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…

Yale and Columbia played the first intetcollegiate golf match. Recently, they had a rematch to celebrate the 125th anniversary.

from Yale Daily News Yale’s endowment reaches $42.3 billion, posting highest rate of return since 2000 The endowment had a rate of return of 40.2 percent, on par with peer institutions and marking a significant increase from Yale’s endowment growth in recent years ZHEMIN SHAO 3:36 PM, OCT 14, 2021 STAFF REPORTER   Courtesy of Amay Tewari   The University’s endowment soared to $42.3 billion during the 2021 fiscal year, the Yale Investments Office announced Thursday…