Blue Center launches supply chain index
A team of economists led by Jackson School professor Aleh Tsyvinski has launched a tool for monitoring supply chain disruptions, enabling firms and governments to detect abnormalities in the flows of critical products and materials. The research team has gathered hundreds of millions of data records from multiple public and private sources, then applied proprietary machine learning algorithms to that data—both to determine which products should be categorized as critical and to quantify the rate of disruption in the flows of those products. The result is the Blue Center Index of Critical Supply Chain Disruptions, a near-real-time picture of whether critical trade is occurring normally or experiencing disturbances. “Our data has an unprecedented level of granularity,” Tsyvinski said. “We can provide insights at the firm level, and we can do it with only about a two-week latency.”
Yale students present STEM research to Congress
A new student-led initiative brought Yale students to Capitol Hill this spring to brief Congress on their cutting-edge scientific research and push for improving STEM-related policy. In preparation for the trip, the group participated in student-run workshops, policy research, rehearsals, and received faculty feedback on campus throughout the spring semester. Their work resulted in nearly 40 meetings with congressional staffers, who were audience to policy presentations that included funding for space scientific research, the importance of quantum science supply chains, and nuclear power. “There’s never been a more pivotal time for scientists to engage with policymakers, and my colleagues answered the call and rose to the challenge,” said Maxwell Zhu ’26MPP, the lead organizer of the program.
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