 | A historic home once located at 285 Prospect St. was moved about 300 feet to make way for the construction of a new Yale science building. The three-story structure, built in 1910, made its journey over the course of a week on six dollies made from the wheels of a Boeing 727 airplane. The building, now at 380 Edwards St., will continue to be used by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. |
Interim administrators are appointed
Several individuals were named to acting administrative posts in recent months. They are:
Bruce Alexander, who - in addition to his role as vice president and director of New Haven and state affairs - will serve as interim vice president for finance and administration. He succeeds Robert Culver, who held that post for the past two years and has relocated to Boston.
Dr. Dennis D. Spencer, who has been appointed acting dean of the School of Medicine, succeeding Dr. David A. Kessler, who is now dean of University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. Spencer is both the chair of and the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery.
John Bollier, executive director of facilities development and operations at the School of Medicine, who will assume the position of acting associate vice president for facilities when Kemel Dawkins leaves in mid-September to become the first vice president for campus services at Duke University.
Janet Lindner, who is serving as acting associate vice president for administration, succeeding Peter Vallone, who retired in May after 18 years of service at Yale. Linder, who most recently served as executive director of administrative operations, was also director of Yale's Tercentennial.
For the second year in a row, a faculty member from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) won the international environmental Blue Planet Prize from the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation. F. Herbert Bormann, the Oastler Professor Emeritus of Forest Ecology, shared the annual award, along with Gene Likens, president and director of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, who also has a Yale faculty affiliation. The two men will travel to Japan in October to receive the prize, which honors their roles in developing an understanding of the human impact on ecosystems through the study of the flows of water and chemicals in watersheds. Last year, F&ES Dean Gus Speth won the award.
The television game show "Jeopardy!" will tape its annual College Championship in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium's Lanman Center Oct. 3 and 4. Yale will become the first Ivy League school to host the championship, which will bring together 15 collegians from around the country to compete. The tournament will be televised nationally Nov. 10-17 (locally, on WTNH at 7 p.m.) For ticket information, visit the website at www.wtnh.com or call the "Jeopardy!" hotline at (203) 784-8873. Other news will appear in future issues of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar.
Yale strengthened and expanded its ties to South Korea during a trip there in May by President Richard C. Levin. He and a delegation of Yale administrators and faculty met with Korean political and business leaders, colleagues from Korea's leading universities and Yale alumni to discuss the University's many international initiatives and to establish new ones. Levin also presented the opening remarks at the Third Asian Corporate Governance Conference, which was organized in conjunction with Yale's International Institute of Corporate Governance.
In a worldwide ballot, Yale graduates chose Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan '66 to serve as an alumni fellow on the Yale Corporation. Koplan, currently vice president for academic health affairs at Emory University, is former head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation's chief disease prevention agency. He began his six-year term in July, succeeding renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson.
Six faculty were recently appointed to endowed professorships. The scholars and their new posts are:
Xing Deng, the Daniel C. Eaton Professor of Plant Biology. He is also director of the Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology.
Pierre Hohenberg, the Eugene Higgins Adjunct Professor of Physics and Applied Physics.
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Italian Language and Literature. He is also chair of the Department of Italian Language and Literature.
Dieter Soll, the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
Gunter Wagner, the Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Wagner is the first incumbent of the Richard Professorship, which was established in honor of a former Yale provost and anthropologist.
In addition, it was announced that Arjun Appadurai, the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies and director of the Initiative on Cities and Globalization, will serve as the William Clyde DeVane Professor during the 2003-2004 academic term.
The Deborah Rose Foundation and the Sandra P. and Frederick P. Rose Foundation have made a major gift toward the construction of a joint police station and community center that will benefit both Yale and the city of New Haven. The 34,000-square-foot structure, to be called the Rose Center, will be built on a two-acre lot in the Dixwell neighborhood and will include a Yale-run computer facility for local youths, among other programs. Deborah Rose '72 spearheaded the contribution.
The following grants were announced this summer:
• $8.1 million in renewed funding from the National Institute on Aging to support the work of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale for the next five years. In June, the center celebrated the 10th year of its founding.
• $3.3 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to Yale and Oxford University scientists for a five-year study on the genetic and environmental risk factors that increase susceptibility to asthma in early infancy.
