This mom s daughter will graduate from Yale. She can t be there to see it.
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The entrance to Yale University s Old Campus across from the New Haven Green, Feb., 2021.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
NEW HAVEN Shirley Gatta has been waiting for the day when she could see her daughter Lauren walk across the stage for her diploma.
She is especially proud that her daughter, who majored in graphic arts design, is graduating from Yale University.
But given Gov. Ned Lamont’s lifting almost all COVID-19 restrictions on outdoor events, she is extremely disappointed that Yale will allow no guests at its commencement events.
Yale rolls out 5 principles for endowment on fossil-fuel investing
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Yale University s board of trustees approved a new set of five principles to guide decisions regarding potential fossil-fuel divestment in its $31.2 billion endowment.
The principles, applicable to fossil-fuel producers and companies, state that they should neither explore for, produce, or supply fossil fuels that result in high greenhouse gas emissions when there are feasible alternatives; should operate in a manner consistent with best industry practices to reduce those emissions; support sensible government regulation and industry self-regulation; support accurate climate science; and provide transparency to Yale and Yale s managers regarding all those practices.
Mandated COVID vaccine? CT universities take different approaches
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Syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine wait on a table at Hartford HealthCare’s new mass vaccination clinic on the west campus of Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Conn. March 10, 2021.File / Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD Matriculating at public schools or universities means getting up to date on your immunizations, from measles to mumps to meningococcal.
But could the COVID-19 vaccine be next on the back-to-school list? At Wesleyan University, the answer is yes.
The private university in Middletown announced Tuesday that students must be vaccinated against the coronavirus before the start of the fall semester.
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Quinnipiac University in Hamden emptied after spring break last year. Many Connecticut colleges and universities are weighing whether to require that students be vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning for the fall 2021 term.
Until Tuesday morning, the key question facing college administrators in Connecticut about the COVID-19 vaccine was whether they should require students to get immunized before returning to campus in the fall.
Then, after the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced a “pause” on the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine because of concerns over the potential for blood clots, administrators’ attention for the moment turned to the question of how to vaccinate people on campus now.
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