By Timothy Cahill ’16 M.A.R. “You can’t heal an ecosystem without healing yourself,” Jason F. McLennan told an audience at Yale Divinity School on January 31. McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge, was at YDS to give the 2023 Margaret Lindquist Sorensen Lecture. McLennan is an award-winning architect and visionary whose concept of “regenerative”…
YDS launches ‘We Are Called’ campaign for students, faculty, living-building residence hall
October 17, 2022 Yale Divinity School on Friday launched a fundraising campaign aimed at strengthening support for students, academic programs, justice work, and construction of the first major living-building student residence hall in the college and university sector. The “We Are Called” campaign seeks to raise $130 million, of which more than $80 million is…
Bauers honored for transformative support of YDS Living Village
The YDS Dean’s Advisory Council, joined by Yale President Peter Salovey, members of the George and Carol Bauer family, and the design team for the School’s Living Village, gathered in New York on May 5 to celebrate the Bauers for making the unique regenerative building project a reality. Years in the making, the success of…
Varying paths, common commitment: Supporters of the YDS Living Village
By Pressley Peters As the threat of climate change grows more urgent, Yale Divinity School is showing the world one way to confront it. Through the creation of a regenerative student housing complex, one that gives back to the environment more than it takes, YDS is daring the world to take action for a more…
Groundbreaking set for Yale Divinity School’s Living Village
Following fundraising success and project approval by the Yale Corporation, Yale Divinity School is moving ahead with design and construction of its history-making Living Village residential complex. The School will break ground in 2023 on the first phase of the unprecedented off-the-grid student housing.* “After years of planning and seeking support, we are thrilled that…
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