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Share Four Yale alumni are among 76 graduate students who have been named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. They are Mez Belo-Osagie ’16, a Ph.D. candidate in political science in Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences; Charlotte Finegold ’17, who is pursuing a J.D. at Stanford Law School; Tony Liu ’20, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering in the School of Engineering; and Elliot Setzer ’20, also pursuing a J.D. at Stanford Law School. The Knight-Hennessy Scholars program cultivates and supports a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of graduate stude...

Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITY The transit workers who kept the city moving through some of its darkest days took a sizable hit during the pandemic, with more than 160 MTA employees dying from COVID-19. Agency data shows that 41% of the more than 70,000 MTA employees have received at least one vaccine dose — about the same rate as city and state residents. But officials concede it won’t be easy to sway vaccine holdouts, even with the MTA offering workers four hours pay to get the shots. “Yeah, nah,” Richard Richards, a 46-year-old subway train operator, told THE CITY. “I don’t t...

By Susan Gonzalez May 7, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Top row: Mez Belo-Osagie, Charlotte Finegold; Bottom-row: Tony Liu, Elliot Setzer Four Yale alumni are among 76 graduate students who have been named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. They are Mez Belo-Osagie ’16, a Ph.D. candidate in political science in Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences; Charlotte Finegold ’17, who is pursuing a J.D. at Stanford Law School; Tony Liu ’20, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering in the School of ...

Cleveland City Council taps Central neighborhood activist to fill Ward 5 council seat (Source: 19 News) By Stephanie Czekalinski | May 3, 2021 at 6:03 PM EDT - Updated May 3 at 6:23 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A neighborhood activist in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood was appointed to fill the Ward 5 council seat left vacant by Phyllis Cleveland’s resignation announced last week. Delores Gray will fill the seat, which represents the Central and Kinsman neighborhoods as well as part of Midtown, Downtown, and the North Broadway and Slavic Village neighborhoods until January 1,...

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