Kayla Yup
Staff Reporter
@KelaYub | 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 covers anything from galleries to music. 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
College admissions scandal paints Yale in “Varsity Blues”

From Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavs to former University of Southern California soccer coach Laura Janke, over 50 celebrities and coaches of Division I sports […]

May 22, 2022

KAYLA YUP
COVID-19 research goes viral at Yale: two years of breakthroughs

For Yale researchers, the pandemic meant a daunting checklist of breakthroughs to achieve: dissecting COVID-19’s toll on the body, devising accurate and accessible COVID-19 testing […]

May 22, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Asian girl who turned red watches “Turning Red”

When I was sixteen, I Turned Red. It was a teenager’s cliché attempt at setting the world on fire with red hair dye. I had quit my fast food job, broken up with my boyfriend and decided that the next natural step was to dye my hair red — becoming a visual wildfire. According to my dad, this meant I would next get a tramp stamp.

April 29, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Going to the doctor when you’re Asian in America

Yale community members spoke on the importance of cultural competency in treatment and how Asian American communities may experience and view health care differently.

April 29, 2022

KAYLA YUP
How physicians fall apart: how pandemic-era burnout has struck the nation’s healthcare system

Recent studies on physician burnout deepened understanding of work-life wellbeing and prompted programs to be implemented in Yale’s medical system.

April 18, 2022

KAYLA YUP
It’s in our sewage: tracking “low rumble” of COVID-19 cases

For the past two years, a Yale team has conducted weekly analyses of New Haven’s wastewater as a reliable early-warning measure of COVID-19’s trajectory and surges.

April 11, 2022

KAYLA YUP
“Healing the whole family” through AAPI child-parent theater

CHATogether seeks to address AAPI trauma by cultivating a space for Asian American families to learn, listen and reflect together.

April 7, 2022

KAYLA YUP
“How people fall apart”: Yale faculty discuss the impact of burnout on the brain

Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout could help people accept their resulting behavior and thought patterns as natural responses of the brain.

March 29, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Yale study identifies risk factors for older patients’ disability post-surgery

Fear of losing independence due to potential disability or poor functional outcome post-surgery is a primary concern for older people undergoing major surgery.

March 16, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Yale faculty discuss the impacts of mass incarceration on health

Almost half of the American population has an immediate family member who was formerly or is currently incarcerated.

March 11, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Yale professors confront racial bias in computer graphics

Whose stories get to be told? Yale professors address the racial bias ingrained in the algorithms that depict humans in computer graphics.

March 9, 2022