Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 7, 2003|Volume 32, Number 10

Yale affiliates donated more than 2,500 books for the United Way Day of Caring Book Drive that began in September. Here, boxes of collected books are piled up in the windows of the New Haven Reads headquarters on Park Street.

United Way Campaign nears
halfway mark in meeting its goal

Still in full swing, the Yale United Way Campaign has raised over $237,000 in donations and pledges from Yale faculty and staff.

This year's goal is $500,000.

During the week of Sept. 11, in conjunction with National Civil Participation Week, Yale affiliates also participated in a United Way Day of Caring Book Drive. They donated more than 2,500 new and lightly used books to the drive. Several hundred of the books were distributed at the Mayor's Halloween Parade, while others were picked up or donated to teachers from Hillhouse High School, Fair Haven Middle School, Hill Central, the Roberto Clemente School and the Early Learning Center.

"Every person who has seen the Yale-donated books has raved about the quality and quantity of the selection," says Christine Alexander, director of New Haven Reads. Donated books were distributed through the New Haven Reads office on Park Street.

There is still time for Yale faculty and staff to make their contributions to the Yale United Campaign. Donors can pledge online at http://mire.med.yale.edu/lcdb/unitedway/default.htm.

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

Harold Koh is appointed as next Law School dean

Clinton asserts 'shared responsibilities' among nations . . .

'Women Mentoring Women' program launched

Budget plans for the coming year

Event to explore ethics of media coverage in wartime

Colleges' sustainable dining initiatives are focus of conference

Women astronauts will talk about their 'Place in Space'

Computer scientists to develop ways to protect privacy online

Exhibit looks at Robert Damora's '70 Years of Total Architecture'

Yale Rep show explores collision of politics and culture in America

Her native landscape inspires Irish writer's 'desperate themes'

DeStefano hopes 'game plan' will bring him to Olympics

Study: Recovery rates from childhood leukemia . . .

Memory-enhancing drugs may actually worsen . . .

Dr. Robert Arnstein, counselor to generations of students, dies

World-renowned oncologist Dr. Paul Calabresi passes away

Rare form of obsessive compulsive disorder linked to gene mutation

Older patients may not be prepared to receive diagnosis, study says

Symposium will examine 'American Literary Globalism' . . .

Koerner Center to showcase emeritus faculty member's works

Researchers sequence and analyze the DNA of an ancient parasite

Two books on slavery are winners of the Douglass Prize

United Way Campaign nears halfway mark in meeting its goal

Yale Books in Brief

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