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Dec 20, 2024 · At Yale, 2024 was a year of transformation and renewal. The university welcomed a new president, Maurie McInnis, an accomplished scholar, university leader, and alumna who first arrived on campus as a graduate student in 1989, and celebrated her predecessor, Peter Salovey, who returned to the faculty full-time after 11 years as Yale’s leader.

Nov 17, 2021 · “Yale and New Haven have a bond that has been tested by time and strengthened by shared purpose,” Salovey said. “As a New Haven anchor institution and the city’s largest employer, the university is proud to do its part in building a community that creates sustained inclusive growth across every neighborhood in the city.

Oct 27, 2022 · Yale Provost Scott Strobel in a new message provided updates on major building projects underway or planned campus-wide that will help Yale advance its academic mission, including a recently completed transformation of the Humanities Quadrangle (left), which will be officially dedicated on Oct. 27; a historic renovation of the Yale Peabody Museum (center, top); a new Living Village graduate ...

Jan 10, 2024 · This growth, along with a robust financial aid budget, expanded outreach and targeted communications that highlight affordability, and a ‘whole-person’ admissions process that considers potential broadly, has brought measurable changes in the makeup of the student body: with the increase in the number of matriculated students, the number of first-year students eligible for Federal Pell ...

2 days ago · Dr. Nancy J. Brown, the Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of Medicine and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale, has been reappointed for a second term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine (YSM), President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Strobel announced today.Her second five-year term begins July 1. The reappointment recognizes Brown’s success over the past five years in ...

Dec 23, 2021 · Yale University will delay the start of its spring semester by one week and move the first two weeks of classes online for students in Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), part of an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 following the winter recess, which began Wednesday afternoon.Spring break will be shortened by one week.

Apr 20, 2021 · A home for the humanities. The Humanities Quadrangle, a reinvention of the landmark Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), provides a new campus headquarters for the study of the human world and society.When its doors reopen, the building — an exemplar of James Gamble Rogers’s 1889 B.A. collegiate gothic architecture — will house 15 academic departments and the Whitney Humanities Center as well ...

Jan 19, 2021 · Meanwhile, the virus was on the move in the United States. As Yale leaders saw the numbers of positive COVID-19 cases rise in the South in July and August, they revised Yale’s planned COVID-19 testing protocols for returning students: There would be both pre-arrival and at-arrival asymptomatic testing for students, as well as ongoing screening of asymptomatic individuals throughout the semester.

Jan 20, 2022 · Yale President Peter Salovey and fellow Yale leaders answered student questions about COVID-19’s impact on the spring semester at a Jan. 20 virtual town hall, emphasizing a theme: thoughtful actions now can minimize disruptions in the coming months.. In December, public health concerns stemming from the omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic led Yale to delay the start of the spring semester ...