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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · JANUARY 27, 2023 · VOL. CXLV, NO. 12 · yaledailynews.com · @yaledailynews
Salovey sets priorities for the year
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Salovey outlined the University's academic and financial priorities for the 2023 calendar year in an interview with the News. This year's priorities, he said, are informed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a University-wide push for diversity and a captial campaign now half-way to reaching its $7 billion target. / Tim Tai Photography Editor BY EVAN GORELICK AND WILLIAM PORAYOUW STAFF REPORTERS The University’s top priorities this year include increasing diversity, equity and inclusion within the Yale community, fundraising and investing in health-related academic initiatives, according to University President Peter Salovey. Salovey outlined the University’s academic and financial priorities for the 2023 calendar year in an interview with the News. This year’s priorities, he said, are informed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a University-wide push for diversity and a capital campaign now half-
way to reaching its $7 billion target. While each of the three priorities is long-term, Salovey and other top administrators anticipate significant progress in the coming year. “We’re gonna have to double down and work even harder,” Salovey said. Belonging at Yale Salovey said that this year, the University will focus on “Belonging at Yale” — the administration’s five-year mission to improve diversity, equity and inclusion at Yale. He told the News that the University will soon measure “the sense of belonging” among faculty, staff and students through comprehensive metrics.
On the faculty side, he told the News that Yale will soon hire 45 more faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with greater attention given to “the need for inclusion.” For students on campus, recruiting a more diverse faculty body is a pressing matter. “It’s like a two way relationship,” Aranyo Ray ’25 said. “Because you don’t go to classes and lectures just to listen to your professor. You interact with them on a human level, and you build connections. And when you find someone who has a similar face to you or has a similar
A security guard at a public elementary school in New Haven was arrested on Sunday after pursuing and shooting at a 14-year-old who had broken into his car in broad daylight. According to a Sunday press release from the New Haven Police Department, the security guard, Tiquentes Graybrown, claimed to believe the child was armed when he discharged his personal weapon. The New Haven Police Department later confirmed that the child was not armed. Graybrown said that though he shot at the child, he missed and the child was unharmed. When police arrived at the scene, they found Graybrown in the process of detaining the child. Graybrown has been charged with criminal attempt to commit assault in the 1st degree, unlawful discharge of a firearm, risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree. He is currently out on bail and has been reassigned to the central administrative office for New Haven Public Schools on Meadow St. Dave John Cruz-Bustamante, a Board of Education student representative and junior at Wilbur Cross High School, told the News that Sunday’s SEE SHOOTING PAGE 5
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ton ’23 said. “All we can control is the games we have ahead, so there is no point in worrying about which opponent we might face as the postseason approaches.” Vita Poniatovskaia ’25 started off the scoring less than three minutes into Friday’s game against Princeton. During
Saad Omer has been involved in the field of global and public health since the age of 19, a path that’s taken him from Karachi to Connecticut. Now, after four years in New Haven as an associate dean of the School of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Institute for Global Health, Omer is leaving Yale. Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Nancy Brown, interim dean of the Yale School of Public Health Melinda Pett i g re w a n d interim dean of the Yale School of Nursing Holly Saad Omer / Saad Omer Powell Kennedy announced Omer’s departure in a joint statement on Thursday. Effective June 1, 2023, Omer will be heading to Texas to serve as dean of the Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Omer’s time at Yale has been marked by his leadership of the Yale Institute for Global Health, or YIGH, and contribution to advancements in COVID-19 monitoring, vaccine and policy initiatives. “We are at that turning point where the nature of public health is changing to be responsive,” Omer told the News on the topic of his transition. “My goal would be to help redefine mod-
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The No. 2 Yale women's hockey team increased its win streak to 11 this past weekend after beating Princeton University and No. 4 Quinnipiac University. / MuscoSportsPhotos.com BY ROSA BRACERAS STAFF REPORTER With eight games left in the regular season, the Bulldogs are on track to have yet another record-breaking year. The No. 2 Yale women’s hockey team (19– 1–1, 12–1–1 ECAC) increased its win streak to 11 this past weekend after beating Princeton Uni-
versity (9–10–1, 5–9–0) and No. 4 Quinnipiac University (23–4–0, 13–2–0) on the road. Yale is also headed towards an Ivy League championship and will be strong contenders for the ECAC championship in the postseason. Despite their continued success, the Bulldogs are not looking ahead to the postseason just yet. “Right now the team is focused on finishing the regular season well,” captain Claire Dal-
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