The 25th anniversary of the Yale Cancer Center was celebrated on March 4 at a benefit titled "La Cassa Magica (The Black Box)" at the Country Club of Fairfield in Southport. Donations of "La Magie" scarves from Hermès of Paris, the sponsor of the event, and auction items from other companies raised nearly $300,000. Kathryn Adams and Nancy Conroy, members of the Cancer Center's Advisory Board, were co-chairs of the event. Board member and Fox Television news anchor Paula Zahn served as host of the event.
John Ryden, director of Yale University Press, received an Ives Award at the New Haven Free Public Library's second annual Mardi Gras fundraiser on March 7. He was honored for spearheading the campaign to ensure that the library receives copies of all new Yale University Press books for its permanent collection. The award, given to supporters of the library, is named for Mary E. Ives, a New Haven citizen who in 1910 donated $390,000 to fund the library's first permanent home.
Lawrence Scahill, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing, has been appointed to an expert panel for the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses to develop guidelines for addressing the physical and mental health needs of patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Scahill, who is also a faculty member at the School of Medicine and a clinician at the Child Study Center, is a noted expert on ADHD and Tourette's Syndrome.
Theodore Marmor, professor in the School of Management and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, will sign copies of his new book "The Politics of Medicare," published by Aldine de Gruyter, 4-5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21, at Book Haven, 290 York St. Refreshments will be served. For more information or to reserve a copy of the book, call (203) 787-2848.
Dr. Kyle Pruett, clinical professor of child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and the School of Nursing, will discuss the merits of fathering and sign copies of "Fatherneed" at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway. Pruett, a child care expert and father of a one-year-old daughter, reports on the latest research on fathering in his new book, which also acts as a how-to guide for fathers and fathers-to-be.
Two faculty members will be featured in "Books Sandwiched In," a series of noon-hour book discussions sponsored by the Friends of the New Haven Free Public Library. All discussions will take place at 12:1012:50 p.m. on Thursdays at the United Church on the Green, corner of Temple and Elm streets. On March 30, Charles Bailyn, professor and chair of astronomy, will discuss "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love" by Dava Sobel. On April 6, Mark Reed, the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and chair of electrical engineering, will discuss "The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story" by Michael Lewis. Participants are invited to bring a lunch; coffee and cookies will be available for purchase in the basement before the talks begin. For more information, call (203) 288-1900 or (203) 230-0847.
Katherine Matzkin, director of placement and staff relations, will present a workshop on how to apply for jobs at Yale, 56:30 p.m. on Monday, April 3, at the Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St. For more information, call (203) 946-8130.
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of three new department chairs. Ruth Yeazell, the Chace Family Professor of English, will serve as chair of the Department of English for a three-year term beginning on July 1. She will succeed Linda Peterson. In addition, Andrew Barron, professor of statistics and electrical engineering, will chair the Department of Statistics for a two-and-a-half-year term beginning on Jan. 1, 2001. He succeeds David Pollard, who will extend his appointment as chair through the 2000-2001 fall semester. Finally, David Pearce, the Henry Ford II Professor of Economics, will be chair of the Department of Economics for a three-year term beginning on July 1. He succeeds T.N. Srinivasan, who has chaired the department for the past two-and-a-half years.
George Schoolfield, professor emeritus of German and Scandinavian literature, is the first non-citizen of Finland to be awarded the Tollander Prize and Tollander Medal of the Swedish Literary Society in Finland. He was honored in a ceremony at the University of Helsinki-Helsingfors on Feb. 5, the birthday of the Finnish national poet, Johan Ludwis Runeberg. Established in 1913 from a bequest by the banker Karl Emil Tollander, the prize was given to Schoolfield for his "decades of service to the Swedish-language literature of Finland and, in particular, 'A History of Finland's Literature.'"
The Associated General Contractors of Connecticut presented the Law School's Sterling Law Buildings Renovation Project with a Year 2000 Build Connecticut Award at a dinner presentation on Feb. 3. Taking part in the awards dinner were Stephen Yandle and Mike Thompson, associate deans of the Law School, and Kemel Dawkins, associate vice president of the Office of Facilities. The award, the first ever in the Large Renovation category, specifically recognized Phase III of the renovation. Phase III was completed over three years and includes total renovation and expansion of the Law School's classroom and library spaces. The judging criteria for the Build Connecticut Award included state-of-the-art advancement; excellence in project management and team effectiveness; innovation in construction techniques, materials or designs; excellence in client services; contribution to the community; and meeting the challenge of a difficult job.
Yale University Press will become the exclusive worldwide distributor of scholarly publications and exhibition catalogues published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art effective May 2000. The museum currently issues 20 to 25 such publications per year. In the new arrangement, Yale University Press will also be responsible for the distribution of nearly 150 of the museum's previously published titles. Of the new agreement, publishing director Tina C. Weiner said, "Yale University Press is delighted to become the Met's worldwide distributor in both the trade and academic markets. We feel the synergy between the two lists is ideal and will form the basis of an effective and mutually rewarding partnership." Founded in 1909, Yale University Press is one of the largest American university presses, publishing over 220 new titles and 70 paperback reprints a year in a wide range of disciplines.
Anne M. Dropick, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature, and William Venable Rapp, director of graduate studies for international relations, are two of the approximately 750 U.S. faculty and professionals to receive 1999-2000 Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture or conduct research abroad. Dropick will conduct research at the Institute for Text Research and History in Paris, France, on the topic "Eustache Deschamps and the Development of Authorial Voice in Early French Literature; From Scriptorium to Printer's Guild: The History of the Book through the Work of Deschamps." Rapp will lecture and conduct research at Ritsumeikan University in Tokyo, Japan, on the topic "Japan's Aging Economy and its Multinationals' Global Interests: Japan's Policy Options and Competition for Resources." Twelve foreign scholars from such countries as Lebanon, Vietnam and Sweden will be resident on campus this year in the departments of music, economics, and acting and directing, among others.
Friends and colleagues of Csaba Horváth, the Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering, gathered on campus Jan. 23-25 for a symposium recognizing his contributions to separation science and engineering. All the featured speakers at the event were former students of Horváth's, who now hold posts at various companies and universities in the United States, Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland. The professor, whose birthday coincided with the celebration, was toasted each night of the symposium at dinners in his honor. At other times of the year, admirers of the Yale professor, who refer to themselves as "Csabaites," keep in touch on the World Wide Web, where they "meet" for discussions on separation-related topics at www.egroups.com/group/csabaites/info.html.
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