Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 12, 2002

Volume 30, Number 25

Campus Notes

Robert J. Sternberg, the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education and director of the Yale Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise, was selected as the winner of the 2003 Career Achievement in Educational Psychology Award from the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association. The award is the highest honor given by the division. Sternberg also was recently announced as the winner of the 2002 Positive Psychology Distinguished Scholar Award from the Positive Psychology Network and was named a fellow of the Norwegian Royal Society of Sciences and Letters.

Gilbert Joseph, the Farnham Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, has been selected as the 2001-2002 winner of the Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award. The award, given annually by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, will be presented during the annual meeting in April. Joseph won the Graduate School's Faculty Mentoring Award in May 2000, the first year that award was given. In nominating Joseph for the Yale prize, one student wrote, "Gil Joseph is invested in his role as an adviser and dedicates extraordinary time and energy to his graduate students, their academic development and their professional future. Such a commitment is especially laudable considering that it comes from a first-rate scholar actively engaged in research and teaching who is also involved in a slew of academic conferences, societies and programs."

Three assistant professors from the Department of Political Science will sign copies of their new books at a reception hosted by Book Haven, 290 York St., on Monday, April 15, 4-5:30 p.m. The professors and their books are: M. Victoria Murillo, "Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions and Market Reforms in Latin America"; Anna Grzymala-Busse, "Redeeming the Communist Past"; and Pauline Jones Luong, "Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia." All three books were published by Cambridge University Press. Refreshments will be served at the reception. For information or to reserve a copy of a book, call (203) 787-2848.

Dr. Michele Barry, professor of medicine and public health and director of the School of Medicine Office of International Health, was awarded the Dr. Christopher Krogh Memorial Award by the International Health Medical Education Consortium in recognition of her "outstanding and dedicated leadership in health care for the underserved." Barry cofounded the International Health Residency Training Program with Dr. Frank Bia in 1981 and started the Mobile Community Health Van, which goes to soup kitchens, women-in-crisis centers and housing projects around New Haven where health care options are limited. This year Barry was elected president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, where she hopes to make a difference in inequities of access to drugs and research for the developing world's neglected diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness.

The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring a lecture, "Potential Drug Treatments and Transplantation Therapies for Parkinson's Disease," on Thursday, April 18. The lecture will be given by John D. Salamone, professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, at 8 p.m. in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs. The public is invited to this free event. For more information, call (203) 432-3113, ext. 2.

The Women's Campaign School at Yale (WCS) will hold its 2002 fundraiser celebration on Thursday, April 18, 6-9 p.m. at the Birchwood Country Club in Westport. Honorees will include Ann Richards, former governor of Texas; M. Jodi Rell, lieutenant governor of Connecticut; and WCS graduates Laurel Anderson and Allyson Stollenwerck. Tickets are $150; WCS graduates may purchase a limited supply of tickets for $75. For more information, call (800) ELECTS-U, fax (203) 734-7547, e-mail wcsyale@aol.com or visit www.wcsyale.org.

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

Zedillo named head of Center for Study of Globalization

Other International Initiatives at Yale University

SOM Institute to explore how corporations are regulated by world's governments

Journalists covering Latin America will discuss the region's 'global reach'

HUD secretary to visit as a Chubb Fellow

Visiting architect describes his creative process

In Focus: Yale Recycling

Exhibition features art by 'consummate storyteller'

Peabody receives grant for Machu Picchu exhibit

Difficult quest for black education explored in forum

Noted psychologist Neal E. Miller, pioneerin research on brain and behavior, dies

Study estimates the likelihood of stroke in elderly patients who have had heart attacks

Biotechnology companies are thriving in Connecticut with help from Yale science

Lecture to explore how biomaterials 'will change our lives'

Conference on 'God and the Ethics of Belief' pays tribute . . .

Event to explore latest research on mental illness

Gustav Ranis reappointed as Henry R. Luce Director of YCIAS

'Hot Flashes' explores world of womanhood after 50

Museum spearheading annual cleanup of New Haven Harbor

At the powwow

Transatlantic polo

Campus Notes