Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 2, 2001

Volume 30, Number 9

Campus Notes

Oral History, American Music, a project dedicated to the collection and preservation of audio and video interviews with American composers, has received a two-year grant of $100,000 from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. The collection, established over 30 years ago by its director, Vivian Perlis, is recognized as an important repository of source material. It includes over a thousand interviews with those who make our musical history, representing a wide range of musical composition in the 20th century.

Norma Thompson, associate professor of political science, will sign copies of her new book, "The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America" (Yale University Press), on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 45:30 p.m. at Book Haven, 290 York St. For more information or to reserve a copy of the book, call (203) 787-2848.

John Mack Faragher, the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, was awarded the Caughey Western History Association Prize for his book "The American West: A New Interpretive History" (Yale University Press, 2001), co-authored with Robert V. Hine. The prize is given annually by the Western History Association for the most distinguished book on the history of the American west.

A Sept. 30 benefit concert organized by Eric Kim '02 of the Musical Cure at Yale raised over $21,000 for the families of fallen policemen and firemen in the Sept. 11 tragedy. The event included performances by The Yale Cellos and the Whiffenpoofs, as well as UNITY, Steppin' Out and a group of bagpipers as the opening acts. A corporate sponsor matched 100% of all tickets sales up to $10,000.

Three Yale scientists were selected as Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholars in Global Infectious Diseases. Peter Cresswell, professor of immunobiology and dermatology, will receive funding for his study titled "Antiviral Effects of Interferon-Inducible Cytosolic Proteins." Dr. Keith A. Joiner, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and of epidemiology and public health and cell biology, and Dr. Elisabetta Ullu, professor of internal medicine (infectious diseases) and cell biology, will receive funding for their study, "Development of New Genetic Tools to Identify Nutrient Uptake Pathways in Malaria Parasites."

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

Yale formally dedicates Environmental Science Center

Team discovers fossil of 40-foot crocodile

Scientists develop otential vaccine for West Nile virus

Journalist considers gap between 'red' and 'blue' America

Michael Dove is appointed Musser Professor of Social Ecology

Thomas Graedel named Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology

Yale Art Gallery receives gift of major work by Courbet

U.S. Senator James Jeffords to give talk

Noted journalist James Fallows to present annual Fryer Lecture

Estrogen therapy ineffective in preventing stroke, study finds

Noted statistician Francis J. Anscombe dies

Influential physician Dr. Alvan Feinstein dies

Symposium to explore Palestinian and Israeli cinemas

Yale affiliates invited to serve as Thanksgiving hosts

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