Matt Kristoffersen
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John Goodenough ’44 wins Nobel Prize

He joined the military after Pearl Harbor. After World War II, he graduated with a math degree from Yale. Now, at the age of 97, […]

October 10, 2019

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Profs to weigh in on impeachment

Amid calls to impeach President Donald Trump from Democrats, some Yale historians say that formal impeachment proceedings are justified and more than possible. Three history […]

October 10, 2019

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SMOKE RISES

October 1, 2019

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Yale reports 5.7 percent returns on endowment, breaks $30 billion

Yale posted 5.7 percent returns on its endowment in the fiscal year 2018-19 –– a figure that falls slightly below last year’s above-average returns. According […]

October 1, 2019

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Pierson dean to leave Yale in January

Anthropology professor Riché Barnes will leave her position as dean of Pierson College in January 2020 for a tenured position at Mount Holyoke College, according […]

September 30, 2019

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Takahashi to head Carbon Offset Lab

Until last month, Senior Director of the Yale Investments Office Dean Takahashi ’80 SOM ’83 helped manage one of the largest university endowments in the […]

September 27, 2019

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Hundreds walk out of class to protest climate change

Hundreds of students interrupted their classes at noon Wednesday with alarms, speeches and chants before walking out of seminars and lectures to condemn the Yale […]

September 26, 2019

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Yale Dining wants its dishes back

As students settle in for another semester, tests aren’t the only things they have been taking. According to a Sept. 18 email sent to all […]

September 25, 2019

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Yale won’t accept Sackler donations

Amid revelations about pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma’s role in the national opioid crisis, the University has been quietly severing its ties from the Sackler family […]

September 25, 2019

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Yale-UCL Medicine Poetry Competition continues

From Robert Frost to red blood cells, it’s a surprise to many that medical students can be poets on the side. At the Yale School […]

September 20, 2019

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Students prepare for upcoming climate change walkout

As the date nears for a University-wide walkout on Sept. 25 in support of taking action on climate change and cancelling Puerto Rican debt, student […]

September 19, 2019