Christopher Clay, a graduate student in the department of East Asian languages and literatures, will present a lecture titled "Perspectives on the Work of Art" on Friday, Feb. 5, at the Christ Presbyterian Church Study Center, 135 Whitney Ave. His talk will begin at 7 p.m. and will be followed by a discussion. Admission is free, and the public is invited.

The Yale Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Shinik Hahm, will perform on Sunday, Feb. 7, at Riverside Church in New York City. There, they will repeat their Feb. 6 Yale concert featuring Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" and "Third Piano Concerto." Performing on piano in the latter work will be School of Music faculty member Claude Frank. The Yale Glee Club and the Yale Camerata, as well as two vocal soloists in Yale's opera program, will join the orchestra in its performance of Beethoven's symphonic work. For more information, call 432-4140.

School of Nursing professor Ann B. Williams will be presented the Award for Excellence from the National Center of Excellence in Women's Health on Friday, Feb. 19, at noon in the Max Taffel Room of Yale-New Haven Hospital. The award is given annually to a Yale researcher who has made recent and significant contributions to women's health. Williams is being recognized for her studies of economically disadvantaged and marginalized women with AIDS. She is the principal investigator of the GRACE Project, which helps HIV-infected women deal with gynecological infections and comply with complex medication schedules. Williams has also helped nurses and other providers in Poland, China and Vietnam learn to prevent AIDS and care for patients with the virus. She works as a nurse practitioner, providing primary care to people living with HIV/AIDS. She was elected a Distinguished Alumna of the School of Nursing in 1993. At the awards ceremony, she will present her research and answer questions. The event is open to the public.

Karl Turekian, the Benjamin Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics, has been appointed acting director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) by President Richard C. Levin. YIBS director Elisabeth Vrba, professor of geology and geophysics, will be on a leave of absence during the spring term. Her term as YIBS director expires in June.

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, the Harold W. Cheel Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics, has been appointed the Rothschild Visiting Professor at the Newton Institute at Cambridge University in England. He will be at Cambridge during the months of January, February and March of this term.

Dr. Rosemarie L.L. Fisher, director of residency training programs and professor of internal medicine (digestive diseases) at the School of Medicine, is one of 36 women from medical and dental schools selected to participate in the fourth class of the Hedwig van Amerigen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. The program is the only in-depth, national program that prepares women faculty for senior leadership positions at academic health centers. ELAM's principal aims are to increase the success of senior women faculty in seeking leadership positions and to increase the number of women leaders at academic health centers. Dr. Fisher's year-long fellowship begins in September.

General Motors Corporation (GM) announced in December that it has retained Henry A. Turner, the Charles J. Stillé Professor of History, to undertake a year-long research project to examine the activities of the company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Adam Opel A.G., in Germany during World War II and the period immediately preceding it. Turner, a leading scholar on the history of Nazi Germany, will work with a team of research assistants to locate, copy and catalog documents from this period, including GM records and personnel files. GM officials, who have granted Turner unrestricted access to all files, have stated that they are committed to an open investigation. Turner will be on leave of absence from Yale to conduct this research and to publish a comprehensive history of the subject. A copy of all the materials he uses in his investigation will be donated to Yale's archives, where they will be available for scholarly research.

Menachem Elimelech, who was recently appointed to the Yale faculty as the Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering, has joined the editorial board of "Environmental Science and Technology," the premier journal in environmental engineering science. International contributors provide at least 40 percent of the papers printed in the journal, which is published by the American Chemical Society.

Michael Holquist, chair of the comparative literature department, has been named the Northrop Frye Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Toronto for the year 2000. Established to honor the eminent Canadian scholar and theorist Northrop Frye, the Frye lectures, together with the Christian Gauss seminars at Princeton University (which Holquist delivered in the spring of 1989), are among the most distinguished lecture series in the area of literary theory. The subject of Holquist's lectures will be "Philology as History and as Task."