Yale Student Dies When Hair Gets Caught in Machinery 30.81K Remy Stern 04/13/11 11:11PM Filed to: Jezebel Jezebel Republished Michele Dufault, a Yale student who was just weeks from graduation, died today when her hair was pulled into equipment in a chemistry lab. Dufault, an astronomy and physics major, was working on her thesis project at the time. [Jezebel]