Kayla Yup
Staff Reporter
KaylaYup2025@gmail.com
Kayla Yup covers Science & Social Justice and the Yale New Haven Health System for the SciTech desk. For the Arts desk, she is covering the Humanities. With an interest in the intersections of the humanities and STEM, she is majoring in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and History of Science, Medicine & Public Health as a Global Health Scholar.
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KAYLA YUP
What AI art means for society, according to Yale experts

Will AI art elevate human creativity? Will AI be a tool or a replacement for artists? Is AI art, art? Yale experts weigh in.

January 23, 2023

KAYLA YUP & BRIAN ZHANG
Students debut arts celebration at Tsai City

This Friday, 68 undergraduate artists will showcase their work at the Yale Visual Artists Collective’s debut showcase with Tsai City. Come for art, artists, jazz and French-Asian pastries.

December 9, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Nine-year-old girl tours Yale labs after neighbor reported her to police for spraying lanternflies

A neighbor’s call to the police on a young Black girl for spraying lanternflies sparked discourse around the dangers of adultifying Black children and weaponizing the police. A Yale tour led by Black female scientists sought to support the little girl in her love for science.

November 29, 2022

KAYLA YUP
“We are at capacity”: RSV surges nationwide, hitting Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital at record volumes

Respiratory syncytial virus has burdened pediatric emergency rooms and caused severe disease in an unusual number of infants, leading the CDC to issue a health advisory.

November 17, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Theft of two sculptures from School of Art exhibit raises security concerns

Two student works were stolen from the School of Art’s first year MFA exhibition, prompting concerns about the security of work exhibited in the School of Art’s spaces and about the lack of insurance offered to students. The culprit remains at large.

November 16, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Yale public health students respond to water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi

Students visited the southern city to bridge the gap between academia and activism, performing wellness checks and handing out water after 150,000 residents lost access to drinkable water.

November 13, 2022

KAYLA YUP & ANJALI MANGLA
Health advocates express concern over YNHHS hospital consolidation

Yale-New Haven Health system is seeking state approval to acquire three new hospitals in northern and central Connecticut to access novel patient populations in Waterbury, Manchester and Rockville. The system hopes to level the playing field with its largest state competitors like Hartford Healthcare.

November 11, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Behind an empty pedestal: YUAG controversy sparks discourse on Indigenous art

A dispute over purported censorship of a recent exhibit triggered a broader discussion over how museums should handle Indigenous art, pushing the Yale University Art Gallery to adopt advisory groups and new guidelines.

October 24, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Erasure of Indigenous voices: behind Fazal Sheikh’s “Exposures”

A new, almost-cancelled exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery both documents and produces conversations about how Indigenous communities are harmed by resource extraction, displacement and environmental racism.

October 24, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Former School of Medicine administrator sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing $40 million from the University

Jamie Petrone-Codrington, former lead administrator of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine, was sentenced to nine years in prison for fraud and tax offenses connected to her theft of $40 million from the department.

October 18, 2022

KAYLA YUP & WILLIAM PORAYOUW
Yale to pay DOJ $308k following fertility clinic allegations, dozens of victims move to sue

Yale entered into a civil settlement agreement with the DOJ to resolve allegations of violations of the Controlled Substances Act. Meanwhile, 65 women have moved forward with a lawsuit against Yale.

October 17, 2022