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Robert Blocker, who has helped transform the Yale School of Music during nearly three decades as the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean, will retire on Aug. 31, 2023.

Robert Blocker, who has helped transform the Yale School of Music during nearly three decades as the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean, will retire on Aug. 31, 2023.

Robert Blocker, who has helped transform the Yale School of Music during nearly three decades as the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean, will retire on Aug. 31, 2023.

On April 10, family, friends, former students, and colleagues gathered in Woolsey Hall to celebrate the legacy of Yale’s longtime chief investment officer.

Yale rolls out 5 principles for endowment on fossil-fuel investing Getty Images Yale Universitys board of trustees approved a new set of five principles to guide decisions regarding potential fossil-fuel divestment in its $31.2 billion endowment. The principles, applicable to fossil-fuel producers and companies, state that they should neither explore for, produce, or supply fossil fuels that result in high greenhouse gas emissions when there are feasible alternatives; should operate in a manner...

Date Time New principles regarding fossil fuels to guide Yale’s endowment The Yale Board of Trustees last week approved a new set of ethical investment principles (PDF) to guide the university’s decisions concerning companies producing fossil fuels. The five principles, recommended by an expert faculty panel appointed in October by President Peter Salovey, create new standards for the activities, behaviors, and characteristics of fossil fuel companies that would warrant divestment. The prin...