Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 26-May 3, 1999

Volume 27, Number 30

Campus Notes

The Law School's Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization is cosponsoring a workshop titled "It Takes a Village ... A Dialogue on the Child Protection System" on Friday, April 30, at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St. The event will take place 10-11:30 a.m. Panelists will include a New Haven Juvenile Court judge and a representative of the Department of Children and Families. The event, which is free and open to the public, is also sponsored by Mothers for Justice.

President Richard C. Levin has announced two new appointments and a reappointment. Donald Green, director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), has been reappointed to the post for a three-year term. Green, professor of political science, will begin his new term as ISPS director July 1. Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, has been appointed chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese. His three-year term is effective July 1. In addition, Ora Avni, professor of French, has agreed to serve as acting chair of the department of French during the 1999-2000 spring semester. Avni's term as acting chair will coincide with department chair Professor Christopher Miller's leave of absence.

Among the 27 scholars selected by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to receive its newly established Fellowships in American Civilization is David Waldstreicher, assistant professor of American studies and history. The fellowships provide up to $2,500 a month for up to three months to scholars interested in doing research at any of three collections of archives located in New York City: the Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Collection and the Library of the New York Historical Society. Waldstreicher will conduct research at the latter institution in connection with his project "Benjamin Franklin's America: Slavery, Servitude and the Self-Made Man."

Lynne J. Regan, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has received the fourth Herbert W. Dickerman Award from the Wadsworth Center. She was selected for the award, which is named after a former director of the center, in recognition of her achievements in elucidating rules underlying protein folding, as well as for her contributions to protein design and prediction. As the winner of the award, Regan will visit the Wadsworth Center this spring for two days, during which she will present a lecture and meet with staff researchers, members of the Dickerman family, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and other scientific staff. The award carries an honorarium of $2,000. The Wadsworth Center combines basic research and education programs in the biomedical and environmental sciences with a mission in public health.

Three students at the Yale School of Management (SOM) have been named this year's recipients of the school's Citibank in Excellence Academic Awards. The three -- Lisa Fabish, Christopher Granger and Samir Kulkarni -- will receive M.B.A. degrees from SOM in May. Before attending Yale SOM, Fabish was the call center director for Share Group, where she managed a $2.5 million telemarketing center serving socially responsible businesses. She was awarded academic distinction in seven of her SOM classes. Granger entered Yale SOM after working as the concierge manager of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, where he helped train employees, coordinated transportation, itineraries and security for high-profile guests, and created an accounting system that resulted in an 80 percent cost reduction in the guest service inconvenience account. He was awarded academic distinction in five Yale SOM classes. Kulkarni came to Yale SOM after earning his undergraduate degree at Canada's York University. While an undergraduate, he also was president of Premier Magnetic Limited, a 15-person automated videocassette assembler company. He was awarded academic distinction in six Yale SOM classes.

Joseph P. Mullinix, Vice President for Finance and Administration, has announced the appointment of Walter Mullen, as director of University-Wide Data Warehouse and Management Reporting. He will be responsible for managing the use and evolution of the University's Data Warehouse and establishing an environment that supports the University's management reporting needs. Mullen is a 1987 graduate of the Yale School of Management (SOM) who has served in several University positions, including director of finance and administration at Yale SOM. Most recently he was coleader of the financial planning and management team for Project X.

Mullinix has also announced that Carolyn Burke has been appointed executive director for administrative operations. She replaces Margaret (Peggy) Plympton, who left Yale last summer. Burke began her new job on March 22. She is responsible for special projects in all areas of the Finance and Administration organization, including technology, facilities renovation and long-range planning. She comes to Yale from ARCO in Los Angeles, where she served as business manager for new business development. Previously, she worked for the Pew Charitable Trusts. Burke received her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and her B.A. from Wellesley College.

Robert Sternberg, the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, has received an award from the Palmer O. Johnson Award Committee of the American Educational Research Association. The award is for Sternberg's 1998 article for Educational Researcher titled "Abilities are Forms of Developing Expertise." Sternberg has received international attention for his studies of human intelligence.

Thomas M. Greene '49, Ph.D. '55, the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of English and Comparative Literature, has been awarded the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award by the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). He was presented the award at the RSA conference in Los Angeles on March 26. Daniel Javitch, professor of comparative literature at New York University, delivered Greene's tribute. He praised Greene's "historically informed, discriminating and balanced reading of 16th- and 17th-century poets as an example of the kind of understanding that risks getting lost when strictly ideological interpretation prevails." Greene is internationally recognized for his contributions to the study of Renaissance literature in English, French, Italian and Latin. His books include the award-winning "The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry."

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