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  DescriptionReviews A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett’s and Oxford’s.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition)…

from Popular Science Platforms like Twitter may amplify engrained human behaviors, but a future filled with healthy discourse and productive conversations isn’t impossible. BY CHARLOTTE HU | UPDATED AUG 13, 2021 To no one’s surprise, scientists from Yale University found that social media platforms like Twitter amplify our collective moral outrage. Additionally, they found that it was mostly politically moderate users who learned to be more outraged over time. Their findings are detailed in a new study in Science…

from the New Haven Register Yale University PhD student Matthew Amodio has become an eight-day returning champion on television quiz show, “Jeopardy!” earning $52,000 on Tuesday night’s episode, and defeated Christina Leone of East Hartford. In his winning streak, Amodio has won $362,400. Heading into the Final Jeopardy! round, Amodio’s earnings totaled $36,000 while Leone’s were $9,600. Both Amodio and Leone answered the final question correctly — Leone’s wager was enough for her to finish in second…

from NH Register With over a dozen athletes heading to Tokyo, Yale remains a consistent college presence in the Olympics Maggie Vanoni July 16, 2021 With 16 athletes scheduled to compete in the Tokyo Olympics that have Yale ties, and three more to potentially receive confirmation later this month, the university will continue its presence as one of the top schools consistently represented at the Olympics. Yale’s 2021 Olympic athletes, which include 11 in the…

Yale recognized for fast growth of lower-income student enrollment The American Talent Initiative, a national alliance that aims to increase the number of lower-income students enrolled in colleges and universities, has highlighted Yale as a leader in achieving this goal. Since 2015, the percentage of Yale students eligible for Pell Grants grew by 55%.

from nytimes.com Yale Drama Goes Tuition-Free With $150 Million Gift From David Geffen By Michael Paulson|Jun. 30th, 2021 The $150 million gift will allow Yale School of Drama to stop charging tuition.Credit…Thomas McDonald for The New York Times June 30, 2021 The billionaire David Geffen is giving $150 million to Yale School of Drama, allowing one of the nation’s most prestigious programs to stop charging tuition. The graduate school, which enrolls about 200 students in programs that…

Along the way, they said, the university expects the campus to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035, or “zero” emissions after offsets and other campus reductions in emissions are factored in.

Salovey and Strobel also shared an initial list of fossil fuel companies now ineligible for investment by the Yale endowment in accordance with recently adopted ethical investing principles. And they provided an update on the Planetary Solutions Project, an ambitious campus-wide initiative launched in December 2020 that is bringing the full weight of Yale’s expertise and resources to bear on pressing global crises.

A group of Yale University students and alumni is calling on the Yale Corporation, the university’s governing board, to reinstate a petition process through which aspiring trustees could become candidates for open board seats.

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from bizjournals.com Yale University stirs dissent on campus, among alumni with abrupt change to board elections Jun. 3rd, 2021 Zoraya Hightower opened an email May 24 to disappointment: Her campaign to secure a seat on Yale University’s board of trustees as an alumni fellow had ended in defeat. “I am sorry to have to deliver this news,” read the email from a staffer in Yale’s general counsel office. About 40 minutes later, another email to Yale…

Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller is worried a bubble is forming in some of the market’s hottest trades.

He’s notably concerned about housing, stocks and cryptocurrencies, where he sees a “Wild West” mentality among investors.

“I haven’t done that in print. I’ve been saying that,” the Yale University professor told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Friday.

Even though the record run in stocks and cryptos has been taking a break over the past couple of weeks, Shiller is worried. He’s particularly uneasy about the latest housing boom.

“In real terms, the home prices have never

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…