Yale Bulletin and Calendar

December 7, 2001

Volume 30, Number 13

Campus Notes

Benjamin Cashore, assistant professor of sustainable forestry at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, was awarded, with Steven Bernstein of the University of Toronto, the Canadian Political Science Association's John McMenemy Prize for best article published in 2000 in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Cashore and Bernstein won the prize for their article "Globalization, Four Paths of Internationalization and Domestic Policy Change: The Case of EcoForestry in British Columbia, Canada."

The School of Drama and the Yale Repertory Theatre announced the appointment of a new marketing director. Anne Trites will join its faculty and staff as assistant professor (adjunct) and marketing director effective January 2002. Trites currently operates her own marketing consultancy, serving clients in the corporate, social services and art sectors, including The Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She previously was director and director of marketing and development of The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario; director of marketing and development at Confederation Centre of the Arts; and marketing director for the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Trites will succeed Roxanne Moffitt.

Two Yale undergraduate students were selected to receive scholarships through the Connecticut State Department of Higher Education's Minority Teacher Incentive program. Priscilla Noriega, a senior in Pierson College, is majoring in English and working towards certification to teach English at the secondary school level. She tutors at Vincent Mauro Elementary School, is a member of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán and is a student recruitment coordinator. She will receive $5,000 for up to two years, some of which may be used for graduate school expenses. Rodnev Lapommeroy, a Timothy Dwight College junior, is studying psychology and working toward certification to teach secondary school history. A tutor of young children since high school, Lapommeroy continues to tutor while at Yale through the Ulysses S. Grant Program and is a member of Jumpstart, Americorps and the Yale Freshman Chorus. He will receive $5,000 for each of his junior and senior years. The Minority Teacher Incentive Grant program is open to juniors and seniors of Hispanic/Latino, Asian American, Native American and African American descent who are enrolled in Connecticut college and university teacher preparation programs.

President Richard C. Levin announced the reappointment of Karl Turekian as director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the appointment of Bryan Spinks as acting director of the Institute of Sacred Music. Turekian, the Benjamin Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics, will continue to serve as director through June 30, 2003. Spinks, chair and professor of liturgical studies at the Divinity School, will serve as acting director during the 20012002 spring semester while Margot Fassler is on a leave of absence.

Yale professors James C. Scott and Dale Basil Martin were awarded Fulbright grants to lecture and pursue academic research in Europe. Scott, the Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology and director of the Agrarian Studies Program, is in Oslo, Norway, conducting research on "Why the State is the Enemy of the People Who Move Around: State Projects of Sedentarization." Martin, professor of religious studies, is spending the fall semester at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark lecturing and researching "gender, sexuality and biblical interpretation."

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

Team to study common, but devastating brain virus

Theologian wins $200,000 award

Junior faculty members win University fellowships

Seasonal shopping market brings retailers to 'shop' New Haven

Historians both oppress and liberate the past, says Gaddis

Naomi Schor, noted French literature scholar and critic, dies suddenly

Medical students provide first line of care at clinic

Two researchers honored with election to Institute of Medicine

Galley of Gifts

ISPS talk to explore ethics of biotechnology, conservation

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes