Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 5, 2002

Volume 30, Number 24

Campus Notes

The Women's Campaign School at Yale is sponsoring an all-day lobbying program on Saturday, April 6, at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York. The $95 fee will include training materials, continental breakfast and a networking luncheon. For more information, visit www.wcsyale.org, send e-mail to wcsyale@aol.com or call (800) ELECTS-U.

Dr. Dennis L. Cooper, associate professor of internal medicine, medical oncology and surgery, will present a talk titled "Managing Myeloma" on Wednesday, April 10, at 6 p.m. in the East Pavilion Cafeteria of the Yale-New Haven Hospital, 20 York St. The lecture is free, but reservations should be made by calling (203) 688-2000. The event is sponsored by the Yale Cancer Center.

The Learning Center will be holding a "Life Balance Retreat" on Friday, April 12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Mercy Center in Madison. The fee is $110 for the general public and $90 for members of the Yale community. For more information or to register, visit www.yale.edu/learningcenter.

Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, will receive the International Prize of Catalonia from the city of Barcelona on May 22. Previous winners have included Karl Popper, Jacques Cousteau, Mstislav Rostropovich, Doris Lessing, Vaclav Havel and Richard von Weizsacker. The prize includes 80,000 Euro dollars and an 11-day tour of Catalonia. Bloom will also participate in a conversation with Nobel Prize-winning novelist José Saramago at The New York Public Library on Tuesday, April 16. Tickets to this event are $7-$10 and may be purchased by calling (212) 930-0571. For more information, call (212) 930-0855 or visit www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/ forum5.html.

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

Unexplained deaths 'relatively' common in U.S., study says

Counselor to U.S. presidents offers advice to tomorrow's leaders

Chubb Fellowship hosting visit by salsa star Palmieri

Innovative entrepreneurs to speak at YES summit

Journalist to discuss how media portrays issues of faith

Event probes fundamentalist reactions to modernity

Surgeon trustee will give talk to city youths

Yale cosponsoring city school's entry in robotics competition

Yale polo team hosting first Atlantic Cup tournament

Bromley honored by physics society

Yale Rep features noted humorist of Lake Wobegan

AIDS Science Day to highlight Yale, community collaborations

Concert honors memory of composer Druckman

International tribunal is topic of discussion

Yale Opera production is a retelling of Bizet's 'Carmen'

Concert of 'Star Wars' music marks conductor's Yale anniversary

Sitar virtuosa to perform in Woolsey Hall

Conference to explore innovations in study of ancient Aegean

Former director of Holocaust Museum to speak at master's tea

Campus Notes