Sandweiss will discuss book about Isaac Newton

Jack Sandweiss, the Donner Professor of Physics, will discuss Michael White's recent book "Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer" at the next "Books Sandwiched In," a series of free noon-hour book discussions sponsored by the Friends of the New Haven Free Public Library.

His talk will be held Thursday, Nov. 19, 12:10-12:50 p.m. in the basement of the United Church on the Green, corner of Temple and Elm streets.

Attendees are invited to bring their own lunch; coffee, tea and cookies will be available for purchase in the basement of the church 11:20 a.m.-12:10 p.m.

Doctoral students receive awards from national
Jewish foundation

Ruth Abusch-Magder, a doctoral student in the department of religious studies, and Michael Shurkin, a doctoral student in the department of history, are among 12 Ph.D. candidates in the United States awarded a National Foundation for Jewish Culture (NFJC) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Jewish Studies. The $10,000 grants will assist the two students in the completion of their doctoral dissertations. Abusch-Magder is writing "Matzo Balls and Matzo Kleis: A Comparative Study of Domestic Life in the United States and Germany, 1840-1914," while Shurkin is working on "Making French Jews French: Consistory, Culture, and the Jews of Nineteenth-Century Alsace and Algeria." The fellowships are part of the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Fund for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies. The recipients were selected by the NFJC's academic advisory committee, which is chaired by Paula Hyman, the Lucy Moses Professor of Jewish History at Yale.

Kirchner awarded membership in European Laryngological Society

Dr. John A. Kirchner, professor emeritus of surgery, recently became the first American named an honorary member of the European Laryngological Society in Rome. Kirchner, who was a professor of otolaryngology at the School of Medicine 1962-85, is the author of the recent resource "Atlas on the Surgical Anatomy of Laryngeal Cancer."