Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 6-13, 1999

Volume 28, Number 3

Campus Notes

Patrick McCaughey, director of the Center for British Art, and Malcolm Warner, curator of the center's upcoming exhibit "James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love," will participate in a talk and reception in honor of the exhibit Wednesday, Sept. 8, at Christie's auction house, New York City. The event also will feature a guided gallery talk by Christie's 19th-century paintings experts Polly Sartori and Nicholas Maclean focusing on the market and audience at auction for work by James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot. The Center for British Art's Tissot exhibit will open Sept. 22.

Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, gave the keynote speech at a ceremony in July celebrating the establishment of the John C.H. Fei Memorial Foundation in Taipei, Taiwan. The purpose of the foundation is to facilitate student exchanges between Taiwan institutions and Yale, encourage comparative studies of Chinese socio-economic development, and foster cooperation between scholars from Taiwan and Yale. The foundation was established at the special request of, and with a significant personal contribution by, Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, who also met with Ranis. John Fei, a well-known professor of economics at Yale who passed away in 1996, was a friend and long-term collaborator of Ranis, and advised Teng-hui when he was writing his Ph.D. dissertation in
economics.

Among the names mentioned in the premiere issue of Talk magazine, on an editor-compiled list capriciously titled "50 Big Mouths We Hope Will Never Shut Up," is that of Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities and a Yale alumnus. The list includes such well-known artists, advocates and academicians as writer Maya Angelou, activist Jesse Jackson, feminist Catharine MacKinnon, and scholar Cornel West.

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

Employees invited to attend home football games for free

Broadway-bound stores include café and national chain

The Spirit of Adventure by President Richard C. Levin

Hazards of Success by Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead

Study reveals target of attacks by diabetes-causing cells

New medical students given their 'cloaks of compassion'

Nursing students will take bike trek to raise money for AIDS care

In the News . . .

Architecture School invites 'leading talents' to teach

Chester Kerr, editor emeritus of the Yale University Press, dies

Guide reveals widespead interest in bioethics on campus

Yale employees invited to 'Do Downtown!'

'Titanic' discoverer to discuss undersea explorations

Reaccreditation team to visit this fall

Open house marks completion of student-built home

Campus Notes