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Outbreak elevates Yale COVID alert level, quarantines students
ByAdmin November 7, 2020April 22, 2023
from New Haven Register Outbreak elevates Yale COVID alert level, quarantines students By Jim Shay, Nov. 7th, 2020 NEW HAVEN — Students in three Yale University residential colleges have been asked to quarantine and sports activities have been suspended for the weekend after a surge in COVID-19 cases, school officials said. On Friday, Yale also raised its COVID-alert status from yellow to orange. The change in status means no visitors are allowed on campus, travel is strongly discouraged,…
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Op-Ed
Pine Brook’s Howard Newman Defends ‘Fracking for Export’
ByAdmin November 4, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is an interview from The Wall Street Journal.
Howard Newman, co-founder of private-equity firm Pine Brook, believes the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election should pursue a bigger role for the U.S. in the global fight against climate change and that the nation’s abundant natural-gas supply can be a means to that end.
Mr. Newman spoke to WSJ Pro about some of the energy policies he’d like to see the next administration adopt.
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Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity
ByAdmin October 26, 2020April 22, 2023
wsj.com Yale’s David Swensen Puts Money Managers on Notice About Diversity By Juliet Chung Close Juliet Chung Biography Juliet.Chung@wsj.com and Dawn Lim The national discussion over race has resulted in an accelerated push for diversity on boards and in companies across the U.S. It has also prompted some investors to look at investment management, one of the least diverse fields on Wall Street. A 2019 study commissioned by the Knight Foundation found women- and minority-owned firms…
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Potpourri
Where Is The First Place You’ll Travel?
ByAdmin October 2, 2020August 31, 2023
Where is the first place you’ll travel once air travel is totally unrestricted? Why?
Go down to the “Comments” area at the bottom of this post and list the destination and why you chose it. And check out where your friends are heading post-pandemic!
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How Yale, the country’s best college golf course, is back from the dead
ByAdmin September 30, 2020April 22, 2023
from GolfWorld How Yale, the country’s best college golf course, is back from the dead By Joel Beall September 30, 2020 He walked off the course as if witnessing a resurrection. There was a glance back at the green and down the fairway, as to confirm what happened had happened. “It’s miraculous, really,” Robert Massimilian says. “I came out to see if it was still alive. After everything that’s been said, I didn’t know what…
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How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
ByAdmin September 27, 2020April 22, 2023
from the atlantic.com How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition By Daniel Markovits Aug. 19th, 2019 . Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. Updated at 4:38 p.m. ET on September 4, 2019. In the summer of 1987, I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and headed northeast to attend Yale. I then spent nearly 15 years studying at various universities—the London School of Economics, the…
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In Memoriam
John Randolph Elliott, August 31, 2020
ByAdmin August 31, 2020April 26, 2024
from: Erie Times News The Rev. John Randolph Elliott (“Randy”) was an extraordinary, ordinary man. Randy will be long remembered as a man of prayer with deep faith, warm spirit, unwavering integrity, rigorous self-discipline, large intellect, and contagious laughter most often heard with a big family that he loved and gave him great joy—a family eternally grateful for his presence in their lives. Indeed, he lived with eternity in his heart, and entered his heavenly…
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In Memoriam
David Harrison Idol II, August 22, 2020
ByAdmin August 22, 2020April 26, 2024
David Harrison Idol II died Saturday, August 22, 2020 at his home on Hillcrest Dr. in High Point. He was 74 years old. David was born May 20, 1946 in High Point to Percy Cornelius Idol and Lillian Small Idol. He was educated at Woodberry Forest School, King’s College, Taunton, and Yale University, and he received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began his law career…
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FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale
ByAdmin August 16, 2020April 22, 2023
from USA Today FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale in partnership with the NBA, NBPA Jeff Zillgitt USA TODAY A saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by researchers at Yale in partnership and funding from the NBA and National Basketball Players Association was approved on Saturday for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Called SalivaDirect, the test uses saliva samples to detect COVID-19. SalivaDirect is non-invasive and requires just a small sample, reducing…
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Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process
ByAdmin August 14, 2020April 22, 2023
from the New York Times Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process The Trump administration said the university discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants. Yale defended its practices and vowed to maintain them. by Anemona Hartocollis, Aug. 13, 2020 The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of violating federal civil rights law by discriminating against Asian-American and white applicants, an escalation of the Trump administration’s moves against race-based admissions policies at elite…
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Harvard, Yale enrollments down 20 percent after moving online
ByAdmin August 7, 2020April 22, 2023
from Campus Reform by Ben Zeisloft Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent on Aug 06, 2020 at 10:30 AM EDT One-fifth of Yale and Harvard students will not enroll for the fall semester. Universities across the United States are anticipating drops in enrollment. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 20 percent of Harvard and Yale University students will not re-enroll at the Ivy League schools this fall. An email sent to Harvard students from Dean of the Faculty of Arts…
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Deeper breathing can help reduce stress among college-goers, Yale researchers say
ByAdmin August 1, 2020April 22, 2023
While institutions are being forced to put in place mental health awareness protocols, advisories, counselling centres and have full-time psychiatrists on campus, among other measures, a new study from researchers at Yale University has backed the multiple benefits of breath work in increasing mental well-being among students, in a short period of time.
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Books
New Book: Beyond The 4^th Door
ByAdmin August 1, 2020April 22, 2023
Richard Seltzer is accelerating his output of novels, having published Parallel Lives only 6 months ago. (See our review of it — Richard Seltzer’s New Novel: Parallel Lives.). Rumor has it that he has two more novels accepted for publication and another under contract. Can you say “prolific?”
Beyond The 4th Door is now available on Amazon, which describes the novel thusly:
Without knowing why or how, two college students wake up 50 years older than they were when they went to sleep and with no memo […]
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How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic
ByAdmin July 17, 2020April 22, 2023
How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic Craig McFarland was accepted by all eight Ivy League schools. At first he committed to Yale, but the ongoing disruptions caused by the coronavirus caused him to change his plans. By Johnny Diaz July 17, 2020, When he was applying to colleges last year, Craig McFarland of Jacksonville, Fla., aimed high and wide. He received 17 acceptance letters in all, including one from each of the…
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Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’
ByAdmin July 10, 2020April 22, 2023
from fox5dc.com Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’ Jun. 10th, 2020 NEW HAVEN, Conn. – As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have swept across the country following the death of George Floyd, many have been encouraged to educate themselves on the history of the black experience in the U.S. as a way to help contextualize recent events. Yale University offers a free course, called “African American History: From Emancipation…
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Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January
ByAdmin July 9, 2020April 22, 2023
from nytimes.com Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January By Billy Witz, Jul. 8th, 2020 The league’s decision could be influential for other university presidents as they consider how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. It is the first Division I conference to suspend football for the fall. The Ivy League presidents placed all sports on hold Wednesday until at least January, making it the first Division I conference that will not play football as…
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