The Latest Breaking News from Yale

LOS ANGELES — In the mosquito breeding rooms of British biotech company Oxitec, scientists line up fresh eggs, each the size of a grain of salt. Using microscopic needles, the white-coated researchers inject each egg with a dab of a proprietary synthetic DNA.

Cruz made his demands as he braces for protests against his own visit to the university on Monday

Staffer allegedly bought electronics with university funds and sent hardware to out of state business

From his Original Jurisdiction today, an excerpt (though the whole thing is much worth reading): Here's what the policy—which Dean Gerken never quotes from in her message, oddly enough—actually provides: (1) "a university event, activity, or its regular or essential operations may not be disrupted"; (2) protesters "may not interfere…

HARTFORD, Conn. — An administrator at Yale’s University’s school of medicine admitted in court Monday that she stole millions of dollars from the school by purchasing $40 million or more in computer equipment through school accounts and secretly reselling it for her own profit.

From its founding with money from Yale, the company has grown to manage tens of billions of dollars of assets

For my earlier post on the incident, see here; three follow-ups: [1.] Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law)—one of the most prominent liberal constitutional law scholars in the country—and Chancellor Howard Gillman (UC Irvine) had a Washington Post op-ed, "Free speech doesn't mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate"; an…

There are major baseball implications, too.

For filmmaker Mariama Diallo, writing "Master," a "spooky drama" about Black women navigating the politics at a tony New England college, was a way of excising the microaggressions and racism she'd suppressed during her undergraduate years at Yale.