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JULIA BIALEK & ROSE HOROWITCH
University announces masking, testing and other public health measures for fall semester

As more than 80 percent of Yale community members have documented full vaccination and the Delta variant leads to mushrooming COVID-19 case counts nationally and in New Haven, the University is updating its public health protocols.

August 9, 2021

Cassidy Arrington
ROSE HOROWITCH
University relaxes mask and distancing requirements for fully vaccinated individuals

With low rates of COVID-19 transmission at Yale and the surrounding area, the University will get rid of most preventative protocols for fully vaccinated community members.

July 5, 2021

An image of a vial of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
JULIA BROWN & ROSE HOROWITCH
Kymberly Pinder appointed Dean of the Yale School of Art

Pinder, a scholar of race, representation and murals, will assume the position on July 1.

June 5, 2021

Pinder smiles in a headshot
ROSE HOROWITCH
David A. Thomas ’78 GRD ’86 to serve as Yale’s newest Alumni Fellow

Thomas defeated Victor Ashe ’67, a petition candidate who ran on a platform of increased transparency in the election process.

May 25, 2021

ROSE HOROWITCH
Outraged and offended: Corporation cuts petition process, alumni react

The process, which has been in place since 1929, was increasingly used to push Yale for change.

May 25, 2021

A boardroom
ROSE HOROWITCH
Three petition candidates announce bid for Yale Corporation seat

Three candidates — Andrew Lipka ’78, Gail Lavielle GRD ’81 and Zoraya Hightower ENV ’16 — will run for the alumni fellow position in the 2022 election.

May 24, 2021

Headshots of the three candidates
JULIA BROWN & ROSE HOROWITCH
Yale confers 3,395 degrees at 320th Commencement

Yale College graduates marched onto Old Campus to receive their degrees, while family and friends watched the ceremony online. In a separate address, Salovey spoke to the gifts teachers give and to how the graduates could repay their educators.

May 24, 2021

Yale College grads gather on Old Campus
MADISON HAHAMY & ZAPORAH PRICE
Class Day takes place virtually during hybrid commencement week

The Sunday event featured four speakers from the class of 2021 alongside Broadway and film composer Robert Lopez ’97.

May 23, 2021

ROSE HOROWITCH
Yale mandates vaccinations for faculty, staff and postdoctoral trainees

The University navigates legal and public health considerations to require vaccination by Aug. 1.

May 14, 2021

The front of Sterling Library from Cross Campus.
JULIA BROWN & MADISON HAHAMY
Qinxuan Pan arrested for murder of Kevin Jiang

Qinxuan Pan, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was arrested in Alabama Friday morning for the murder of Kevin Jiang ENV ’22.

May 14, 2021

A headshot of Pan
AMELIA DAVIDSON
Yale student groups may act as intervenors in affirmative action case

Hillel Student Board members say that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is building a coalition of Yale student groups to intervene in Students For Fair Admissions’ lawsuit regarding Yale’s affirmative action practices. So far, Yale Hillel and the Black Student Alliance at Yale plan to get involved.

May 11, 2021