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Activist Ai-jen Poo to Give Gruber Lecture February 26 on Creating a Care Infrastructure
Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Co-director of the Caring Across Generations campaign, will give the Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women's Rights on February 26, 2018.
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Azar Sworn in as Health Secretary
Alex Azar ’91 was sworn in as Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department on January 29, 2018.
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On Opposite Sides of the Travel Ban
When a controversial executive order on immigration was implemented in January 2017, two YLS alumni reunited in the most unexpected way.
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Gandolfo Vincent DiBlasi ’78 Dies at 64
Gandolfo Vincent DiBlasi died on January 14, 2018, at the age of 64.
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Judge Winter ’60 Awarded Federal Judiciary’s Highest Honor
The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation presented the 33nd annual Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award to Senior Judge Ralph K. Winter '60 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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2018 EPI Finds Air Quality as the Leading Environmental Threat
Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum.
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Yale Senior Helps Organize New Haven's Latest Gun Buyback Program
For his capstone project in the Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights of the Schell Center, Rohan Naik YC ’18 helped organize New Haven's sixth gun buyback program.
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Yale Law Faculty Involved in Report to Revoke Surrogacy Ban
A New York State Task Force on Life and the Law that Professor Abbe R. Gluck ’00 serves on has recommended that the State do away with a longtime ban on women serving as paid childbirth surrogates.