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July 19-August 23, 1999Volume 27, Number 35




























Accomplished high school students
will attend Yale as Sterling Scholars

Four outstanding high school students from New Haven will enter Yale this fall as "Sterling Scholars in the Class of 2003."

The Sterling Scholars program was established in 1923 by the Yale Corporation with funding from a bequest by Yale alumnus John W. Sterling (B.A. 1864). Each year, Yale-bound students from the New Haven community are given Sterling scholarships in recognition of their "scholastic merit, general promise, personality, and high character."

This year's Sterling Scholars are Crystal Gayle Astrachan and David Koch from Hill Regional Career High School and Timothy Gambell and Jing Wang from Wilbur Cross High School.

Astrachan took all of her courses during the spring semester at the University of New Haven, having earlier studied mathematics at Yale. She works 15 hours a week in a city drug abuse prevention program for children and another 15 hours a week at a local supermarket. As a participant in New Haven's Sister City Program, she has traveled to Leon, Nicaragua, and this summer will travel to Mexico on a scholarship.

Koch is valedictorian of his class at Career High School, where he served on the Principal's Advisory Board. He worked at the Yale Animal Research Center, and throughout high school has held a 20-hour-a-week job.

Gambell, who has been hailed for his outstanding promise as a writer, was in the writing program of the Educational Center for the Arts and coedited the Wilbur Cross Yearbook. He served for two years as a senior apprentice at the Eli Whitney Museum.

Wang arrived in this country from his native China only four years ago. Since that time, he has mastered English and cites reading as one of his passions. Having already taken astronomy and economics courses at Yale, he will pursue his dream of becoming a writer.


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Yale students working with city residents to revitalize New Haven . . .
Top women in tennis to vie for Pilot Pen trophy
Enterprise Center helping to transform ideas for new businesses into realities
With NIH support, researchers seek ways to heal spinal cord
Exhibit pays tribute to Fossey's work with mountain gorillas
Entomologist verifies immigrant mosquito's arrival in state
Artistic transgressions applauded in Yale Art Gallery show
Fellowship winners devote summer to work in Elm City
Dwight Hall internships provide opportunity for public service
Accomplished high school students will attend Yale as Sterling Scholars
Alumni honored for their success as scholar-athletes
Support renewed for Yale-China's summer institutes
Links between environment, economy explored in new books
Yale affiliates featured in exhibit focusing on East and West Rocks
Noted pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton to speak at annual conference
Campus Notes
Tentacled trek


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