Olivia Woo
Staff Reporter
olivia.woo@yale.edu
Olivia Woo covers Faculty & Academics for the University desk. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she is a first-year in Benjamin Franklin College majoring in Ethics, Politics & Economics.
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OLIVIA WOO
Endowment tax hike poses new risk to fields beyond science, professors say

Research in humanities and the social sciences — which relies on internal funding — could be particularly vulnerable to budget cuts prompted by a potential endowment tax increase, Yale professors said.

May 31, 2025

OLIVIA WOO & GRETA GARRISON
Changes to testing, affirmative action policies reshape undergraduate admissions

This year’s graduating seniors have witnessed a myriad of changes to Yale’s admissions process, from affirmative action to testing policies.

May 17, 2025

OLIVIA WOO & JERRY GAO
“Introduction to Computer Science” can no longer be bypassed by exam

An exam that allowed students entry into CPSC 2230, “Data Systems and Programming Techniques,” without taking CPSC 2010, “Introduction to Computer Science,” will no longer be in use.

April 24, 2025

OLIVIA WOO & ELSPETH YEH
Yale faculty talk funding cuts, urge solidarity

At the panels following the “Hands off Higher Ed” rally, professors across disciplines shared their experience with cuts to federal funding.

April 22, 2025

OLIVIA WOO
On Deference to Authority

In elementary school, I was a teacher’s pet. Not in a snitching way, but in an itching for brownie points way. Jarred by voices and […]

April 17, 2025

OLIVIA WOO
“When you’re in a war, appeasement is surrender”: Stanley talks leaving Yale, resistance at book talk

Philosophy professor Jason Stanley, who is moving to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto this fall, spoke at the New Haven Unitarian Society’s author series.

April 13, 2025

OLIVIA WOO
“America at 250”: Yale history professors confront American identity in one-time-only course

Professors Beverly Gage, Joanne Freeman and David Blight will tackle the entirety of American history in the class dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the independence.

April 10, 2025

ELSPETH YEH & OLIVIA WOO
“The numbers just didn’t make any sense”: Yale professors react to Trump reciprocal tariffs

Yale English professor James Surowiecki was the first to bring media attention to the flawed methodology with which the Trump administration calculated its newest set of tariffs.

April 6, 2025

JERRY GAO & OLIVIA WOO
Dozens of CS students flagged for AI use, urged to self-report or face ExComm

After returning from spring break, students enrolled in CPSC 223 were given 10 days to self-report AI use and face reduced punishment, or risk being referred to the Executive Committee.

April 3, 2025

OLIVIA WOO
WGSS nears end of hiring process for new Transgender Studies professor

The department seeks to fulfill requests from both students and faculty for a specialist in trans studies, continuing its faculty expansion.

March 26, 2025

OLIVIA WOO
Yale undergraduate and GSAS courses adopt four-digit course numbers

In order to accommodate the gradual exhausting of three-digit combinations, the University Registrar’s Office began the renumbering process with fall 2025 course listings.

March 26, 2025