Yale Bulletin
and Calendar

January 25-February 1, 1999Volume 27, Number 18


























New information on Khmer Rouge atrocities added to CPG website
As Cambodia and the world watch the developing possibility of an international criminal tribunal for the newly surrendered Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the Cambodian Genocide Program (CGP) at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies has announced a major new release of data on the CGP's World Wide Web site.
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Yale University Police adding laptop
computers to its patrol cars
The Yale University Police Department recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice that will allow the campus force to install mobile data computers in all of its marked patrol vehicles.
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Devastating 'superflares' unlikely
to occur here, say scientists
In the Greek myth of Phaëthon, the chariot of the Sun inadvertently drives too close to the Earth, creating the Sahara desert with its scorching heat. Whether that myth is based in some small part on observations of a "superflare" emanating from the Sun and scorching the Earth in past millennia is a question that intrigues Yale astrophysicists Bradley E. Schaefer and Eric P. Rubenstein.
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Nursing School has established its first Center for Excellence
To celebrate the opening of its first Center for Excellence, the School of Nursing (YSN) will hold a convocation on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 3 p.m. in the school's facility at 100 Church St. South.
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O T H E RS T O R I E S

Endowed Professorships

  • Mark A. Reed

  • Stephen Skowronek

  • Jery M. Woodall

Doctoral student uncovers long-forgotten
portraits by black photographer

Drama School students present Shakespearean tale about clash of virture and vice

The 'mystery' of sight will be focus of MIT scientist's Tetelman Lecture

Re-envisioning the landscape of cities is subject of lunchtime lecture series

Harvard philosopher is teaching seminar as Henry Luce Visiting Scholar

Yale affiliates garner prizes in Society for Cinema Studies' book competition





A detail from the poster for the School of Drama's production of "Measure for Measure" by William Shakespeare at the Yale Repertory Theatre. READ STORY