Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 26, 2001

Volume 30, Number 8

Campus Notes

Joanne B. Freeman, assistant professor of history, will sign copies of her book, "Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic," on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 4-5:30 p.m. at Book Haven, 290 York St. Refreshments will be served. For more information or to reserve a copy of the book, call (203) 787-2848.

Dr. James P. Comer, the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry and associate dean of the Child Study Center, will be honored by Covenant to Care with a Distinguished Service Award on Thursday, Nov. 15, 5-7 p.m. at the Farmington Club, 162 Town Farm Road, Farmington. Other honorees include Elaine Zimmerman, executive director of Connecticut Commission on Children, and Miriam Therese Winter, a medical mission sister. All three are being recognized for demonstrating leadership, passion and vision through their work in enhancing the quality of lives of Connecticut's most vulnerable children. Tickets to the awards ceremony are $75, all of which is tax-deductible. For information, contact Cynthia Bartholomew at (860) 243-1806 or info@covenanttocare.org.

Timothy Gregoire, the J.P. Weyerhaeuser Jr. Professor of Forest Management, has been elected president of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society. He will serve as president-elect next year and as president in 2003. Founded more than 50 years ago, the International Biometric Society promotes biological science through the development of quantitative theories and the application, development and dissemination of effective mathematical and statistical techniques.

John Mack Faragher, the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History, and Robert V. Hine have won the Caughey Western History Association Prize for their book "The American West: A New Interpretive History," published this year by the Yale University Press. The prize is given annually for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West.

President Richard C. Levin announced the appointment of Jeffrey Alexander, professor of sociology, as acting chair of the Department of Sociology during the 2001-2002 spring semester. Alexander will replace Ivan Szelenyi, who will be on a leave of absence.

Jennifer Tipton, professor (adjunct) and lighting design adviser at the School of Drama, was named the winner of the 2001 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which consists of about $250,000 and a silver medallion. Other winners of the Gish Prize, who are chosen by a committee, have included Merce Cunningham, Arthur Miller, Isabel Allende and Bob Dylan. Tipton will receive her award on Nov. 1 at the Hudson Theater in New York City.

Curtis W. Lambrecht, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, was named a 2001-2002 Peace Scholar in a competition sponsored by the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program of the U.S. Institute of Peace. One of ten students selected, he will receive a $17,000 fellowship to assist in research for his dissertation on "Violence in Burmese State-Making: The Making of a Human Rights Pariah."

President Richard C. Levin announced the appointment of three department chairs. Tso-Ping Ma, professor of electrical engineering, was appointed chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering for a term of three years; he replaces Mark Reed. Patrick McCreless, professor of music theory, was appointed chair of the Department of Music for a term of three years; he replaces Ellen Rosand. Michael Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was appointed chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; he replaces Günter Wagner. All of the appointments were effective July 1.

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

Study shows diet is linked to growing form of cancer

'Architecture or Revolution' recalls years of turbulence, innovation

Locke recalls Yale years, defends affirmative action in Chubb Lecture

Alumni to ponder intersection of law and technology

Legal scholar John Langbein is named Sterling Professor

Historian Cynthia Russett is appointed Larned Professor

Conference honors economist William Brainard

Environmental Science Center opening Oct. 26

Event to celebrate 'Cultures of Native America'

Drama school stages Chekhov's 'compassionate meditation'

Yale Opera students to perform scenes from famous operas

'Practical Logic' series opens with talk on challenge of intersexuality

Talks about Sept. 11 aftermath to focus on questions of gender

Symposium to explore 'material culture' of Colonial New York

Project teaches Head Start parents about computers, cancer

Conservation of biodiversity in China is subject of talk

Stephen Bright to speak at tea

Getting the low-down on downtown

Honoring an 'unsung hero'

Campus Notes