August 23-30, 1999
Department of neuroscience graduate student Ginger Hoffman and School of Art alumnus Willie Bell are among eight artists whose works currently are on view in New Haven's alternative "untitled (space)," located at 220 College St. The display, a mix of sculpture, printmaking, painting, photography, video and film installations, can be seen 7-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday and noon-5 p.m. on Saturday. The exhibit runs through Saturday, Aug. 28. For more information, call
Wendell Bell, professor emeritus of sociology, participated in a seminar of the National Security Study Group in Arlington, Virginia, June 10 and 11. The Secretary of Defense established this new federal commission for the purpose of conducting a thorough review of American security needs from now until the year 2025. The commission, cochaired by ex-Senators Gary Hart and Warren B. Rudman, is also known as the Hart-Rudman Commission. The commission's efforts are the most comprehensive to be charted by the government since 1947 and are aimed at understanding strategic trends in the post-Cold War world. The final report will be made available to the next United States president in February 2001.
Dr. Scott Wolfe was promoted to the rank of professor of orthopaedic surgery in the clinician/scholar tract at the School of Medicine. Wolfe has been a member of the Yale staff since 1990, following his orthopaedic and hand/microsurgical specialty training in New York City. He is currently the vice-chair of education for the department of othropaedics and rehabilitation, and is the director of the Yale Hand & Upper Extremity Center.
Roxanne Moffitt, who for the past two years has served as director of communications for Long Wharf Theatre, has joined the School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre as an assistant professor (adjunct) and marketing director. Moffitt, who has been a visiting lecturer in theater management at the School of Drama for the past two years, is also chair of the Connecticut Arts Marketing Roundtable, a consortium of arts marketers. She has headed the communications departments at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre and The Canadian Stage Company in Toronto.
Political science graduate student Anne S. Kleinman is among 35 winners of a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Newcombe Fellowships encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Each fellow will receive $15,000 in support of a year of uninterrupted research and writing leading to completion of the doctoral dissertation. Kleinman's dissertation is tentatively titled "Politics of Morality in Housing: The Case of Hong Kong and Public Housing."
Two Yale College alumni received awards during graduation ceremonies at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Eric G. Enlow '94 and Darci Faulkner Madden '96 were selected to The Order of the Coif for their achievement of academic excellence. Both received a J.D. degree from the law school in May, graduating in the top 10 percent of their class. In addition, Madden also received the Family Law Award for outstanding scholastic achievement in family law.
Dr. Gerald I. Shulman is one of four clinical investigators recently honored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals AG for their "outstanding contributions to diabetes research," receiving the first annual Novartis Award in Diabetes in June. Each award recipient received $25,000. Shulman is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories and professor of medicine and cellular and molecular physiology at the School of Medicine. His research focuses on the physiology of Type 2 diabetes, primarily the relationship between glucose metabolism and insulin. Shulman's work has aided the understanding of the pathogenesis of hyperglycemia in Type 2 diabetes.
Yale University Press recently announced that Mary Jane Peluso has joined its staff as languages publisher. Peluso will be responsible for creating and developing materials in foreign languages and in English as a Second Language (ESL). Among her stated goals is to expand Yale's publishing program with materials for students, teachers and the general public in languages at the intermediate to advanced levels, as well as beginning programs in Asian languages. In ESL, she also will seek research, teacher-related proposals and advanced-level academic student materials.
Daniel Brook '00 was one of 30 students from a national application pool awarded a Sagner Fellowship to attend the Century Institute Summer Program, which was held on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, June 21-July 9. The fellowship allows students to pursue their interests in public policy through discussion and analyses of current problems facing the nation, and gives them an opportunity to interact with eminent scholars and policy practitioners. The fellowship is a project of The Century Foundation underwritten by the Sagner Family Foundation.
Mystery Writers of America has awarded Robin Winks, professor of history, its 1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work. The award, given for Winks' work as editor-in-chief of the two-volume series "Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection and Espionage," was presented last April during the organization's annual banquet in New York City.
Cynthia Smith has been appointed acting director of payroll. A certified public accountant who has worked for the Hertz Corporation, Smith previously held the position of associate controller at Yale.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, assistant professor of English and American Studies, has been named assistant director of the Whitney Humanities Center. Dillon, who teaches courses in English, American studies, and women's and gender studies, has begun planning a series of interdisciplinary working groups to be sponsored by the center. She also is initiating an open house to welcome junior faculty, in particular, to participate in center activities.
New York's Wadsworth Center last spring awarded Lynne J. Regan, associate professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, its Herbert W. Dickerman Award. The award honors an "outstanding young scientist who has demonstrated exceptional creativity in basic scientific research." Regan was cited for her "remarkable achievements in elucidating rules underlying protein folding" and her "pioneering contributions to protein design and prediction." The Wadsworth Center, a division of the State of New York Department of Health, combines basic research and education programs in the biomedical and environmental sciences with its public health focus.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded R. Howard Bloch, professor of French, a grant in support of his summer program, "The Arthurian Illuminated Manuscript and the Culture of the High Middle Ages." A national seminar designed for 15 participants, Bloch's project is one of 38 higher-education programs being funded through an allotted $3.24 million in grants from the NEH.
Dr. Malcolm Bowers Jr., professor of psychiatry, will present a talk at the Sept. 17 "Food for Thought" meeting of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of New Haven, 608 Whitney Ave., at 8 p.m. Bowers, a world authority on the effects of drugs on the brain, will discuss the topic "What Do Psychiatric Medications do in the Brain?" The meeting is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 562-0672.
President Richard C. Levin has announced the following appointments and reappointments: Paul Hudak, professor of computer science, has been named chair of the department of computer science for a three-year term; Daniel Prober, professor of applied physics and physics, has been appointed acting chair of the department of applied physics during the fall semester; Shelly Kagan, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics Philosophy, will serve as acting chair of the department of philosophy during the fall semester; Steven Zucker, the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been appointed director of the Division of the Physical Sciences and Engineering for a three-year term; this fall, while Zucker is on semester leave, Ramamurti Shankar, professor of physics, will serve as acting director of the Division of the Physical Sciences and Engineering; and in the department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Joan Steitz, the Henry Ford II Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, will continue as chair through the fall semester, Donald Engelman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, will become acting chair in the spring semester, and Thomas A. Steitz, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, will assume the departmental chair July 1, 2000.
The School Development Program, a nationally acclaimed school reform initiative of the Child Study Center developed by Dr. James P. Comer, associate dean of the School of Medicine, presented the seventh annual Patrick Francis Daly Awards for Excellence in Educational Leadership at the Omni New Haven Hotel in July. Ten principals, from elementary schools located in challenging environments throughout the United States, received the Daly Award. The award is named for the Brooklyn, New York, school principal who lost his life while attempting to aid a child.
Three students from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies are among 18 graduate students nationwide chosen as recipients of 1999-2000 research grants under the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research program. The Yale award recipients are Marian Chertow, a Ph.D. Program Scholar who received a $10,000 grant for her work on the topic of "Accelerating Commercialization of Environmental Technology in the United States"; Murray Rutherford, a Ph.D. Program Scholar who has received a $10,000 grant to study "Ecosystem Management in the U.S. Forest Service: Science, Values and Symbolism in Environment Policy"; and Huei-An Chu, a Masters Program Scholar who as awarded a $5,000 award for her work involving "Forest Stand Dynamics and Carbon Cycle."
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