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from The Daily Beast Purdue Pharma has donated millions of dollars to Yale University including endowing two professorships and a program in the sciences. Mathew Murphy Senior News Editor Published Mar. 09, 2022 12:16PM ET  Yale is severing ties with the Sackler family, the founders of pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, which has donated millions of dollars to the university. “In 2021, the University made a decision to pursue a separation from the Sackler name and has been…

  Editor’s Note: This is a very intelligent, interesting discussion of the Ukraine situation.  Personally, I’m proud that Snyder teaches at Yale.

from Becker’s Hospital Review Cailey Gleeson (Twitter) – Friday, February 25th, 2022 The Yale School of Public Health will transition into a self-supporting, independent school, and its leaders have pledged $150 million of endowment toward the school’s teaching, research and practice, they said Feb. 24. The organizational changes were based on input from the school community through listening sessions, meetings and written correspondence over the past few months, they said. The school has operated as a department within Yale’s…

from The Guardian  as Nathan Chen wins figure skating gold for US and Olympic redemption Chen, 22, holds off Japanese rivals Kagiyama and Uno Puts to rest demons of catastrophic 2018 Olympic debut Bryan Armen Graham at the Capital Indoor Stadium @bryanagraham Thu 10 Feb 2022  Nathan Chen left no doubt, making good on his long-held promise to finally take hold of figure skating’s ultimate prize. The world’s most dominant skater over the past 47 months…

Yale University is pushing back the start of the spring 2022 semester and modifying the semester schedule due to a surge in COVID-19 cases around the world.

from Martha’s Vineyard Times By  Eunki Seonwoo  | December 20, 2021 Clinical trials have not been done, but it does hold promise. Researchers from Yale University have developed a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine against “Borrelia burgdorferi,” commonly known as Lyme disease, according to Yale Daily News. The vaccine has been tested on guinea pigs but has not undergone clinical trials yet, so its effectiveness on humans remains uncertain. The paper was originally published in the medical…

from NBC Connecticut Published December 19, 2021 • Updated on December 20, 2021 at 6:56 am  Yale University officials are encouraging students to leave early for the fall semester as final exams will be online amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The university said they haven’t directly experienced an increase in cases like other universities have, but they want to allow students the option to go home early. “Although the risk of transmission during in-person examinations is small, we want…

from Yale News By Susan Gonzalez | December 10, 2021 Two Yale seniors and two alumni with an interest in fostering peaceful and prosperous relations with China are among the 151 individuals selected as 2023 Schwarzman Scholars for graduate study in China. Seniors Jasper Boers and Sharmaine Koh Mingli and alumni Liam Arnade-Colwill ’19 and William Ge ’17 were chosen from 3,000 applicants for the prestigious fellowships, which support graduate study for a master’s degree…

from Yale Daily News Four Yale seniors will cross the Atlantic next fall for graduate studies at the University of Oxford as part of the Rhodes Scholarship. JORDAN FITZGERALD  NOV 28, 2021   Mary Orsak ’22 hid in the Pierson College seminar room on Nov. 20, shielding herself from the Yale-Harvard game festivities while she found out which applicants received this cycle’s prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She won. Orsak and three other Yalies — Liam Elkind…