• $1.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education to the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies for language study over the next three academic years.
Yale alumnus and national conservation leader Strachan Donnelley endowed a
scholarship at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) designed to help develop a new generation of environmental leaders.
The Strachan and Vivian Donnelley Endowed Scholarship Fund will help bring to the school "outstanding young leaders who otherwise could not afford to be here," said F&ES Dean Gus Speth. Donnelley, a 1964 Yale College graduate, is president and founder of The Center for Humans and Nature.
F&ES also recently joined with the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of China's Tsinghua University to launch the Environmental and Sustainable Development Leadership Program. The initiative is designed to help Chinese leaders understand and meet the challenges of sustainable development. The joint program is sponsored by the France-based company Veolia Environmental, and its divisions Onyx Asia and Veolia Water Asia.
Linda Spoonster Schwartz, a research scientist at the School of Nursing (YSN), was appointed commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs. Schwartz, who has a long history of involvement in nursing and veterans organizations and who is working on the "Vietnam Nurses Health Study" at YSN, is the first woman to head Connecticut's veterans affairs program.
World-renowned researcher Dr. Richard L. Edelson became the new director of the Yale Cancer Center on July 1, succeeding Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, who stepped down after his second term. A 1970 graduate of the School of Medicine who studies Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma, Edelson devised the first selective immunotherapy for any cancer approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration - a treatment now referred to as transmutation.
Four Yale professors were elected as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are: Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor and director of graduate studies in Spanish and Portuguese; Michel Devoret, professor of physics and applied physics; Donald P. Green, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science; and Peter B. Moore, the Sterling Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics.
Two School of Medicine Professors were elected to the National Academy of Sciences. They are: Linda Bartoshuk, professor of surgery and psychology; and Dr. Arthur Horwich, professor of genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Also, two faculty members were elected into the American Philosophical Society. They are: Peter Brooks, the Sterling Professor of French and Comparative Literature; and Robert J. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics.
The Connecticut Commission on the Arts honored three Yale affiliates for their contribution to the state's arts scene. Donald Margulies, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who teaches at the School of Drama, received the Governor's Arts Award for his work, while staff members Terry Dagradi and Lorraine F. Roseman, who co-founded the Yale Physicians Building Art Place, received Distinguished Advocates Awards.
The following are just some of the results of recent research conducted by Yale scientists:
• Yale researchers for the first time identified two types of reading disability in children - one that is primarily inherent and one that is more environmentally influenced - underscoring the important role of early intervention among poor readers. (Biological Psychiatry, July 1.)
• Investigators at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies warn that a rising cloud base along the northeastern United States could disrupt the forests at the north end of the Appalachian mountains. (Journal of Climate, June 15.)
• Researchers at the School of Medicine have learned that women are more affected than men by stressful life events, which can contribute to their inability to quit smoking or their tendency to resume smoking. (Addiction, June.)
• In a large national study, School of Medicine researchers found that there was no racial gap in the quality of care received by elderly black patients hospitalized for heart care. (Journal of the American Medical Association, May 21.)
• A review of 4,179 patient cases reveals that people with epilepsy may be more likely to experience treatment-related behavioral side-effects than patients receiving the same drug for other brain disorders. (Epilepsy and Behavior, May.)
• A group of Yale astrophysicists calculated the fate of a pair of super-massive black holes at the center of a galaxy, showing that they spiral inward and coalesce quickly when a large amount of gas is present. (American Astronomical Society meeting.) In other astronomy news, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics discovered a bright new gravitational lens (i.e., an image of a distant galaxy, or quasar) using the 3.5-meter WIYN Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
• According to a Yale study, a diuretic commonly used to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure may improve blood flow in the brain of cocaine addicts, thereby improving their chances for treatment. (Drug and Alcohol Dependence, June.)
• More than one-quarter of the nation's diabetics hospitalized with heart failure are treated with diabetes medications not considered safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a Yale study. (Journal of the American Medical Association, July 2.)
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Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation created a $2 million endowment to help advance cutting-edge medical research at the School of Medicine. The new program, called the Bayer Endowment for Scholars in Medicine and Management, will award a fellowship each year to a faculty member who is making significant advances in medicine or health care management.
In recent months, several faculty members passed away.
