Rachel Siegel
Staff Reporter
rachel.siegel@yale.edu
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RACHEL SIEGEL
Glickson, longtime presidential assistant, leaves post

From Nina Glickson’s ’73 days as a student in Yale’s first four-year cohort of women to her years advising University Presidents Richard Levin and Peter Salovey on student affairs, those who have come to know Glickson strain to imagine campus without her.

November 10, 2014

RACHEL SIEGEL & LEAF ARBUTHNOT
Marching into the Unnamed

A little over 50 years ago, Yale underwent a massive change. Two residential colleges were added to the 10 already in place, two colleges whose […]

November 7, 2014

EMMA PLATOFF & RACHEL SIEGEL
Levin grows Coursera’s presence in China

During his two decades as University president, Richard Levin focused much of his attention on China.

November 6, 2014

RACHEL SIEGEL
Lorimer took home nearly $1.75 million in 2012

Three of Yale’s top administrators each earned over $1.5 million in 2012.

November 5, 2014

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE, RACHEL SIEGEL & VIVIAN WANG
Simons case shows UWC’s weakness, students say

A recent sexual harassment case at the School of Medicine has called into question the underlying framework of the University’s sexual misconduct procedures.

November 4, 2014

LARRY MILSTEIN, RACHEL SIEGEL & VIVIAN WANG
Polak weakened punishment for cardiology chief, Times reports

Yale’s treatment of sexual misconduct cases has again come under fire, this time for its handling of a medical school researcher’s accusations against the School of Medicine’s former cardiology chief Michael Simons.

November 3, 2014

PHOEBE KIMMELMAN & RACHEL SIEGEL
Singapore upholds law criminalizing gay sex

Singapore’s highest court upheld a law — Section 377A — criminalizing sex between men, raising questions regarding whether students at Yale-NUS are free to explore their sexual orientations.

October 31, 2014

RACHEL SIEGEL
Yale receives $10 million for Chinese financial aid

After months of negotiations, the University has received a $10 million donation, earmarked for financial aid, intended to help admitted students from low-incomes Chinese families obtain a Yale education.

October 29, 2014

RACHEL SIEGEL
Investigator probing Colombia prostitution case resigned

A New York Times article published Tuesday reported that the investigator who led an internal review of the Department of Homeland Security following a 2012 prostitution scandal resigned in August after dealing with allegations of his own misconduct.

October 29, 2014

RACHEL SIEGEL & STEPHANIE ROGERS
Ryan Boyko, one of two quarantined graduate students, goes public

The Yale graduate student whose fever spurred panic about the possibility of Ebola in Connecticut just under two weeks ago publicly identified himself Monday night on cable television.

October 28, 2014

PHOEBE KIMMELMAN & RACHEL SIEGEL
With center opening, Yale expands footprint to China

University administrators, deans of professional and associate schools and the major donors unveiled Yale’s first physical footprint in China Sunday evening.

October 27, 2014