from CNBC. The most influential endowment manager just jumped into crypto with bets on two Silicon Valley funds Swensen, who manages Yale’s $29.4 billion endowment, has invested in two funds dedicated to cryptocurrencies, sources tell CNBC. The funds are run by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm, which was started by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang. The investment marks a much-needed vote of confidence for the volatile asset class. Swensen started…

Archives at Yale, a new software tool launched in early September, allows students, faculty, and other researchers to search more precisely across and within more than 5,000 collections held by 10 Yale libraries and museums. The new tool is based on a widely used open-source web application — which means that Yale’s investment in developing it will benefit other libraries and museums around the world. “Yale’s collections are unusually large and diverse, with unique information…

U.S. Education and Justice Departments are investigating. University says its practices are legal. https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/09/27/us-reveals-investigation-alleged-anti-asian-bias-yale By Scott Jaschik September 27, 2018 The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice revealed Wednesday that they are conducting an investigation into whether Yale University discriminates against Asian American applicants. The investigation comes as a lawsuit making similar claims against Harvard University — and backed by the Justice Department — is about to go to trial. Yale, in a statement sent to students and faculty members,…

By Eren Orbey September 25, 2018   Last week, after Christine Blasey Ford went public with an allegation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party in high school, the Yale Daily News published an old photograph that directed scrutiny to the Supreme Court nominee’s college years. In the black-and-white image, two brothers of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity march across Yale’s campus in an initiation rite, one of them carrying a flag fashioned…

By Jim Shelton September 5, 2018 Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the “teleportation” of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand. The findings appear online Sept. 5 in the journal Nature. The key principle behind this new work is quantum teleportation, a unique feature of quantum mechanics that has previously been used to transmit unknown quantum states between two parties without…

(By David Gelernter.   Mr. Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Dittach LLC.) https://www.wsj.com/articles/ten-things-they-didnt-tell-you-at-freshman-orientation-1536010557 Learn how to be a good American, challenge your teachers, study a language, and tackle hard subjects. By David Gelernter Sept. 3, 2018 5:35 p.m. ET Welcome to Yale. Please disregard what you’ve been told so far, and follow these instructions. 1. Understand that you’re here to learn how to be good citizens of the…