Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 18, 2000

Volume 28, Number 21

Campus Notes

ASHA-Yale, a graduate and faculty organization at Yale dedicated to raising awareness and funds to support education projects in India, will present Sonal Vorna in an evening of Odissi dance at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Educational Center for the Arts, 55 Audubon St. Developed in eastern India in the second century B.C., Odissi combines energetic footwork (called Tandava) with graceful postures (Lasya). Vora, a nationally recognized teacher and exponent of the art form, will accompany her performance with a lecture-demonstration. Tickets are $10; $8 with a student I.D. The proceeds will fund ASHA-Yale's efforts to support indigenously developed educational projects in India. For information, call (203) 777-2713 or (203) 624-4800, or email asha@yale.edu.

Y-ME of Connecticut, a breast cancer support organization, will host an Open Door lecture by Dr. Raymond Ippolito, clinical instructor in surgery (gastroenterology), on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in First Congregational Church, 1009 Main St., Branford. Ippolito, who is also an attending surgeon at Yale-New Haven Hospital and chair of Y-ME of Connecticut, will discuss "Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node Dissection." The lecture is free and open to the public. A question-and-answer period will follow. Refreshments will be served. Y-ME of Connecticut provides information and support to individuals concerned about or diagnosed with breast cancer, including a toll-free, state-wide Hotline at 1-800-933-4YME. For information about the upcoming lecture or other Y-ME programs, call (203) 483-8200.

A selection of recent black-and-white photographs by Terry Dagradi, a graphic designer for Information Technology Services-Biomedical Communications at the School of Medicine, are featured in an exhibit at RJ Julia Booksellers, 76 Boston Rd., in Madison, Connecticut. The exhibit, titled "Gifts + Souvenirs," includes images Dagradi took in New Haven and during travels to Italy, New Mexico and the New Jersey shore. Dagradi has been exhibited internationally and regionally, most recently in a group show at the New Haven Colonial Historical Society and in a two-woman show with her mother at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. She has taught photography at the Creative Arts Workshop and is one of the founders of the Photo Arts Collective in New Haven. Her work can be seen at RJ Julia Booksellers through March 27.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale's global health program inspires doctors to continue serving the needy

Show marks retirement of noted curator

Sterling Library show celebrates 'Blacks in the Arts'

'Dino-snore!' will bring public to Peabody for the ultimate sleepover

Clinic aims to bring relief to compulsive gamblers

Yale 'bakers' show off their talents at benefit event

Yale-donated microscope inspires 'next generation of scientists'

University lends support to help New Haven become a 'city of readers'

Attorney for Abner Louima to speak at 'Rebellious Lawyering' event

Study finds similarities in U.S. and Nazi eugenics efforts

Retrospective exhibit showcases the work of the once 'most talked about artist' in Britain

Black History Month celebration

Pioneering alumna to discuss use of math in real world

Research on extremophiles may lead to better antibiotics

Symposium explores artists' special bond

Gifts make Peabody's collections more accessible

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