The Yale Center for British Art is sponsoring a bus trip to the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington on Friday, June 22. Visitors will tour the library's 18th-century collections with the director and staff, and enjoy tea and the grounds. Transportation will be provided for the 1:305:30 p.m. trip. Space is limited and pre-registration is required by contacting Liz Kosturko at (203) 432-2858. There is a $5 fee for adults and $3 fee for students.
Harry Wasserman, the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson on May 12. The award recognized Wasserman for strengthening chemistry at the University of Arizona as a visiting professor and for mentoring senior, mid-career and newly appointed professors as well as graduate and postdoctoral students. The award citation reads: "For his many outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry and his support of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Arizona."
As an addendum to a story in the May 18 issue of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar, the Yale University Women's Organization (YUWO) awarded additional scholarships to the following women to resume their formal educations or enhance or change careers: Maria Mortali, Carol Parker-Strong, Laurie Siraco, Valerie Tanner and Lorena Venegas. The awards were presented at YUWO's annual meeting on May 2 at the New Haven Country Club.
The Biancamaria Finzi-Contini Calabresi Prize for the best senior essay in comparative literature was awarded to Madhusudan Reddy Pocha for her essay "Mapping Thomas Sutpen and Simón Bolívar: Exploring Subjectivity in the Caribbean of 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'The General in his Labyrinth.'"
The Alvin B. Kernan prize for the best senior essay in the literature major was jointly awarded to Margaret Miller for her essay "Death and the Cinema in Gilles and 'A Zed and Two Noughts'" and Brian Mullin for his essay "'Why That Said Practically Everything': Levels of Narrative Immersion and Authorial Control in the Late Novels of Henry James."
Students from the School of Music received four of the 19 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards presented on May 24 in New York City. The Yale winners were John Kaefer, Daniel Kellogg, Nancy Kho and Gregory Spears. In addition, Nathan Michel of the School of Music and Joshua Penman of the Yale College Class of 2001 received honorable mentions. The Morton Gould Young Composer Awards recognize and encourage gifted young composers under the age of 30 whose works are selected through a juried national competition.
A letter recommending that current National Institutes of Health guidelines on stem cell research remain intact was issued by Yale's Interdisciplinary Bioethics Committee. The letter, sent to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson on May 9, was signed by 13 members of the Faculty Working Group on the Ethics of Stem Cell Research: Gene Outka, the Dwight Professor of Philosophy and Christian Ethics; John Booss, professor of neurology and laboratory medicine; Robert Bruce of the Divinity School and the School of Medicine; Robert A. Burt, the Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law; Thomas P. Duffy, professor of internal medicine/hematology; Margaret A. Farley, the Stark Professor of Christian Ethics; Arthur W. Galston, the Eaton Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Myron Genel, professor of pediatrics and associate dean of government and community affairs at the School of Medicine; Robert J. Levine, professor of medicine; Maurice J. Mahoney, professor of genetics and obstetrics and gynecology, and chair of the Human Investigation Committee; Theodore R. Marmor, professor in the School of Management; Pasko Rakic, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience, and professor and chair of the Department of Neurobiology; Dennis D. Spencer, the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery; and the Reverend John L. Young, associate clinical professor of psychology.
Peter B. Moore, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry, and Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, received the 30th annual Rosensteil Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research at a ceremony held on April 26 at Brandeis University. The scientists, along with Harry F. Noller Jr. of the University of California at Santa Cruz, were honored for their discovery that peptide bond formation on the ribosome is catalyzed exclusively by ribosomal RNA. Their work provides the first proof that peptide bonds formed in nascent proteins are RNA-driven. As ribosome mechanisms and RNA functions are illuminated, drug designers are given more concrete targets in their efforts to design drugs to treat specific diseases.
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