Lloyd Richards, Professor Emeritus of Drama, will receive the 2002 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for his part in shaping modern theater and guiding some of today's leading voices to the stage. Richards will receive the honor -- a silver medallion and approximately $200,000 -- at an awards ceremony to be held on Oct. 30 at the Hudson Theatre, Millennium Broadway, in New York City. Playwright August Wilson and other veterans of the stage will be on hand to pay tribute and deliver remarks. There will also be a series of short performances for the evening's celebrations. The annual Gish Prize is one of the largest awards in the arts honoring outstanding talents across disciplines.
Robert Johnston, associate professor of history and of American studies, will receive the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association (SSHA) for his forthcoming work, "The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in the Progressive Era, Portland, Oregon." The award carries a prize of $1,000 and is given for "an especially meritorious first work
The Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation has contributed $1 million to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in honor of John Sinclair, an adjunct professor in the chronic diseases division of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Sinclair is a pioneer in the care and treatment of critically ill newborns. He co-edited a research text on neonatology, "Effective Care of the Newborn Infant," which is considered a seminal work in this field.
Dr. Wajahat Z. Mehal, assistant professor of internal medicine (digestive diseases), was one of the recipients of the 2002 American Gastroenterological Association/Miles and Shirley Fiterman Foundation Basic Research Awards. The awards support outstanding efforts in clinical research and recognize excellence in clinical research in hepatology, nutrition and/or gastroenterology. Mehal's research focuses on the immunologenetics of autoimmune liver diseases and the role of the healthy liver in regulating T cell death in the liver.
Dr. R. Lawrence Moss has joined the staff at the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital as surgeon-in-chief. Dr. Moss is a general, thoracic and laparoscopic pediatric surgeon and an associate professor of pediatrics and surgery at the School of Medicine. His most recent appointments were at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, California, where he was associate professor of surgery and pediatrics, surgical director of the pediatric intensive care unit and the ECMO program. In addition, he was chief of pediatric surgery and surgical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
David A.D. Evans, assistant professor of geology & geophysics, is a recipient of the 2002 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. The award carries an unrestricted grant of $625,000 over five years. The goal of the fellowship program is to develop scientific leaders, further the work of promising young scientists and engineers, encourage networking among these researchers and support efforts to attract talented graduate students into university research in the United States. One hundred individuals were nominated by their university presidents and twenty were chosen as fellows.
Lorraine Roseman received the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services award on Sept. 25 for the creation of Art Place at the Yale Physicians Building, 800 Howard Ave.
Yale University Press has announced two new promotions. Patricia Fidler, formerly Executive Editor of Art Books, is now Publisher for Art Books and Manager of the Art Book Workshop. Larisa Heimert has been promoted to Executive Editor for History and Trade Publishing from Acquiring Editor for history and literary studies.
Kaveh Khoshnood,, assistant professor of epidemiology and public health, spoke at a Congressional Roundtable on "HIV/AIDS and Drug Use in Iran: Opportunities for Partnership" held Oct. 15 in Washington, D.C. In the spring of 2001, Khoshnood traveled to Iran with other Yale specialists at the invitation of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences. That visit has resulted in an exchange of researchers in Iran and the United States in the areas of addiction research and HIV/AIDS prevention and cure. Khoshnood's presentation was co-authored by Sahar Rooholamini, a second-year student in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine.
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by a beginning scholar" judged on "scholarly significance, interdisciplinary reach and methodological innovativeness." Johnston will receive the award at the annual meeting of the SSHA in St. Louis, Oct. 24-27.
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