Dr. Robert M. Donaldson Jr., the David Paige Smith Professor Emeritus and former deputy dean of the School of Medicine, who died on July 8 at age 75. A member of the Yale faculty since 1973, Dr. Donaldson conducted research on the role of certain bacteria in gastrointestinal function and in diseases that cause malabsorption.
Patricia Goldman-Rakic, a world-renowned neuroscientist and a pioneer in the area of memory function, who died on July 31 at age 66. Professor Goldman-Rakic, a long-time Yale faculty member, was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology.
Thomas McLernon Greene, the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of English and Comparative Literature, who passed away on June 23 at age 77. Professor Greene, whose tenure on the faculty spanned five decades, was a renowned scholar of literary criticism and founder of an acclaimed theater project that inspired middle-school students to ponder complex moral dilemmas.
Dr. Leonard S. Kaplow, professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine, who died on June 25 at age 83. Dr. Kaplow served on the School of Medicine faculty for over 24 years at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in West Haven.
Burke Marshall, a champion for civil rights as an assistant attorney general in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, who died on June 2 at age 80. At the Law School, where he served on the faculty for over 30 years, Professor Marshall was the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor Emeritus of Law and the George W. Crawford Professorial Lecturer in Law.
President Richard C. Levin appointed a committee to advise him in the search for a new director of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library to succeed Barbara Shailor, who is now deputy provost for the arts. .
University Librarian Alice Prochaska chairs the committee, which includes Jon Butler, the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History, professor of religious studies, chair of the history department and co-director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale; Vincent Giroud, curator of modern books at the Beinecke Library; William Goetzmann, the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies at the School of Management; Ann Okerson, associate university librarian; Linda Peterson, the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English; Regina Romero, administrator at the Beinecke Library; and Craig Wright, professor of music history. .
Individuals with nominations or comments are encouraged to contact the committee members or the President directly.
The Discovery Room of the Peabody Museum of Natural History now features a new permanent exhibition: "Jewels of the Rainforest: Poison Dart Frogs." In the wild, the colorful amphibians produce dangerous toxins because they feed on ants that eat poisonous plants, but the frogs on display at the Peabody are fed on a non-toxic diet of lab-raised fruit flies and crickets.
Giovanni di Paolo's "St. Clare of Assisi Blessing the Bread Before Pope Innocent IV" is one of 40 early Italian paintings from the Yale University Art Gallery's collection that are now on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Yale works, which complement the Met's holdings, are on extended loan while the Yale Art Gallery undergoes renovations.
T H I S
While You Were Away:
The Summer's Top Stories Revisited
Faculty honored with Blue Planet Prize
"Jeopardy!" coming to Yale this fall
Trip expands Yale ties to South Korea
New alumni fellow elected
Faculty named to endowed posts
Gift to help create center for police and community
Grants and gifts announced
At F&ES: New scholarship, China program established
YSN scientist heading state's VA Department
Yale Cancer Center has new director
Yale College's Sustainable Food Initiative entered a new phase this summer with the creation of an organic farm in a once-ignored corner of Farnam Gardens on Prospect Street. Nine Yale students learned the intricacies of growing goods organically under the tutelage of Josh Viertel, who set up a university-wide composting system for the Sustainable Food Initiative. The gardeners hope to ignite enthusiasm for organic food in others, and plan to share their bounty with the Berkeley College dining hall.
Faculty elected to scholarly societies
State honors three for work in the arts
Recent Yale Discoveries
Bayer endows scholarship in biomedical research
Obituaries
Search committee for Beinecke director named
'Jewels of the Rainforest'
Yale art at the Met
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Class of 2007 has arrived
Agent Orange left legacy of birth defects, says study
Locals 34 and 35 are on strike
Yale-United Way Campaign begins
'Start with the Arts' will highlight city's attractions
Weekend workshop to explore the impact of SARS
Town Hall-style dialogue aims to reduce U.S.-Muslim tensions
While You Were Away: The Summer's Top Stories Revisited
Chinese literature scholar and translator Hans Frankel dies
Neurosurgeon and educator Dr. Franklin Robinson dies
Worldly wise
Elizabeth Bradley is named first Yale recipient of John D. Thompson Prize
Summer was a season of service for Dwight Hall interns
Moving In Day
Campus Notes
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