Campus Clips

Yale spoke out against a proposed US Office of Management and Budget regulation that would subject all federal grants to review by political appointees to insure, among other things, that they “advance the President’s policy priorities.” In a letter to the OMB, vice provost for research Michael Crair wrote that the regulation “would undermine the productivity of university research and ultimately damage America’s global leadership in areas of scholarship that are vital to the health and well-being, prosperity, competitiveness, and security of the country.” The regulation would go into effect on October 1.

Nonprofit groups in New Haven will benefit from a new fund established by the university this spring. The Yale and New Haven Community Fund will award $1.5 million per year for the next three years to nonprofits based in the city for proposals that would “make substantial and meaningful investments in neighborhoods citywide.” In addition to major awards that will range from $50,000 to $500,000, the fund will also offer smaller awards of up to $5,000. The fund was created as part of the agreement reached between the city and the university in March over Yale’s voluntary payments to the city.

Yale College has implemented some changes recommended by two recent committee reports on the admissions process and trust in higher education. The admissions website now includes a chart to show quickly what families can expect to pay for a Yale education. The site also now makes clearer the academic profile of a viable candidate, explaining that “prospective applicants should know that the overwhelming majority of Yale College students score above the 95th percentile on the SAT or ACT, which in 2025 was over 1420 on the SAT or 31 on the ACT.”

Two students uncovered a long-forgotten pioneer in the history of the School of Public Health last year. The school’s records indicated that early 20th-century alum Chenghui Ge ’24MPH, ’26DrPH, was the first known public health student from China, but they also indicated that Ge was a man. While working on an article about the history of Asian women at the School of Medicine, Qi Yan ’27PhD and visiting medical student Xuezhu (Sunny) Wang discovered that Ge was in fact a woman who had left the gender field on her scholarship application blank. Ge returned to China after her studies and had a long career in public health.