A Red Cross blood drive will be held 9 a.m.-1:45 p.m. on Friday, April 12, adjacent to Yale University Health Services (YUHS), 17 Hillhouse Ave.
To give blood individuals must be healthy and at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, and not have donated blood in the last 56 days or donated double red cells in the last 112 days. There is no upper age limit. Individuals may not give blood if they have received notification from the American Red Cross or any other blood collection organization asking them not to do so. For other eligibility questions, call the Red Cross at (203) 881-5074.
Those who meet the eligibility requirements should call (203) 432-1826 to make an appointment.
The first American showing of the film "Bucharest Express" will take place on Tuesday, April 2, at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
"Bucharest Express," a film by SawHorse Productions of Hamden, portrays the fictionalized experiences of an intrepid pair of journalists working to expose the horrors of sex slave trafficking in Eastern Europe. The showing is sponsored by the European Studies Council of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. For more information, call (203) 432-3413.
Applications from advanced undergraduate, graduate and medical students are now being accepted for a summer fellowship program offered by CENTURY/TTURC.
CENTURY is the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale. TTURC, a part of CENTURY, is the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center. The goal of CENTURY/TTURC is to investigate and improve the treatment of tobacco dependence by working cooperatively across disciplines.
The fellowship is designed to increase students' knowledge about research in the area of tobacco/nicotine addiction. The three-month fellowship will allow students to work with a mentor from the CENTURY faculty on a tobacco- or nicotine-related research project. At the end of the fellowship period, they will be asked to present their research to the CENTURY faculty and may also be given the opportunity to attend and present their findings at the annual conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
Fellows will receive $1,000 a month for three months and a one-time housing stipend of $800. The fellowship can run for May, June, July or June, July, August.
Application information may be obtained by contacting Jane Murray at (203) 974-7591 or jane.murray@yale.edu. The deadline for applications is April 15. Decisions will be made by the end of April.
The Yale University Art Gallery is offering a new thematic tour program, titled "Angles on Art."
The program will feature tours by student guides who will offer their own connective and perspective angles on artworks in the galleries. Tours, which will last 45 minutes, will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons through April 7. Friday tours will begin at 3:30 p.m.; Saturday tours will begin at 3 p.m.; and Sunday tours will begin at 4 p.m.
All tours meet at the reception desk on the first floor of the gallery. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-0611.
The Julia Rusinek Memorial Run will begin at 9 a.m. on Sunday, April 14.
The event is held to honor the memory of Julia Rusinek, who was a Yale senior at the time of her death in July 1999. The four-mile race begins and ends at Cross Campus. Participants are welcome to walk or jog as well as run. Proceeds will benefit Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP). For more information, visit the website at www.juliarun.org.
This summer, pianist Boris Berman, adjunct professor at the School of Music, will take a small group of advanced students to an 18th-century Villa Medici in Biosco, Italy, for intensive instruction on the piano.
The students, mostly current and former students at the School of Music, will have access to the villa's noted collection of 18th- and 19th-century pianos. A limited number of auditors will also be admitted. For further information, contact the professor by sending an e-mail to boris.berman@yale.edu.
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