Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 26, 2001

Volume 30, Number 8

Environmental Science Center opening Oct. 26

Tours and a formal dedication ceremony will mark the opening of the Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center on Friday, Oct. 26.

The new facility, which is located at 21 Sachem St., will house interdisciplinary research in the earth and environmental sciences, as well as a climate-controlled area for the storage and preservation of the most fragile specimens in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

The building is named for the Yale College Class of 1954, which contributed $25 million toward construction of the new center. The generosity of Edward P. Bass '68 also made the facility possible.

Faculty will lead tours of the facility beginning at 2 p.m. on Friday. There will be a formal dedication ceremony outdoors at 4 p.m. Featured speakers will be President Richard C. Levin; Provost Alison Richard; Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Richard Burger, director of the Peabody Museum; Karl Turekian, director of the Institute of Biospheric Studies; Edward P. Bass '68; and Richard Gilder '54, representing the his college class.

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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'

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