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ROSE HOROWITCH
Raimondo’s resignation leaves vacant Yale Corporation seat

The Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, must fill a vacancy left by Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo LAW ’98 this year. In early […]

February 10, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY
Catfishing, virality and spats: The Yale professors of Twitter

One day, Scott Shapiro LAW ’90, professor of law and philosophy, was walking home from a convenience store when he saw a bird smash into […]

February 10, 2021

JULIA BIALEK & AMELIA DAVIDSON
Breaking down Yale class sizes after pandemic prompted increase in student leaves

In a year characterized by increased leaves of absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of student life, data shared by the University Registrar’s Office […]

February 10, 2021

TALAT AMAN, JULIA BROWN & MADISON HAHAMY
Police name person of interest in investigation of Kevin Jiang’s ENV ’22 shooting death

In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, New Haven Police Department Chief Otoniel Reyes named 29-year-old Qinxuan Pan as a person of interest in regard […]

February 10, 2021

A headshot of Pan
WEI-TING SHIH
Jackson Institute hosts talk about post-Trump US policy

On Tuesday, the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs hosted a discussion on the impact of Donald Trump’s presidency on the American socio-political landscape and delved […]

February 10, 2021

AMELIA DAVIDSON
After their historical accounts were anonymized, members of first cohort of women at Yale speak out

As part of the celebration of 50 years of coeducation at Yale College, members of the “first women at Yale” cohort — those who graduated […]

February 10, 2021

TALAT AMAN, JULIA BROWN & MADISON HAHAMY
Kevin Jiang’s shooting death believed to be a targeted attack

Kevin Jiang ENV ’22 was shot and killed Saturday night in what the police are now saying was a targeted attack.  According to the New […]

February 10, 2021

Up close shot of the side of a New Haven police car.
ROSE HOROWITCH
Funding the sciences at Yale: In the University’s quest to catch up its peers, what is the cost?

Though Yale initially froze faculty searches and salaries and is budgeting a $27 million operating deficit for the 2021 fiscal year, which ends on June […]

February 10, 2021

JULIA BIALEK
YCC pilots new incubator to support student entrepreneurs

This semester, the Yale College Council is spearheading a new program dedicated to serving the needs of undergraduate entrepreneurs. The program, called the YCC Incubator, […]

February 10, 2021

JULIA BROWN
YLS partners with alum’s law firm in new social justice foundation

John Hueston LAW ’91 and his law firm, Hueston Hennigan LLP, have launched a new foundation that will allow graduates of the Yale Law School […]

February 9, 2021

ROSE HOROWITCH
Administrators weigh options for a “new normal” fall term, predict all students will return to campus

Yale administrators are drawing up multiple contingency plans for the fall 2021 semester as they begin to look past a year thrown in flux by […]

February 9, 2021