from USA Today Nathan Chen balances Yale studies with third U.S. figure skating championship By Christine Brennan | Jan. 27th, 2019 DETROIT — This was going to be a year of transition for reigning world champion and Olympic team bronze medalist Nathan Chen. At 19, he was heading across the country to college. Southern California was behind him. Yale beckoned. This was going to be a grand experiment: he was trying to be a full-time…
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/24/texas-endowment-surpasses-yales/ Texas endowment surpasses Yale’s By Lorenzo Arvanitis – Jan. 24th, 2019 Yale no longer has the second largest endowment among institutions of higher education. The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company announced last month that the joint endowment it manages for two schools — University of Texas and Texas A&M University — surged to $30.9 billion, surpassing Yale’s $29.4 billion endowment during the 2018 fiscal year which ended on June 30. Texas’ high returns were largely…
from Yale News Yale, other schools file amicus brief on ‘unlawful presence’ visa change January 17, 2019 Yale University has joined with more than 60 other institutions of higher education in filing an amicus (friend of the court) brief in a case before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina about the Department of Homeland Security’s new policy regarding the calculation of “unlawful presence” for international students. Under the new policy,…
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/17/students-can-now-register-as-non-binary-with-sis/ Students can now register as non-binary with SIS by Jever Mariwala, January 17, 2019, Staff Reporter, Yale Daily News Students can now change their registered gender in the University Student Information System, University Registrar Emily Shandley announced in an email to the Yale community Wednesday. The policy change arrived two months after the Trans Rights Coalition at Yale — a newly formed group of Yale-affiliated organizations — launched a petition calling on University President Peter…
Yale researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s and even restores memories in mice, they report Jan. 2 in the journal Cell Reports.
The binding of amyloid beta peptides to prion proteins triggers a cascade of devasting events in the progression of Alzheimer’s — accumulation of plaques, a destructive immune system response, and damage to synapses.
A Portland, Oregon man — and 2006 graduate of Yale University — has become the first person to traverse Antarctica alone, unassisted in any way by wind or with additional supplies
Colin O’Brady, of Portland, finished the bone-chilling, 930-mile (1,500-kilometer) journey as friends, family and fans tracked the endurance athlete’s progress in real time online. The trek was previously deemed impossible.
ISPS was founded in 1968 to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in the social sciences. Today, the institution sustains a vibrant network of scholars and students interested in shaping public policy. It directly sponsors research by its resident faculty, research fellows, and non-affiliated faculty working in the social sciences in a variety of areas, including health care policy, race and inequality, and political polarization.
AYA to YAA: Yale Alumni Association announces new name, visual identity, and website
Mission: The Yale Alumni Association unites the people and ideas that comprise the lifelong Yale experience. We provide the ongoing support and structure for Yale alumni to pursue interests and activities that positively impact their lives, Yale communities, and the world at large.
Our character, strength, and values come from our diversity and our commitment to a culture of inclusion and equity. We encourage and empower our alumni to create, participate, and lead, in ways that are personally meaningful and valuable to the community.
Our mission is to enhance and renew the lifelong Yale experience for all alumni, whoever they are and wherever they may be. We strive to inspire new ideas, affiliations, friendships, professional fulfillment, and acts of service, around the world.
From Yale Press Release. Beinecke Library acquires papers of humorist David Sedaris By Michael Morand december 10, 2018 The guide that David Sedaris was given when he worked as an elf at Macy’s, an experience that inspired his breakthrough essay “The Santaland Diaries.” (Photo credit: Tubyez Cropper) The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of David Sedaris, noted American humorist, author, and essayist. Sedaris, who grew up in Raleigh, North…
from the dailycaller.com FLASHBACK: That Time George H. W. Bush Met Babe Ruth While Playing Baseball At Yale By Evie Fordham | Politics and Health Care Reporter|Dec. 1st, 2018 Former president George H. W. Bush passed away Friday at the age of 94 after a life full of historic experiences — including meeting famed baseball player Babe Ruth before anyone knew Bush would become the 41st president of the U.S. Bush was captain of the…
You have recently joined a book club.
Before each meeting, one member of the literary collective sends an email to the club secretary offering a few thoughts on the assigned text. This month, it’s your turn to compose the brief review.
A new study suggests that the words you use may depend on whether the club secretary’s name is Emily (“a stereotypically White name,” as the study says) or Lakisha (“a stereotypically Black name”). If you’re a white liberal writing to Emily, you might use words like “melancholy” or “euphoric” to describe the mood of the book, whereas you might trade these terms out for the simpler “sad” or “happy” if you’re corresponding with Lakisha.
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has entertained millions with his Pulitzer Prize-winning strip “Doonesbury,” but he never expected it to be his career when it started 50 years ago, he says in an interview with his wife, “CBS Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley, to be broadcast December 2.
“It was more or less an accidental career,” Trudeau said. “It didn’t seem to me that I was going to be bound to this thing, for any extensive period of my life – and here it is, 50 years later.”
(Update: 1/10/2019: Yale Daily News reports that the plan was illegal and will be abandoned.) Yale University students who want to use the “morning-after pill” soon will have the emergency contraception available via vending machine, the Yale Daily News reports.
The YDN reports that the machine will be “installed in Silliman’s Good Life Center” prior to winter break. The so-called “wellness-to-go” machine also will sell other “over-the-counter medications, condoms” and lubricants, YDN reports.
A major gift from the Poorvu family will establish a permanent endowment for the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, covering the center’s operational costs and supporting its future programming, the University announced on Nov. 19.
The center will now be called the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning in recognition of the gift from William Poorvu ’56 and his wife, Lia Poorvu, and their children Alison Poorvu Jaffe ’81 and Jonathan Poorvu ’84.
This is also an older controversy, having started with a student petition in 2016 and resulting in a faculty vote to make the change in graduation requirements in Spring, 2017. Liberals see it as reform and adding flexibility in course requirements for an English major, allowing more diversity and not forcing a canon of Chaucer, Shakespeare and other “Major English Poets” on students. Conservatives see it as another example of Faculty and Administration caving into…
Three Yale seniors were among the 32 recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships this year. Yale, Duke and Princeton each had three winners. (Full list). This years’ group also set a record for the most women (21) and, for the first time ever, a DACA recipient. The news office at Yale reported: Yale seniors Rayan Alsemeiry, Eren Orbey, and Riley S. Tillitt will head to Oxford University following graduation as Rhodes Scholars representing the United…
