Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 28, 2000

Volume 28, Number 30

Campus Notes

Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities and English, will discuss and sign copies of his new book "How to Read and Why" (Scribner Press) 4-5:30 p.m., on Wednesday, May 3, 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.

In a concert benefiting the Family Support Fund of the Yale Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs, the Alphen Opus 2 of Holland and the "K" Trio of North Haven will perform "Musical Dutch Treats" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, in the Thornton Wilder Auditorium of the Miller Library complex, 2901 Dixwell Ave., Hamden. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children, and include light refreshments of Dutch sweet treats and beverages.

The Alliance for Architecture, a program of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, has arranged guided tours of the offices of distinguished New Haven architects. At 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 6, the tour will include the offices of Cesar Pelli & Associates; Buchanan Associates; David Harlan, Architects; and Herbert S. Newman & Partners. Pelli is a visiting professor and Newman is a critic of architecture, both at the School of Architecture. At 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, the tour will include the offices of Allan Dehar Associates, Connell Associates Architects, Thompson-Ameche Architects and Kevin Roche-John Dinkloo & Associates. The event is a fundraiser to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the alliance. Tickets are $25 for one day and $40 for both days. Call Diana Paschall at (203) 772-2788 for more information.

The Town Green Special Services District invites all Yale affiliates to attend six free "Do Downtown!" lunchtime concerts in New Haven's newest downtown pocket park, the Temple Street Plaza, one-half block from the New Haven Green across from the Omni Hotel. The concert series will run on consecutive Thursdays starting May 11, 12:30-1:30 p.m., and will feature such New Haven area musical groups as the Odyssey Brass Quintet, The George Baker Experience, The Clam Diggers, the Giacomo Gates Jazz Trio, A Broadway Cabaret Experience and the Klyph Johnson Jazz Trio. In case of rain, the performances will relocate to the covered portico of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

Timothy Dwight College senior Elise Couper has been selected as a scholar of the St. Andrew's Society of the State of New York. She will pursue graduate studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland during the 2000-01 academic year.

Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, will present the Charles Homer Haskins Lecture, titled "A Life of Learning," on May 5 at the annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies in Washington, D.C.

The Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs (IEFP) has announced the appointment of George Levesque, who until recently served as part-time study abroad adviser at IEFP, to the newly created position of assistant director for UK fellowships. The position was created to support the Rhodes, Marshall and other postgraduate scholarship programs. A 1994 graduate of the Divinity School, Levesque has worked at the Divinity School as a part-time research fellow on the Jonathan Edwards Project, in the Office of Undergraduate Career Services as a general career counselor, at Berkeley College as resident fellow and as a freshman faculty adviser. He has coordinated the international student orientation and served as assistant master of the summer programs.

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Department of Political Science adds eleven new faculty members

$3 Million dollar grant to fund research on mental disorder

Talk by Nobel laureate to highlight Student Research Day

Conference to explore link between science, religion and nature

Alanna Schepartz named Harris Professor

Chertow is honored for environmental work

Football player gives advice on achieving potential

Author tells of goal to change 'archaic' publishing process

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Study confirms irregular fetal heartbeats are not a cause for panic

Yale College juniors selected for honors by Council of Masters

Sledge reappointed Calhoun College master

Search committee formed for dean of Divinity School

Scholar on families and illness joins nursing faculty

Ten physicians are elected to Yale Faculty Practice board

Center has announced winners of the first Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowships in Humanities

'Witness,' a documentary based on Yale's Holocaust testimony archive, wins film award

Free screening for anxiety, depression

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