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11/18/20

African Women as Pillars of Resilience

  The third in our series of African Women as Pillars of Resilience public webinars took place on 16 November 2020. The focus of this webinar, conducted in both English and French, was "Mitigating the Economic Impacts of the Pandemic on African Women."...
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11/16/20

Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19

Covid-19 | Y-RISE Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19: Rapid data collection, iterative policy assessment, scale up of effective policy COVID-19 has had a catastrophic impact across developed economies, shutting down cities, overloading the health infrastru...
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11/13/20

Sustainable Health Initiative 2020 Bridge Program

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Yale Institute of Global Health's 2020 Sustainable Health Initiative (SHI) accelerator program had been postponed. Now to keep startups moving forward on important global health issues, SHI has created the Sustainable Health Initiative Bri...
11/09/20

Sunil Amrith joins Yale as chair of South Asian Studies Council

Sunil Amrith, the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, has been named the new Chair of the Yale MacMillan Center’s South Asian Studies Council. He was a 2017 MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities. He has joined Yale from Harvard....
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11/02/20

Yale Young Global Scholars Plans for Summer 2021 Offerings

Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS) has released its application for next year’s program, offering twelve academic sessions at Yale. Participants will experience life as a university student by attending lectures and seminars, meeting peers from around the world, and acces...
10/30/20

Yale Center Beijing gathering connects Yale students studying in China with alums

Forty Yale College students currently studying remotely or taking a gap year in China gathered together at Yale Center Beijing on October 23rd through 25th to connect with classmates and alumni from throughout China. Many international students have been unable to return to Ne...
10/29/20

The Yale Africa Startup Review

The Yale Africa Startup Review (YASR) is an annual Yale-wide Africa student-led feature of startups shaping the future of innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. The Review is a product born out of our shared desire to ensure the narrative of African innovation and ent...
10/28/20

An Interview with Helinna Ayalew, M.A. African Studies Program ’14

In our alumni spotlight series, we interviewed Helinna Ayalew who is the Head of Digital Education at Liquid Telecom. Helinna received her M.A. in African Studies from Yale University and B.A. in International Studies from Macalester College. She spoke with us about her passio...
10/28/20

An Interview with Naana Frimpong, J.D. Yale Law School ’04

In our alumni spotlight series, we interviewed Naana Frimpong who currently serves as Counsel at King & Spalding, LLP. Naana received her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School and her undergraduate degree from Amherst College. She spoke to us about her time at Yale, her...
10/28/20

On Campus and the Continent – How COVID has Impacted Yale’s African Community

For the "Focus on Africa" newsletter fall edition, the Yale African Student Association (YASA) members share their stories on coping and contunuing to learn during the global pandemic. Read more about how they are navigating these challenging times on campus and acro...

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