Yale Bulletin and Calendar

July 21, 2000

Volume 28, Number 35

Nancy Allen

Campus Notes

The Yale Center for British Art will serve as the site of summer "Do Downtown!" lunchtime concerts in the case of rain. In clear weather, the concerts will be held in the Temple Street Plaza on Temple St. between Chapel and Crown streets. The series, titled "Picnic in the Park," will run on consecutive Thursdays through Aug. 24, 12:30-1:30 p.m., and will feature such New Haven area music groups as Key West Trio, Brian Buster & Friends, The Clam Diggers, Tony Lee Band and George Mastrogiannis Trio. Concertgoers are asked to bring their own chairs or blankets.

Nancy Allen, adjunct assistant professor of harp at the School of Music, is one of the featured artists to perform at the season finale of Chestnut Hill Concerts on Friday, Aug. 25, at 8 p.m. The concert will take place at the First Congregational Church of Madison on Meetinghouse Lane, and will include Saint-Saens' "Fantasy for Violin and Harp," Debussy's "Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp" and Brahms' "String Quartet in c minor, Opus 51, No.1." Tickets are $11-$20, and children are admitted free. Preconcert picnic suppers will be available for $13. For information or a complete schedule of Chestnut Hill Concerts, call (203) 245-5736.

The Yale Alumni Magazine received a Grand Gold award in the category of "best articles of the year" from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The award was conferred for a December 1999 article on admissions policies in the 1960s titled "When Yale Changed: The Birth of a New Institution" by Geoffrey Kabaservice '88 B.A., '99 Ph.D.

Dr. Marc I. Lorber, professor and section chief of transplantation in the Department of Surgery, was voted president elect of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, an organization at the forefront of the national debate on proposed legislation concerning organ procurement and transplantation policy. Lorber recently completed a three-year term as treasurer. He will serve as president elect until May 2001, then serve as president until 2002. Lorber was also elected as a fellow of the American Surgical Association, which recognizes the accomplishments, dedication and years of academic service in the field of surgery. He will be inducted into the American Surgical Association in April 2001.

Naisheng Yao, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering & Applied Science, won the Arthur D. Little Prize for Best Student Poster at the spring meeting of the Catalysis Society of New England on April 29. Yao's winning entry was titled "Synthesis and Characterizations of Pt/MCM-41 Reforming Catalysts."

A recycling bin designed by a team of Yale engineering students for the class "Synthesis" (E&AS 996) received honorable mention from I.D. Magazine, a leading critical magazine covering the art, business and culture of design. The MOD recycler, designed to replace trash cans in any room in a home, features two or four bins attached to a frame with a handle and wheels for portability, and encourages the pre-sorting of materials to be recycled as other items are discarded. Members of the design team included undergraduates Michelle Landers of Pierson College and Carla Pinckney of Ezra Stiles College, and graduate students Janine Orman of the Department of Engineering & Applied Science and Samer Bitar of the School of Architecture, all of whom graduated this past June. The course is taught by Robert Apfel, the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Natalie Jeremijenko, visiting lecturer on the faculty of engineering.

James Scott, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, received the Mattei Dogan Award for Best Comparativist Book of the Year 2000 from the Society for Comparative Research, an international scholarly organization based at Yale that brings together the most distinguished comparativist scholars from various disciplines. Scott, who is also a professor of anthropology, was recognized for his book "Seeing Like a State" (Yale University Press, 1998).

Composer Martin Bresnick, adjunct professor at the School of Music, was recently honored by The American Academy in Berlin and The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). The American Academy in Berlin awarded Bresnick with a Berlin Prize Fellowship for the spring of 2001. Bresnick intends to spend his residency at the Hans Arnhold Center in Berlin on a number of compositional projects. At the first annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards Dinner on May 25, Bresnick was presented with the Aaron Copland Award for being "a great teacher and mentor whose wisdom and commitment have inspired the young composers privileged to study with him."

The Yale Repertory Theatre, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art are among the New Haven offerings listed in the third edition of the free "Downtown Guide to New Haven," published by the Town Green Special Services District under the sponsorship of New Haven Savings Bank. The new guide features additional categories and an expanded map, and lists 187 shops, 86 restaurants, 66 venues and attractions, and 70 events. To receive a free copy, call (203) 401-4245.

Wendell Bell, professor emeritus of sociology, has received a 2000 Warner Bloomberg Award "for distinguished and exceptionally creative contributions in the interdisciplinary fields of future studies and urban studies." Topics of Bell's social research have ranged from urban social participation, public leadership and nation building to comparative studies of inequality, social justice, human values and images of the future. The Bloomberg Awards recognize individuals who promote a vision of the future based on the principles of social justice.

Dr. Howard Spiro, professor emeritus of internal medicine, was presented the 2000 Julius Friedenwald Medal at Digestive Disease Week, the largest international conference devoted to gastroenterology, by the governing board of the American Gastroenterological Association. The Friedenwald Medal is the society's highest formal recognition and is awarded to an individual for a lifetime contribution to the field of gastroenterology. During his career spanning four decades, Spiro founded the Program for Humanities in Medicine, the Section of Gastroenterology and the Yale Affiliated Gastroenterology Program at the Yale School of Medicine.

Paolo Valesio, chair of the Department of Italian, won first prize in the poetry competition DeltaPOesia. His latest volume of poetry "Piazza delle preghiere massacrate" ("The Square of Slaughtered Prayers"), published in 1999 by the Edizioni del Laboratorio in Modena, was selected out of 735 submissions. Valesio received his prize on June 25 in the town of Rosolina Mare in the delta of the Po River.

The Yale Organizational Development and Learning Center is sponsoring "Give Yourself the Gift of a Day," a Life Balance Retreat taking place 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday, Aug. 11, at the Mercy Center in Madison. The fee for the retreat is $90 for members of the Yale community and $110 for the general public. For more information or to register, call (203) 432-5660 or visit www.yale.edu/learningcenter.

Dr. Charles A. Greer, professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology, and co-director of the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at the School of Medicine, has been appointed chair of the Integrative, Functional and Cognitive Neuroscience Study Section (4), Center for Scientific Review, of the National Institutes of Health. His two-year term took effect July 1.

Lisa Cardyn, a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies, was one of 15 scholars selected by the New York State Archives Partnership Trust to receive a grant to conduct research in the New York State Archives under the Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program. Cardyn will pursue research on the topic "Theorizing Practice/Practicing Theory: Traumatic Sex and the American Psychology."

The Reverend Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and pastor of the Church of Christ in Yale, was a guest speaker at the June 12 dedication of the Solomon M. Coles Classroom Building at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. Coles, the first black graduate of the Yale Divinity School in 1875, established a school in Corpus Christi for local black children in the 1800s.

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