Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 6, 2001

Volume 29, Number 25

Campus Notes

Pamela J. Delphenich, University planner, has been elected to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows, an honor awarded to AIA members who have made contributions of national significance to the profession. She and other new fellows, who are entitled to use the designation "FAIA" following their names, will be inducted in the College of Fellows at the 2001 AIA national convention in Denver on May 18. Delphenich was honored for her contributions to the development of priorities, strategies and policies for all physical planning and design at Yale.

Ilona Kickbusch, professor of epidemiology and public health, was appointed New Century Scholar Distinguished Leader of a new Fulbright Scholar Program initiative, the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program (NCS). The NCS will bring together annually over the next three years 25-30 research scholars and professionals from the United States and around the world to engage in multidisciplinary collaboration on a topic of substantial global significance. For the academic year 20012002, the research focus will be "Challenges of Health in a Borderless World." Kickbusch is also director of the Division of International Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine.

Gregory Margulis, the Erastus L. DeForest Professor of Mathematics, has been appointed chair of the Department of Mathematics. DeForest will replace Peter Jones as chair effective July 1 for a term of three years.

Robert Farris Thompson, the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art and master of Timothy Dwight College, presented keynote addresses at two conferences this past month. He discussed "New York: The Secret African City" at the City University of New York and New York University joint conference "Local Music/ Global Connections; New York City at the Millennium" on March 9. On March 29, he addressed a conference of the art historians of the United Kingdom at Oxford University in Oxford, England.

Robin W. Winks, the Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History, was selected to chair the new State of the National Parks advisory board. The State of the Parks project, which will take five years and will have a nationwide advisory commission, will assess the quality of management and protection of 100 selected indicative units of the National Park System of the United States. This is the second consecutive time that a member of the Yale faculty has chaired the State of the Parks commission. The last report, submitted in 1989, was chaired by John C. Gordon, the Pinchot Professor in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

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

Scientists get $9 million from NIDA to study genetics of addiction

British Library administrator to be new Yale Librarian

Yale tops nation in number of Truman Scholars

Ex-Treasury Department official named director of public affairs

Archive and initiative honor alumnus' art and activism

Old Campus will be a festival of fun and learning for annual Communiversity Day

The Alps have stayed same size for 15 million years, study finds

Former U.S. trade representative to discuss 'trade policy . . .'

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