Isaac Yu
Staff Reporter
@isaacyu_ | isaac.yu@yale.edu
Isaac Yu was the News' managing editor. He covered transportation and faculty as a reporter and laid out the front page of the weekly print edition. He co-founded the News' Audience desk, which oversees social media and the newsletter. He was a leader of the News' Asian American and low-income affinity groups. Hailing from Garland, Texas, Isaac is a Berkeley College junior majoring in American Studies.
Author Archive
ISAAC YU
Professor Jing Tsu doubles as NBC commentator at Beijing Olympics

The scholar of modern China, who recently published a widely-acclaimed book, brought cultural history and commentary to the Winter Games’ opening ceremony.

February 6, 2022

SARAH COOK, PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH & ISAAC YU
Salovey unveils committee to assess Yale’s gift policy

In an email to faculty, Salovey detailed the charge and make-up of new committee, which will review Yale’s current gift procedures and suggest amendments.

February 6, 2022

LUCY HODGMAN & ISAAC YU
With add/drop here to stay, University looks to improve

Early registration, part of outgoing Yale College Dean Marvin Chun’s legacy, has become a permanent fixture at the College, and soon will be piloted at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

February 4, 2022

MIRANDA JEYARETNAM & ISAAC YU
Professors reflect on time spent at Yale-NUS

In light of the August announcement that the Yale-NUS partnership would be dissolved, New Haven-based faculty who have spent time in Singapore spoke about their experiences teaching and living in another country.

February 3, 2022

PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH & ISAAC YU
Salovey to establish committee to ensure academic freedom in financial gifts

Following months of faculty pressure to protect academic freedom, Salovey will convene a committee to evaluate Yale’s current set of gift policies.

February 2, 2022

ISAAC YU
DOJ weighs China Initiative as Yale faculty sign onto open letter calling for its dissolution

Recent decisions at Harvard and MIT confirmed professors’ concerns about the Justice Department’s campaign against academic espionage. Fresh scrutiny and the possible end of the Initiative has Yale’s advocates looking towards what comes next.

February 1, 2022

ISAAC YU
Faculty committee eyes incoming endowment funds

An ad hoc group of nine faculty members convened by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate is preparing recommendations on how Yale should spend its recent windfall.

January 27, 2022

SANCHITA KEDIA & ISAAC YU
SOM professor’s summit draws 100 university presidents, CEOs

The nation’s academic and business elite rubbed elbows on a Wednesday morning call hosted by the Chief Executive Leadership Institute.

January 27, 2022

ISAAC YU & EVAN GORELICK
Political science, Yale’s second-most popular major, adds requirements and new thesis track

The department will add methodology and intermediate lecture requirements as well as an honors thesis track, with changes going into effect starting with the class of 2026.

January 25, 2022

LEON LUFKIN & ISAAC YU
DATA: Yale’s Most Popular Courses

In the third installment of a project last seen in the spring of 2020, the News analyzed the classes that are the most shopped and trending day to day.

January 24, 2022

ISAAC YU
Jonathan Spence, acclaimed professor of Chinese history, dies at 85

For more than 40 years, Jonathan Spence GRD ’61 GRD ’65 lit up packed lecture halls with vivid stories of emperors and everyday people that […]

January 6, 2022