Amy Pryor, a graduate student in the Department of Painting/Printmaking at the School of Art, is one of three featured artists in the exhibition "Economy of Means" at untitled(space), 220 College St., through Oct. 7. Pryor will show her quilt-like paintings made entirely from recycled mail and will also work on a performance piece in the window of the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. For more information, contact Karen Dow at (203) 772-2709 or karen@untitledspace.org.
Paintings by ten Yale graduates will be featured in "Ten Figurative Painters in New England: An Artist's Choice," an exhibition curated by William Bailey, the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Painting, at the Lyme Art Association galleries in Old Lyme. The exhibition, co-sponsored by Yale, will open on Sunday, Nov. 5. The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday, noon-4:30 p.m., and Sunday, 1-4:30 p.m. A Gala Preview Party, with tours led by Bailey and commentary by each of the exhibited artists, is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 4; tickets are $75 or $125 for couples. For more information, call (860) 434-7802.
Gay Story Hamilton, chair of the Council of Elders of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, was named to the board of directors of the Endangered Language Fund (ELF), a nonprofit organization affiliated with Yale's Department of Linguistics. The ELF is devoted to the scientific study of endangered languages and the support of native efforts to maintain those languages. As editor-in-chief of the Mohegan Press, which recently produced a grammar and a dictionary of the Mohegan language, Hamilton is involved in her tribe's effort at reviving its language.
Roberto González Echevarría, chair of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, was awarded a doctorate honoris causa from his alma mater, the University of South Florida, on August 12.
Joseph Soares, associate professor of sociology, won the best book prize from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. His book, "The Decline of Privilege," was selected out of 24 books in this year's competition.
For her research on "Ion Channel Structure and Function," Lise R. Heginbotham, assistant professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, was selected as a 2000 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The award is given to promising junior faculty members at medical schools and research institutions across the country, and includes $240,000 for work in the biomedical sciences over a four-year period. Twenty scholars were named by the Pew Charitable Trusts this year.
Heping Zhang, associate professor of public health (biostatistics), was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for outstanding service to and leadership in the field of statistical science. Zhang, one of 55 members accorded the honor on August 15, was recognized for significant contributions to methodology in nonparametric classification and nonlinear regression, for influential work in statistical genetics, and for applications in epidemiology and psychiatry.
Willem Maas, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science, was one of seven scholars selected by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to receive a Federalism and the Federations Research Grant. Maas is researching European Union citizenship.
Richard Wood, dean of the Divinity School, was elected on July 13 to serve on the Southern Methodist University board of trustees. Wood was elected along with 11 other new trustees to four-year terms by the South Central Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church.
Thomas M. Greene, the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, will spend the fall semester of the 2000-2001 academic year as the William Allan Neilson Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Smith College. As a visiting Neilson Professor, Greene will present a series of four public lectures titled "Calling from Diffusion: Hermeneutics of the Promenade," about promenade poems from Petrarch to Amy Clampitt.
Dr. Shachar Tauber, associate clinical professor of ophthalmology, was recognized as a leading refractive surgeon in the laser vision correction industry and inducted into the Summit Autonomous Society (SAS). For performing over 1,000 laser vision correction procedures in the past year, Tauber received the SAS Silver Award at a dinner in Boston during the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery conference.
R. Bryan Sutton, postdoctoral associate of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, was one of 25 American and Canadian biomedical scientists to receive a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences for his research on "Biophysical and Structural Investigation of Ca+2 in Neurotransmitter Release." These career awards, from $445,000 for four years to $574,000 for six years, are given to promising researchers early in their careers to help them make the transition to becoming independent investigators.
The Center of Economic Studies at El Colegio de Mexico honored Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and the Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, this past May by hosting a festschrift colloquium on "The Mexican Economy at the End of the Century: Prospects and Realities." On the occasion of the festschrift, Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico, received Ranis at his official residence, Los Pinos. Zedillo, a former student of Ranis, received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1981. During a previous stay at the University as a visiting professor in 1970-71, Ranis published a paper titled "Is the Mexican Miracle Turning Sour?" which has since been hailed by Mexican economists for pinpointing structural problems that emerged in later years.
A portrait of Dr. Aaron Lerner, the first chair of the Department of Dermatology and the first researcher to isolate the hormone melatonin, was unveiled on Thursday, Sept. 21, the official day of Lerner's retirement and also his 80th birthday. Lerner has had a longstanding interest in pigment and pigment disorders. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and received the prestigious Annenberg Award. The portrait, which will hang in the dermatology department library, was painted by Tony Falcone of Prospect; a collection of portraits by Falcone is currently on display at the Graduate Club.
James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has been selected by the National Academies -- the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine -- to serve on a new Coordinating Committee for the Transition to Sustainability. The committee's task will be to provide advice on how the full potential of the scientific and technical communities can be used to exert creative leadership through national and international experiments, in pursuit of a successful transition to sustainability in this new century.
The American Chemical Society's Division of Computers in Chemistry has elected William Jorgensen, the Conkey P. Whitehead Professor of Chemistry, as chair-elect for 2001. Jorgensen will serve on the division's executive committee in 2001, serve as chair of the division in 2002 and as past-chair in 2003.
Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, an assistant professor of political science, was one of 19 people honored by the American Political Science Association for scholarly contributions to the field. Grzymala-Busse received the Gabriel A. Almond Award for her dissertation in the field of comparative politics, "Redeeming the Past: The Regeneration of the Communist Successor Parties in East and Central Europe after 1989."
Yale University's School of Medicine Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) was one of ten FMIGs to receive Program of Excellence Awards from the American Academy of Family Physicians for their efforts in stimulating interest in family medicine. The role of a FMIG is to provide information about family practice to medical students and encourage more students to choose family practice as their specialty. The award was presented to those groups who exhibited exemplary efforts in infrastructure, student involvement and retention, family practice advocacy, and community outreach and patient advocacy.
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Edwin Duval, professor of French, as chair of the Department of French for a term of three and a half years effective immediately. Duval succeeds Christopher Miller.
Frederic M. Richards, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology and Biophysics and senior research scientist of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, will receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Biophysical Society. Richards will present a lecture at the society's 2001 annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, and will be recognized at an awards ceremony on Feb. 19.
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