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Share Present and future students at Yale University’s drama school will no longer pay tuition, thanks to a landmark $150 million gift from entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen, the university announced today. The donation — the largest on record in the history of American theater — makes the school the only institution of its kind to eliminate tuition for all degree and certificate students, removing financial barriers to access. David Geffen. Photo by Bruce Weber. “...

Skip to main content Amid Amy Chua controversy, Yale Law professors say it was tough, but they kept to COVID rules FacebookTwitterEmail NEW HAVEN — You could call them the “Brillies.” They likely would answer, as that is the special name for a small group of about 15 Yale Law School students who are assigned during their first-year fall semester to Yale law professor Lea Brilmayer. And the law school’s small groups have gotten a lot of publicity lately because of Professor Amy Chua. Chu...

Share In 2005, Yale became one of the world’s first universities to commit to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, pledging that by 2020 it would reduce its carbon output 43% compared with that year’s emissions. Last year Yale reached this goal despite significant growth in campus population and square footage in the intervening time. Now university leaders are targeting an even faster pace of change. On Thursday, Yale pledged to achieve zero actual carbon emissions — that is, driving c...

Share Jon Soderstrom, who has led Yale University’s Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) since 1996, will step down as managing director on June 30. Serving as both an incubator for Yale innovators and a driver of regional economic development, OCR’s main charge is to assist in translating Yale research into societally beneficial products and services. Soderstrom will move into a new position as strategic advisor for technology transfer and commercialization in the Office of the Provost. ...

In 2005, Yale became one of the world’s first universities to commit to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, pledging that by 2020 it would reduce its carbon output 43% compared with that year’s emissions. Last year Yale reached this goal despite s

June 24, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Photo by Dan Renzetti In 2005, Yale became one of the world’s first universities to commit to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, pledging that by 2020 it would reduce its carbon output 43% compared with that year’s emissions. Last year Yale reached this goal despite significant growth in campus population and square footage in the intervening time. Now university leaders ...

Unmasked edition: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Mobile: A Carnival cruise ship docked in the port city Friday so crew members could be vaccinated against COVID-19. With a brass band playing on the wharf, the Carnival Sensation docked at the Mobile Cruise Terminal, where staff members from USA Health planned to go on board to provide first doses for 110 crew members. The ship will return in three weeks for second doses, the city said in a statemen...

“Breakthrough cases,” in which a vaccinated person contracts COVID-19, have occurred among 161 of the 250,000-plus fully-vaccinated Vermonters, the Vermont Department of Health has reported. That translates to one in