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Yale University officials announced Friday that all staff will be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The decision follows the university’s announcement in April that all undergraduate, graduate and professional studies students must also be vaccinated. All faculty, staff and postdoctoral and postgraduate trainees will have to get vaccinated under this new mandate. Yale officials said their decision is...

Yale’s chief investment officer, David Swensen, hailed by the school as revolutionizing “the landscape of institutional investing,” died Wednesday at 67, the school’s president announced. Swensen led the university’s investment office since 1985, following work at Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers, according to a university announcement. Swensen is credited with developing the “Yale Model” of institutional investing, which became...

A vigil was held in New Haven this evening to honor the victims of police brutality and violence.

A man wanted for questioning in connection to the death of a Yale graduate student this month stole a car on the day of the killing before driving to Connecticut, according to a police report. The report filed by police in Mansfield, Massachusetts, alleged Qinxuan Pan took a blue GMC Terrain for a test drive from a dealership on Feb….

A week after he was killed, a Yale graduate student is being laid to rest in a private service Saturday afternoon. On February 6th, Kevin Jiang was shot and killed in New Haven. Police and firefighters were called to Lawrence Street between Nicoll and Nash streets after getting multiple 911 calls of gunfire and a person shot. Authorities said, 26-year-old…

The U.S. Marshals Service said Qinxuan Pan, wanted for questioning in connection to the death of Yale grad student Kevin Jiang, was spotted in Georgia on Thursday morning.

New Haven police named a Massachusetts man as a person of interest in Saturday’s shooting death of Yale grad student Kevin Jiang.

New Haven police named a Massachusetts man as a person of interest in Saturday’s shooting death of Yale grad student Kevin Jiang.

New Haven police have identified a person of interest in the shooting death of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang.

New Haven police said Monday a Yale grad student who was shot and killed over the weekend may have been targeted.

Editor’s Note: Yale University responded to NBC Connecticut’s request for a comment on our story after the story was published. In part, Yale said: “Yale spends over $700 million annually directly on New Haven. This includes compensation to New Haven residents who work at the university and many programs and initiatives that we support throughout the city. Yale University’s...

Mayor Justin Elicker said 60% of his city’s total real estate is tax-exempt, at a value of $8.5 billion. Almost half of that, he said, belongs to Yale University.

Yale physician Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, whom President-elect Joe Biden selected to lead his task force on COVID-19 equity, on Tuesday said the heavy hit Black and Latinx Americans have taken from the virus is not a coincidence. “On this team, you will be heard, you will be counted and you will be valued,” Nunez-Smith said, referring to marginalized groups.

“In general, yes, employers are able to mandate the vaccine when it becomes available with, of course, a bunch of caveats.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci will be the 2021 Yale School of Public Health commencement speaker, the school announced on Twitter Friday. No further details have been provided on the event.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Thursday that even though a vaccine was imminent, Americans needed to double down on public health measures. “We’re not talking about shutting down the country,” he said. “We’re not talking about shutting down. We’re talking about intensifying the simple public health measures that we all talk about, mask...

Yale University has announced new COVID-19 restrictions, including banning residential students from leaving campus until the Thanksgiving break. In an announcement posted Friday, school officials said they have been watching the increased spread of the coronavirus in New Haven, and hope the move helps contain the number of cases on campus. Students who live off-campus are only allowed to visit…

Students at Connecticut State Colleges and Universities are the first to try out a new contact tracing app.

A Yale University professor will co-chair President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force, according to NBC News. Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith will be one of three task force co-chairs. She is an associate professor of medicine at Yale University. She will help advise President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. “It’s always exciting to see someone you know get a leadership...