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April 19, 2021 75 NEW HAVEN (AP) — Yale University has joined a growing list of colleges and universities that will require students to received the COVID-19 vaccine before returning in the fall. University President Peter Salovey and Provost Scott Strobel made the announcement Monday in an email to the Yale community, urging students to get inoculated as soon as possible. “Although the course of the COVID-19 pandemic over the coming months remains uncertain, vaccination is the strongest tool for preventing transmission of the virus,” the officials wrote. “There is abundant evidence o...

Connecticut to lift most mandates on businesses, outdoors SUSAN HAIGH and PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press April 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The announcement came as the state surpassed 8,000 COVID-associated deaths. Beginning May 1, outdoor restrictions will be lifted on businesses, such as mask-wearing when social distancing can't be observed. Also, the rule that alcohol can't be served without food will be lifted, essentially allowing outdoor bar service. Additionally, table seating outdoors will no longer be limited to eight people and business curfews will be moved back from 11 p.m. t...

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 principles establish a framework through which Yale can encourage fossil fuel producers to adopt more su...

By Mark Dunn April 6, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this (Photo credit: Jack Devlin ’21) Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions has completed its review of first-year applications and offered admission to 2,169 of the 46,905 students who applied for the Class of 2025. The newly admitted applicants will be joined by an additional 336 students who were admitted during the 2019-2020 admissions cycle but opted to postpone their matriculation for one year. Yale College received a record number of applications — an in...

February 16, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this A view to the north from 100 College St., the future home of the Wu Tsai Institute. (Photo: Dan Renzetti) The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams. It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike. Through it, we perceive, we wonder, we question: Why? How? What if? Researchers at Yale University have been studying the brain for generations. Now, a new and historic p...