Yale Bulletin and Calendar

June 21-July 19, 1999

Volume 27, Number 34

Campus Notes

President Richard C. Levin has announced the following appointments and reappointments, all of which are effective July 1: Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, has been reappointed as director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies for a three-year term. Nancy Cott, the Stanley Woodward Professor of History and American Studies, has been named director of the Division of the Humanities for a three-year term. New department or program chairs (all for three-year terms) are Ivan Szelenyi, department of sociology; Charles Bailyn, department of astronomy; Carlos Eire, department of religious studies; Andrew Hamilton, department of chemistry; and Lee Patterson, Medieval Studies Program. Serving as acting chairs during the 1999-2000 academic year will be John Szwed in the department of anthropology (fall semester) and María Rosa Menocal in the department of Spanish and Portuguese (spring semester). They will fill in for William Kelly and Roberto González Echevarría, respectively, who will be on leaves of absence.

Five Yale alumni are among the 98 winners of Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies, the only national humanities graduate award. The four will begin doctoral work next fall. The one-year fellowship, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, includes payment of all tuition and fees and a $14,500 stipend. The new Mellon Fellows are: Itzolin Garcia '98, who majored in comparative literature; Lesley Lundeen '97, who majored in classics and English; Megan E. O'Neil '94, whose major was cultural anthropology; Suleiman Osman '95, who majored in history; and Ashley West '93, who majored in art history and humanities. They are among the 1,600 Mellon Fellows named since the award was initiated in 1982.

Youth Together, an academic enrichment program run by Yale undergraduates for talented middle and high school students in New Haven, has won a 1999 Higher Education Community Service Award, presented by the State of Connecticut's Department of Higher Education. Youth Together is one of three programs chosen in the award's student group category. Higher Education Commissioner Andrew G. De Rocco presented the award to members of the group at a ceremony held at the State Capitol in Hartford in April.

David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History and the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Columbia University on May 19. This is the second honorary degree he has received from an Ivy League institution; Dartmouth awarded him a Doctor of Letters degree in 1977.

Morris L. Cohen, professor emeritus of law and Professorial Lecturer of Law, is the recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award for his publication "Bibliography of Early American Law." The award is given for "significant contribution to legal bibliographical literature, measured primarily by its creative and evaluative content and the extent to which judgment was a factor in its formulation." Cohen's book chronicles and classifies the monographic and trial literature of American law and legal developments from the beginnings of American history through 1860. It contains more than 14,000 entries on American cases, statutes, conventions, treatises and other law-related materials such as fiction, memoirs, sermons and ballads. Cohen, who served as Yale's law librarian, is a past president of the AALL.

Vincent J. Scully Jr., Sterling Professor Emeritus of History of Art, was one of 15 New England authors honored at the Boston Public Library's recent "Literary Lights Dinner." Held annually for the past decade, Literary Lights serves the dual purpose of celebrating New England literary talent and raising funds for the Boston Public Library. In addition to a tribute, the honored authors receive a Cartier pen and embossed notebook. Scully was cited for his most recent publications, "Between Two Towers: The Drawings of the School of Miami," "Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade" and "Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance," as well his other works.

Kirk D. Swinehart, a fourth-year graduate student in American studies, has been awarded the 1999-2000 Barra Foundation Fellowship in American Art and Material Culture from the University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Swinehart will spend the next academic year in residence at the center.

T.N. Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics and chair of the department of economics, has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. The professional organization is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry. It promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources and community outreach. Srinivasan has published extensively on international trade, development, agricultural economics and microeconomic theory.

Fred C. Robinson, the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, received a recent honor. The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters has elected him a foreign member in recognition of his scholarly contributions.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association have presented the Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award to Dr. Myron Genel, professor of pediatrics and associate dean for government and community affairs at the School of Medicine. The award is presented annually to a pediatrician who has made contributions at the national level. Genel received the award in part for his efforts to bridge pediatrics and the general medical communities. As the recipient of the award, Genel presented the Abraham Jacobi Memorial address at a recent meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Also honored for his medical work with children is Dr. Lawrence C. Kaplan, who has been chosen as one of only 30 fellows for ZERO TO THREE's prestigious Leaders for the 21st Century program. Kaplan is associate clinical professor of pediatrics and director of both the Disabled Child Care Program and the Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs at the School of Medicine. The new Leaders for the 21st Century program provides each of the participants with an opportunity to collaborate with top leaders from many disciplines, as well as receive assistance aimed at improving the lives of very young children. Kaplan, who was named Mid-Career Fellow under the program, will focus his work during the two-year fellowship on creating a child health and development curriculum for parents of children with special health care needs.

Thomas C. Duffy, associate dean of the School of Music and director of bands at the University, has been appointed music editor of the American Composers Forum's New Band Horizons Program. The program is committed to commissioning band compositions for middle school bands from leading U.S. composers. Duffy's composition "A+" is the first piece in this series. As part of his duty as music editor, Duffy recently traveled to St. Paul, Minnesota, to work with Bobby McFarrin, the series' second commissioned composer, who is known for his vocal talents and for his hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

The Yale Repertory Theatre is among 16 American theater companies selected to receive grants totaling $1 million from the National Theatre Artist Residency Program. The Yale Rep will apply its $50,000 grant toward supporting its continued explorations with choreographer Ralph Lemmon as he develops the second and third parts of his "Geography" trilogy. The trilogy involves collaborations with theater, dance, visual and musical artists that explore perceptions of racial, religious and cultural identity. "Geography Part I: Africa/Race," premiered at the Yale Rep in October 1997. The Yale Rep recently was a partner with Fleet Bank in sponsoring performances by the famous dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and his White Oak Dance Project.

Robert Sternberg, the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, has won the James McKeen Cattell Award of the American Psychological Society. The award is one of the two highest honors given by the society. Sternberg received the award in recognition of his research in the field of human intelligence.

James Jones, Yale's new basketball coach, has selected three assistant coaches. They are Curtis Wilson, Rob Senderoff and Ted Hotaling. Wilson, who graduated from Adelphi University in 1991, remains third all-time on the Adelphi University scoring list with 1,531 career points. He has been an assistant coach at the University of Vermont for the last five years. Jones worked with both Senderoff and Hotaling when he was an assistant coach at the University of Albany. The two new assistant coaches are both 1995 graduates of that school. Senderoff served as a student assistant coach at Albany for four years and recently completed his second year as a member of the Fordham University staff. Prior to that, he was a graduate assistant at Miami (Ohio) University. Hotaling played for Albany when its team advanced to the NCAA Division III "Elite Eight" and was the 1994-95 team captain. He spent last season as an assistant coach at Adelphi, where he helped the team reach the NCAA Division II "Sweet 16."

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