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Arts & Culture
November 27, 2025
Courtauld to Embark on £82m Campus Project at Somerset House in London

The Courtauld has unveiled an £82m campus redevelopment it is calling a “once-in-a-generation transformation” of its Grade-I listed building, Somerset House, in London. The Stirling prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann will take charge of the four-year project at the teaching and research centre and public gallery, which follows their 2021 revamp of the Courtauld Gallery space. The Courtauld Institute of Art is an independent college of the University of London, focusing on the teaching and research of art history. The overhaul of the Courtauld’s teaching spaces is being paid for by donations, including a record £30m from the Reuben Foundation, and from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, which gave £10m to the gallery in 2020.

Arts & Culture
November 27, 2025
Courtauld Announces Plans for New World Class Campus

Today, the Courtauld is delighted to announce plans to create a new world-class campus at Somerset House in London, a major development which will strengthen our position as a leading global centre for the visual arts.  The Courtauld, founded in 1932 by philanthropist and collector Samuel Courtauld, is an internationally renowned centre for the teaching and research of art history, conservation and curation, and is home to one of the world’s greatest art collections. As the Courtauld approaches its centenary, this next milestone in our history will see a once-in-a-generation transformation of our historic Grade I listed building at Somerset House, creating a flexible, state-of-the-art campus and securing the Courtauld’s legacy for the next 100 years. The new campus project is made possible through the recent visionary gift from the Reuben Foundation and the generous long-standing support of the Blavatnik Family Foundation. Additional transformational support is provided by the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, the Clore Duffield Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, Oak Foundation, The Julia Rausing Trust, Rothschild Foundation, Georgia and David Winter and the Wolfson Foundation. The Courtauld is most grateful to these foundational supporters, alongside others who have already committed to the redevelopment of our home at Somerset House.

Scientific Research
November 25, 2025
Meet the Presenters: A First Look at the Yale Innovators Announced for the 2025 Yale Life Sciences Pitchfest

Yale Ventures is pleased to announce the 33 Yale faculty members who have been selected to present at the Yale Life Science Pitchfest on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Powered by The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, the event will showcase groundbreaking research in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health, with presenters delivering 5-minute pitches followed by 3-minute Q&A sessions to a panel of judges. The event will take place at 101 College Street in New Haven, CT. The annual event serves as the semifinals for The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, an accelerator fund dedicated to advancing the commercialization of applied research and technology in the life sciences. On-the-day cash prizes will total $6,000 and up to an additional $60,000 in in-kind services. Attendees will also have opportunities to meet the presenters directly after each session.

Blavatnik Archive
November 25, 2025
BA20 Anniversary Series Finale

Join us on December 7, 2025 at The Academy Mansion in New York City for the final event of the Blavatnik Archive’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, marking two decades of preserving the everyday artifacts that illuminate overlooked histories. The program begins at 2:00 PM with Refuseniks and Activists: Actions and Consequences, a roundtable featuring Gennady Estraikh, Samuel Finkelman, Shaul Kelner, and Alexandra Zborovsky on the global movement for Soviet Jewish “Refuseniks,” followed at 3:30 PM by Zvi Gitelman’s reflection, How Do We Know What “Really” Happened?, exploring how archives help disentangle fact from distortion. The afternoon concludes with a 4:00 PM anniversary reception with drinks and refreshments.

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