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from weforum.org Yale University’s happiness course is now being taught in high schools Study at a Beijing high school showed that happiness lessons had positive outcomes among students. In the US, ‘happiness professor’ Laurie Santos’s Psychology and the Good Life course will be rolled out to students in low-income high schools. COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted mental health and wellbeing across the world, with young people particularly affected. Lessons in happiness and wellbeing led to…

from thedp.com Penn ranks No. 2 in Forbes’ 2021 list of colleges with most billionaire alumni By Tyler Kliem | May. 30th, 2021 1997 College and Wharton graduate, Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and Space X possess $151 billion in wealth which accounted for over half of Penn’s billionaire total alumni net worth. Credit: Ana Glassman Penn was ranked No. 2 in Forbes’ 2021 World’s Billionaires list of colleges with the most billionaire alumni. The…

from  nhregister.com Bail set at $20 million for man charged in Yale grad student killing May. 20th, 2021  Pan attended his arraignment virtually in a gray shirt and gray shorts Thursday, and at one point appeared to lean forward to better hear Judge Brian Fischer. Prosecutor Stacey Miranda alleged Pan, 30, had been renting an apartment in Alabama under a false name and was found to have been in possession of seven cellphones, seven SIM…

David Swensen, who spent more than three decades managing one of the world’s best performing college endowments as Yale University’s chief investment officer, has died of cancer, the university said.

From WFSB, Channel 3, in Hartford Yale elects first Muslim student body president in school’s 320 year history For the first time in the school’s history, Yale University will have a Muslim Student Body President. Bayan Galal of the class of 2023 ran for Yale College Council President. On Friday, she received more than 56 percent of the votes Bayan is the sister of Channel 3’s reporter Ayah Galal. Bayan spoke with Channel 3 about…

  news.yale.edu Historian Beverly Gage nominated to National Council on the Humanities By Susan Gonzalez|Apr. 30th, 2021 President Joe Biden has nominated Yale historian Beverly Gage ’94 B.A. to the National Council on the Humanities, a board of 26 distinguished private citizens who advise the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the White House announced on April 28. Gage, a professor of history and American studies and the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy, is one of four individuals nominated…

.    news.yale.edu Two Hillhouse buildings earmarked for new Jackson School By Maureen Farrell | Mar. 17th, 2021 Two Yale-owned buildings on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven have been earmarked for the university’s new professional school of global affairs, scheduled to open in fall 2022. The future Jackson School of Global Affairs, now called the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, will occupy T.M. Evans Hall and Steinbach Hall. Located directly across the street from Horchow Hall,…

. from consumer.healthday.com Stem Cell Injections Show Early Promise Against Spinal Cord Injuries Mar. 1st, 2021 These improvements may occur within days or weeks of receiving the stem cell therapy, and can last at least six months, according to the small study. “This is exciting because there are really limited treatment options for patients with spinal cord injury,” said Dr. Griffin Baum, a spine surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not…

. from pionline.com 3 take Harry M. Markowitz Award for insight into machine learning By Rob Kozlowski|Mar. 1st, 2021 Ronen Israel, Bryan Kelly and Tobias Moskowitz were named winners of the $10,000 Harry M. Markowitz Award for their paper, “Can Machines ‘Learn’ Finance?” The award was announced Feb. 25 by the Journal of Investment Management and New Frontier Advisors, co-sponsors of the award, in a joint statement. The paper explores how asset management provides a unique…