Paolo Valesio, professor of Italian, will present "The Square of Massacred Prayers," a multimedia performance including drama, dance and song June 13-16 at 8:30 p.m. in Danspace of St. Mark's Church, corner of 10th Street and 2nd Avenue, in New York City. For more information about the event, which is free and open to the public, call (203) 432-0595. In other news, Valesio has been named honorary president of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) for the academic year 2002-2003. He will address AAIS members at the group's next meeting in March 2003 at Georgetown University.
The School of Nursing celebrated National Nurses Week, May 6-12, by sponsoring an art contest for children. Over 440 drawings depicting "what nurses do through the eyes of elementary school children" were submitted from 13 New Haven area schools. The panel of judges included Linda Friedlaender, curator of education at the Yale Center for British Art; Dr. Thomas Duffy, professor of internal medicine (hematology); nurse and artist Mary Kaye DeVita; Lisa Rovello, director of development for the Arts Council of Greater New Haven; Brooke Spadaccino, staff nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH); and Stephanie Bilskis, nurse manager at YNHH. Four winners were selected: Gabriela DeJesus, a fifth-grader at Mauro School; Giuliana Gearty, a second-grader at Worthington Hooker School; Mara Rothman, a first-grader at Edgewood School; and Sean Foley, a first-grader at Edgewood School. Three students received honorable mentions: Tyler Baker, a second-grader at Worthington Hooker School; Stephaine Caruso, a kindergartener at Bishop Woods School; and Alesia Corley, a fifth-grader at Beecher Elm School.
Robert Apfel, the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will receive a gold medal from the Acoustical Society of America at the group's bi-annual meeting in Pittsburgh in June. Apfel is being honored "for fundamental contributions to physical acoustics and biomedical ultrasound and innovative leadership in electronic publishing."
Csaba Horváth, the Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering, was selected as the sole receiver of the Torbern Bergman Medal in 2003 by the Analytical Section of the Swedish Chemical Society. Horváth will present the Medal Lecture in Stockholm in June 2003. An honorarium accompanies the medal.
A. Stephen Morse, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received the 2002 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Award from Purdue University.
Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree at Columbia University's commencement on May 22. Other honorary degree recipients included former Senator George Mitchell, Columbia University President-Elect Lee C. Bollinger, Brown University President Ruth Simmons, neuropsychologist Brenda Miller, author Joan Didion and Jack Beeson, Columbia's MacDowell Professor Emeritus of Music.
Willie Ruff, adjunct professor at the School of Music, presented the commencement address and received an honorary degree from Albertus Magnus College during the school's graduation exercises on May 19. He was honored "for his dedication to teaching and music, and especially for his work as the founding director of the Duke Ellington Fellowship, a program that for 30 years has brought legendary jazz musicians into New Haven schools to teach more than 150,000 children." In lieu of the traditional commencement address, Ruff offered a musical interlude on bass and French horn in memory of those who died on Sept. 11 and to honor those involved in rescue efforts; he was accompanied by his longtime collaborator, pianist Dwike Mitchell.
Three of Yale's museums received first-, second- and third-place honors in the New Haven Advocate's Best of New Haven 2002 Reader's Poll. The Peabody Museum of Natural History was selected "Best Museum/Gallery," followed by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.
Paula E. Hyman, the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters on May 13 at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Hyman also delivered the commencement address, titled "Jewish Identity on the Global Frontier."
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment or reappointment of the following faculty members: Jeffrey C. Alexander, professor of sociology, as chair of the Department of Sociology for a term of two years; Charles Bailyn, professor of astronomy, as chair of the Department of Astronomy for a term of three years; R. Howard Bloch, the Augustus R. Street Professor of French, as director of the Division of the Humanities for a term of three years; Dr. H. Kim Bottomly, professor of immunobiology, dermatology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology, as director of the Division of the Biological Sciences for a term of three years; Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, as chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for a term of three years; John Geanakoplos, the James Tobin Professor of Economics, as director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics for a term of three years; Paul Gilroy, professor of sociology and African American studies, as chair of the Department of African American Studies for a term of three years; Paul Hudak, professor of computer science, as chair of the Department of Computer Science for a term of three years; Dale Martin, professor of religious studies, as chair of the Department of Religious Studies for a term of three years; Ian Shapiro, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science, as chair of the Department of Political Science for a term of three years; and John Walz, professor of chemical engineering, as chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering for a term of three years. Their new terms are effective July 1.
Jerome L. Singer, professor in the Department of Psychology and at the Child Study Center, has been elected president of the Division of Psychology and the Arts of the American Psychological Association.
Molly Silfen '02 of Calhoun College was the recipient of this year's New Haven American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Chapter Award. Beth Anne Bennett, lecturer in mechanical engineering at Yale and treasurer of the New Haven ASME chapter, presented the award to Silfen at a March 20 ceremony held at Fairfield University.
Yale trustee Dr. Benjamin S. Carson '73 received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida, during the school's spring commencement ceremony on April 22. Carson also presented the commencement address.
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