On a day that thousands of Yalies were scheduled to gather all over the world for the 12th Yale Day of Service, the concept of gathering has changed dramatically. However, the need for community building and local support are in higher demand than ever.

Join fellow alumni for a discussion of the ways in which alumni groups can form and maintain relationships with local partners, and hear from one group that did just that during remarkable circumstances in the COVID-19 crisis.

Now more than ever we can gain from Positive Psychology.  We are fortunate to have an expert in the field - Dr. Smaranda Lawrie '04 from UC Santa Barbara, who will give us an exciting lunch & learn:  "Turn Outwards - Positive Psychology Lessons for Living Your Best Life During a Global Pandemic".  

Join via Zoom (Meeting ID: 776 2045 2882, Password: 3gU8x6)

Yale Club of Hong Kong is pleased to host a virtual event with Dr. Jayson Jia (Yale College ’08), Associate Professor of Marketing at HKU.
 
Dr. Jia and his co-authors have recently developed a new method to accurately track the spread of COVID-19 using population flow data, and establishing a new risk assessment model to identify high-risk locales of COVID-19 at an early stage, which serves as a valuable toolkit to public health experts and policy makers in implementing infectious disease control during new outbreaks.  The study findings have been published in the journal Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2284-y/metrics).
 
Dr. Jia and his co-authors used nation-wide data provided by a major national carrier in China to track population movement out of Wuhan between 1 January and 24 January 2020, a period covering the annual Chunyun mass migration before the Chinese Lunar New Year to a lockdown of the city to contain the virus. The movement of over 11 million people travelling through Wuhan to 296 prefectures in 31 provinces and regions in China were tracked.
 
Combining the population flow data with the number and location of COVID-19 confirmed cases up to 19 February 2020 in China, Dr Jia’s team showed that the relative quantity of human movement from the disease epicentre, in this case, Wuhan, directly predicted the relative frequency and geographic distribution of the number of COVID-19 cases across China. The researchers found that their model can explain 96% of the distribution and intensity of the spread of COVID-19 across China statistically.
 
Remarks: This is a private event, and participants are requested to respect the confidentiality of the views and opinions expressed. For enquiry, please email rawen.huang@aya.yale.edu

Please note this event takes place at 12:00 pm Hong Kong time / 12:00 am Eastern Time. 

What do a pie baker and a tech angel have in common? A shared connection to Yale and a vision to help small businesses remain afloat, while feeding the vulnerable. Please join Ken Inadomi ’76 for a conversation with Lenore Estrada ’05, Founder and Executive Director of SF New Deal and owner of Three Babes Bakeshop. The Audience Q&A will be led by Grace Hsieh ’07. SF New Deal was funded by Twitch CEO, Emmett Shear ’05.

This webinar is brought to you in partnership with the Yale Alumni Association shared interest groups, Accelerate Yale, and the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (YANA). By registering for this webinar, you agree to sharing your email address with these groups for future communication. For more information, contact Wendy Maldonado D’Amico ’93. 

Past YASC travelers,

Let's get together and celebrate 12 years of YASC and 27 (and counting) trips!

Join us for a YASC Cocktail Hour/Night Cap on Tuesday, May 12, at 5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. ET (zoom dialing instructions are listed below).

Come share your stories, connect with fellow travelers, learn more about recent trips, as well our plans for 2021 (highlighted by YASC in Peru: Along the Maranon) and beyond.

We encourage everyone to wear their favorite YASC T-shirt and use a trip photo as your virtual Zoom background.

If interested, please RSVP by 邮箱ing João Aleixo.

We look forward to seeing you on May 12!

Stay safe and healthy with your families.

Join us for this virtual panel program featuring Yale journalists who will discuss their experiences reporting on stories and working in journalism during the current coronavirus pandemic. This event will consider how travel restrictions, lockdowns, and work-from-home mandates have shaped reporting practices; how newsrooms have been adapting to the pandemic; how reporters have worked to tell coronavirus-related stories from the angle of their specific beat; and how this pandemic will shape the future of journalism going forward.