Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 2, 2001

Volume 29, Number 21

Two-Week Issue

Campus Notes

Richard S. Field, associate director of the Yale University Art Gallery, was part of the panel that selected the photographs in the exhibition "Images" at the Mill Gallery of the Guilford Handcraft Center on Route 77 in Guilford. The exhibition, presented by the Shoreline Arts Alliance, runs through March 17. The gallery is open noon-4 p.m. daily. For more information, call (203) 453-3890.

Arash Khazeni, a doctoral student in the Department of History, will discuss Elaine Sciolino's book "Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran" at a Books Sandwiched In discussion on Thursday, March 8. Sponsored by the New Haven Free Public Library, the talk will take place 12:10-12:50 p.m. at United Church on the Green, corner of Temple and Elm streets. Participants are invited to bring a lunch; coffee, tea and cookies will be available for purchase before the talk in the church basement.

Alan Mermann, a clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics and an associate in the Chaplain's Office, will discuss his new book, "The Renaissance of American Medicine," on Thursday, March 29, at 5:30 p.m. in the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway. In this book, Mermann's third, he traces the careers of innovative American doctors between 1830 and 1920.

The Women's Campaign School (WCS) at Yale is sponsoring its second annual "Dinner of Champions," which will take place on Saturday, June 9, 6- 9 p.m. at a private residence at 19 Stony Point in Westport. Members of WCS's board of directors, WCS alumnae and distinguished guests will attend.

Robert J. Sternberg, the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, was recently awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Paris V and the University of Cyprus. This month he will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leuven. He previously received an honorary doctorate from the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. These honors recognize Sternberg's theory and research on human intelligence.

On Jan. 11 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Vladimir Rokhlin, professor of computer science and mathematics, was awarded the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research, one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. Rokhlin and co-author Leslie Greengard of New York University were honored for their paper titled "A Fast Algorithm for Particle Simulations," published in the Journal of Computational Physics. Two other Yale professors were prominent participants at the meetings, which took place in New Orleans. Igor B. Frenkel, professor of mathematics, delivered an American Mathematical SocietyInvited Address on "From Platonic Solids to Affine Lie Algebras and Beyond." Roger Howe, the Frederick Phineas Rose Professor of Mathematics, participated in two panel discussions on the education and preparation of math teachers.

Stanley Weinstein, professor of East Asian languages and literatures, donated his collection of 10,658 books on Buddhism to the University of Virginia. One of America's top collections of Buddhist literature, it includes 19th- and 20th-century publications focusing on Buddhism in China and Japan, books on other East Asian religions and rare woodblock-printed books.

Harry Wasserman, the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, was honored at the Yale Summer Programs and Conference Services and English Language Institute January open house for contributing his paintings of Yale to the summer programs catalogue over the past 10 years. Other Yale staff recognized at the event were Ian Shapiro, chair of Yale's political science department, for garnering very favorable reviews for his summer courses over the past several years, and William Whobrey, assistant professor of Germanic languages and literatures, the new director of summer programs.

There will be a memorial service on Friday, March 9, for Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann, the John Rodman Paul Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, who died on Jan. 11 at the age of 89. Friends and colleagues of Dr. Horstmann will gather to pay tribute to her life and work at 4 p.m. that day in the Historical Library of the School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The first woman to be appointed a professor at the medical school, Dr. Horstmann played a crucial role in the development of the oral polio vaccine. She was also the first woman to hold a chair in epidemiology and public health at Yale.

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Study shows cocaine can harm brain permanently

Forums explore democracy on local level

Director Spike Lee slams 'same old' black stereotypes in today's films

Head of NFL explains the economics of running a football league

Brooks appointed to Sterling Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics

YCIAS awarded Carnegie grant to support study of globalization

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