Bruce M. Russett, the Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science, will present a lecture titled "A Structure for Peace" at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at The Graduate Club, 155 Elm St. Russett recently served as secretariat of the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, 1993-96. Lunch will be served prior to his lecture, which will end at approximately 1:30 p.m. The cost is $20 for members of the International Center or The Graduate Club, and $25 for others. Seating is limited. For reservations, call the International Center at 432-6460.

The next meeting of the Yale-affiliated Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences will feature a lecture on "Ethics and Social Policy in the Information Age" by Terrill Bynum, professor of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU). His lecture will be on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. at SCSU, 500 Crescent St. in New Haven. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 432-3113, ext. 2.

The Yale Glee Club will present a concert to benefit the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen in New Haven on Friday, Jan. 29, at 8 p.m. at Trinity Church on the Green, corner of Chapel and Temple streets. David H. Connell will direct the concert. Donations of $10 ($5 for students) are requested but are not required. All proceeds will benefit to soup kitchen. For more information, call the Glee Club office at 432-4136.

Michael Yeargan, associate professor (adjunct) at the School of Drama, is the set designer for the Long Wharf Theatre production of Chay Yew's new play "Red." The play, running through Feb. 7 at Long Wharf, dramatizes what happens to a successful Chinese-American writer when she returns to her homeland to write a novel about a Beijing opera performer who perished during the Cultural Revolution. Through her research, she discovers a not-too-distant past when tradition, art and relationships were threatened by the tumult of the times. For information or reservations, contact the Long Wharf box office at 787-4282.

"Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910" by David Krasner, assistant professor in the theater, African American studies and English departments, recently received the 1998 Errol Hill Award for the best book, manuscript, essay or monograph on African American Theatre. The award is sponsored by the American Society for Theatre Research. Krasner, who is also director of undergraduate studies in theater, is coediting the forthcoming Oxford University Press book "African American Theatre History and Performance Studies: A Critical Reader" and is working on his next book, tentatively titled "Performing Blackness: African American Theatre and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance."

Manohar Panjabi, professor of orthopaedics at the School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the Henry Farfan Award, the highest recognition of scholarly achievement from the North American Spine Society (NASS). This award for career accomplishment is given to an investigator who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of "biomechanics or non-operative spine care." He was presented the award at the NASS's awards banquet on Oct. 30 in San Francisco.

Four women pursuing advanced degrees or conducting research at Yale have received fellowships for the 1998-99 academic year from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation in Washington, D.C. The fellows are Katherine Cassidy and Mary Cotterman, who are pursuing master of architecture degrees; Inna Merkulova, an international student from Belarus who is studying for a postdoctorate in medicine; and Kate Miller, who is completing a master of environmental studies degree in wildlife biology. They are among 290 women to receive the fellowships this year.

Dr. Walter F. Boron, professor of cellular and molecular physiology, has been elected president of the American Physiological Society, beginning in April 1999. The society, which is made up of nearly 9,000 professionals in science and medicine, is a nonprofit organization devoted to fostering education, scientific research and the dissemination of knowledge in the physiological sciences, including an understanding of basic biological functions in living organisms.

Kumpati Narendra, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Center for Systems Science, has received a gift of $50,000 from Lucent Technologies to develop learning and adaptive techniques for routing in broadband communication networks. He was previously given $2 million in funding by the National Science Foundation for 10 years to conduct basic research on the use of artificial neural networks for adaptive control, and has received $750,000 from the Office of Naval Research to develop applications of his theory to unmanned air vehicles and underwater vehicles.

"The Sentencing Letter," a tale of addiction, relapse and forgiveness by Lew Nescott Jr., a research assistant in the Development Office, recently won a silver award at the WORLDFEST-Flagstaff International Film Festival. The film is the first theatrical release for Nescott, who earned both Master of Arts in Religion and Master of Divinity degrees from the Yale Divinity School. Nescott is currently working on two spec scripts for a major producer, including a feature-length adaptation of "The Sentencing Letter." The film, which was shot at a drug treatment facility in northwestern Connecticut, made its world premiere at Film Fest New Haven earlier this year. It has been acquired under a two-year, non-exclusionary agreement by the Los Angeles-based Channel One Network. Channel One and its subsidiary, The Classroom Channel, provide news and information programming to eight million students and 550,000 educators in more than 12,000 schools across the country.

David P. Demille, assistant professor of physics, has received a $35,000 Research Innovation Award from the Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of science. Demille is one of 46 individuals from the United States and Canada to be chosen for the award, which is given to newly appointed academic scientists with ³truly original ideas.² He will attempt to measure the electric dipole moment (EDM) of an electron in lead oxide vapor, ³an experiment which could support the existence of physical forces beyond those accepted by physics¹ Standard Model or at least set an upper limit for EDM four orders of magnitude lower than the currently available value,² according to a news release from the Research Corporation.