At West Campus, collaboration is key
WEST HAVEN — When Yale purchased the West Campus a year and a half ago, the 1.6 million square-foot complex was hailed as offering an unprecedented opportunity for the University to expand its collaborative research programs.
But these physical plans just scratch the surface of what is a deeper phenomenon: the fundamentally changing terrain of scientific discovery. The West Campus is a physical manifestation of a coalescence between academia and industry — a trend that officials at peer institutions and here at Yale say has been taking academic science across the country by storm...
