The Department of Mathematics will award the Barge and Runk prizes on the basis of a competitive exam that is open to sophomores and freshmen.
The exam will be given 1-4 p.m. on Friday, April 26, in Rm. 201, Leet Oliver Memorial Hall, 12 Hillhouse Ave. Students interested in taking the exam should sign up with Bernadette Alston-Facey in Rm. 434, Dunham Laboratory, 10 Hillhouse Ave.
In addition, undergraduates majoring in mathematics who wish to pursue their studies during the summer are eligible to compete for the John Alan Lewis Prize. A letter describing plans for summer study should be submitted to Professor Efim Zelmanov, director of undergraduate studies in mathematics, before Friday, April 19.
For more information about these prizes, call (203) 432-7792.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is accepting applications for the Bildner Prizes in Latin American Languages and Literature for Yale undergraduates.
The prizes are awarded for "high achievement in the Spanish and Portuguese languages and in Latin American literature." Four prizes of $400 and a travel prize of $900 will be awarded. The deadline for submitting applications is Wednesday, April 17.
For complete information, contact Professor Cristina Moreiras Menor at (203) 432-5439, Professor K. David Jackson at (203) 432-7608 or Ginny Gutierrez at (203) 432-5439.
The African American Cultural Center is seeking volunteer chefs for its first annual "Taste the Memories" benefit.
The event will take place noon-4 p.m. on Saturday, April 13 at the center, located at 211 Park St. The benefit will feature dishes cooked and served by the volunteers, as well as a cookbook that will contain the chefs' memories associated with the food. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children, available at the door. Proceeds will benefit Helping Our Ladies Learn and Achieve (HOLLA), a mentoring program for young women in the New Haven community.
For more information, contact Lyneise Williams at (203) 432-4132 or send e-mail to lyneise.williams@yale.edu.
The 18th Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize will be awarded by the School of Art at this year's commencement ceremonies to an undergraduate or graduate woman who has pursued courses in the field of studio art at Yale, including drawing, filmmaking, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking or sculpture.
The prize, which carries an award of $13,500, is open to both majors and nonmajors.
The prize seeks to encourage the woman who "demonstrates a developing consciousness, a personal vision, and a spirit of search, regardless of whether she has evolved a concrete realization of that vision; a woman who shows promise of fulfilling Blair Dickinson's (Yale '74) concept of an artist as suggested by the following passage from her journal: 'Ability to find spiritually rich occurrences in the world. Observer. Critic. Isolator. One who points to a moment and reveals its importance. Ability to cross over between areas of thought and to ascend and descend.'"
Applicants must submit a one-page statement of not more than 500 words describing their goals, their work and the ideas it represents; and not more than 10 slides of their work. The slides should relate to the statement, as the statement will be read aloud while they are shown. Videocassettes, Macintosh CD-ROMs and þoppy disks may also be submitted. Applications are due by April 30 and should be sent to the chairperson, Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize Committee, Yale University School of Art, Rm. 122, 1156 Chapel St., New Haven, CT 06520-8339.
The Yale Child Conduct Clinic is currently accepting children between the ages of 2 and 13-1/2 who are displaying behavioral problems such as lying, disobeying parents, swearing, cheating, not getting along with others and getting into trouble at school. For more information, call (203) 432-9993.
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