Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 19, 2002

Volume 30, Number 26

Gender Studies prizes

The Women's & Gender Studies Program is accepting applications for three awards.

The Steere Prize in Women's & Gender Studies awards $100 for excellence in scholarship gained by focusing on women or gender roles and/or by employing feminist theory.

The Lily Rosen Prize in Women's Health awards $100 to an undergraduate in Yale College for the best essay that contributes to knowledge about women's health. The essay may be in any field of the humanities or of the social, physical or natural sciences and may deal with any aspect of or issue in women's physical or mental health.

The Elga Ruth Wasserman Summer Project awards a $100 grant to a Yale undergraduate for a summer project, whether academic or activist, on women, gender or a related topic.

Two copies of essays or proposals should be submitted to the Women's & Gender Studies office, 315 WLH, 100 Wall St., by Friday, April 19. Essays do not need to be nominated; they may be submitted by students themselves. For more information, call (203) 432-0845.

Children's riding programs

The Department of Athletics is accepting applications for children's riding programs to be held this summer at the Polo and Equestrian Center.

Children aged 9-16 years from the Yale and New Haven communities are eligible. There will also be half-day programs for children aged 5-8 years. For more information, call (203) 432-1431.

"Spring into Health Fair"

The Yale Medical Professional Schools will present the second annual "Spring into Health Fair" on Saturday, April 20, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., on Old Campus; the rain location will be Dwight Hall, 67 High St.

Free information for adults and children of the New Haven community will be available. Topics will include domestic violence, HIV and STDs, HUSKY, smoking cessation, nutrition, dental health, blood pressure screening, home safety and substance abuse. A prize giveaway, including tickets to the New Haven Ravens, will also be featured.

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

For first time, applicants get admissions news online

Communiversity Day will be held April 20

Study: Children's lives not improved by welfare reform

Statesman warns victory in Afghanistan is . . .

Surgeon/trustee tells youngsters: Don't make excuses

F&ES adding four new assistant professors to faculty

'Journalists and Terrorism' is focus of Poynter talk

Conference to explore Agent Orange's effect . . .

IN FOCUS: Bright Bodies Program

Yale Rep staging tale about 'the sacrifice of innocence'

Gowin's aerial images capture human abuse of Earth

Related exhibits offer views of the changing American landscape

Scholar to discuss Freud's view of the biblical Moses

Theme of sacrifice in biblical literature is explored in exhibit

Leader in genome sequencing to speak at medical school

Benefit art auction will feature works by Yale faculty artists

Concert features musical portrait of 'Three Places in New Haven'

Yale scientists begin new round of tests on cocaine vaccine

Memorial service for James Tobin

Frontiers of Science

Online parking renewals offered again

Campus Notes