Lin: "A Novel Method to Explore the Impact of Architectural Design on Biological and Non-Biological Components of the Indoor Exposome"

Yale CEA PhD Candidate Phoebe Mankiewicz is awarded the "Next Generation" 4th prize 2020

North America, rescheduled for August 2022 due to the pandemic.

Yale CEA PhD Candidate Phoebe Mankiewicz presents inter-university, interdisciplinary work: "Exploring a Novel Microbiome Sampling Technique: A Benchmark Experiment Comparing DNA Yield and Community Profiles Between PDMS and Swab Collection Methods" (IMMSA 1.3, 13:20)

Bio-based & biomaterials offer a key opportunity for 

decarbonizing the #buildings and #construction sector and achieving 10 of the 17 UN SDGs. Join UNEP & YaleCEA for an in-depth discussion on #biomaterials! (2022)

Yale CEA PhD Candidate Phoebe Mankiewicz presents an inter-university collaborative paper on behalf of interdisciplinary co-authors: "Informing Indoor Environmental Parameters: Analyzing Measures of Microbial Ecology with Respect to the Characterization of Indoor Air Quality"

2022 - Yale CEA researcher and PhD Candidate Mandi Pretorius presented research in Household Water Security titled "Questioning the Constructed Intangibilities of Water Resources in the Urban Domestic."

2022 - “Soil Sisters: An Intersectoral Material Design Framework for Soil Health” led by Anna Dyson and Mae-ling Lokko (Yale University, School of Architecture), aims to investigate a new paradigm for connecting agricultural waste to large-scale regional material supply chains, in which improving soil nutrition and soil resiliency underpins the design goal of providing cross-sectoral environmental performance through the provision of new biomaterial construction systems. The project will be developed in partnership with Global Mamas in Ghana and Ecolibri in Guatemala.

2021 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture (Yale CEA) today launched an open digital forum aimed at accelerating urban agriculture in cities and delivering huge benefits on everything from food security to climate change.

2021 - Investigating the integration of novel enhanced Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) techniques into a building envelope assembly, towards increasing the viability of on-site renewable energy-based water recuperation

2020 - Using SEVA, the UNCCD incorporated data from the “GGW: Implementation Status and Way Ahead to 2030” Report to highlight the progress made by countries in Africa's Sahel region.

2020 - Yale CEA is taking up residency at the Boston Autodesk Technology Center to further ongoing research development in the area of building-integrated water management, with SEWR.

2019 - Yale CEA and ENEL Foundation are joining forces to research the nexus between water, energy, and material flows in defining transformative ways to address rapid urbanization among other in the African context.

2019 - DRIVENxDESIGN award celebrates innovative and creative design for environmental projects. Consideration given to materials, finishes, sustainability and environmental impact.

2019 - Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UNEP, gave a keynote address at the occasion of a high-level meeting at the Yale Club in New York City, an event organized by Yale CEA and UNEP. 

2019 - Investigating the incorporation of nanophotonics enhanced water purification in the The Solar Enclosure for Water Reuse (SEWR)

2019 - Measuring just about 22-square-meters, an Ecological Living Module was presented last September to get people thinking about decent, affordable housing that limits the overuse of natural resources and helps the battle against destructive climate change.

2019 - UNEP with the Yale CEA and associated partners launched an ecological pavilion showing how innovative biomaterial and environmental systems for housing could meet future demands of urbanization in Africa while minimizing the impact of the environment.

2018 - ELM selected as one of the Winners of the 2018 Residential Architect Design Awards.

2018 - A collaboration between the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, Gray Organschi Architecture, and the U.N., the CLT module was designed and built within a breakneck speed of five weeks.

2018 - UN Environment, Yale University demonstrate how to make modern living sustainable with new eco-housing module.

2017 - It's main gathering space includes a plant wall developed by CASE. This plant wall also filters the air and reduces energy use.

2017 - A new building by SOM keeps New York City safe—and looks good doing it.