Yale is the latest institution to stop accepting donations from members of the Sackler family, who faces criticism for its alleged role in stoking the opioid epidemic.
The Sacklers own OxyContin-maker, Purdue Pharma. The family is valued at nearly $13 billion, but their company filed for bankruptcy as it tries to settle thousands of opioid lawsuits.
Yale spokesperson Karen Peart says the university considered those legal actions in its decision to refuse Sackler donations earlier this year.
The Sacklers have endowed Yale with many millions, including a professorship at the Yale Cancer Center that bears the family name.
Yale follows institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which stopped accepting the family’s donations in May and stripped the Sackler name from one of its wings.
The University of Connecticut has not decided to refuse donations from the Sacklers. Instead, a spokesperson says UCONN has frozen spending of past Sackler funds.