Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 27, 2004|Volume 32, Number 20

Campus Notes

The Yale Hunger & Homelessness Action Project Inc. will co-sponsor "Homelessness: Where We Are Now and Where We Are Going," a lecture, discussion and reception with Dennis Culhane on Wednesday, March 3, at 7 p.m. at First and Summerfield United Methodist Church, corner of College and Elm streets. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Culhane is a nationally renowned researcher into homelessness, its causes and the social policies that affect it. The event is also sponsored by the South Central Behavioral Health Network, the Program on Recovering Community Health and the City of New Haven Homeless Advisory Commission. For more information, call Magni Hamso at (203) 500-6584 or send e-mail to magni@yale.edu.

The Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) will hold its eighth annual "Soup Night" benefit 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 21. David Haltom, a Yale College senior and DESK board member, will perform jazz at the event, which will take place at St. Mary's Parish House, 5 Hillhouse Ave. The cost of the meal is $25 per person. For reservations, call (203) 624-6426. DESK serves 40-125 meals every night of the week and provides programs to assist individuals with health care, employment searches, housing and job skills.

Beatrice Sturgis Bartlett, professor of history, will discuss Yunxiang Yan's book "Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999," at a "Books Sandwiched In" discussion on Thursday, March 4. Sponsored by the New Haven Free Public Library, the talk will take place noon-1 p.m. in the community program room at the library. It is free and open to the public.

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

Peter Salovey appointed as next dean of Yale College . . .

New office to promote the University's international initiatives

Study shows drop in effectiveness of chicken pox vaccine

Yale-led coalition helps bring Delta Air Lines to Tweed

Squash team's latest victory is 'the ultimate payoff'

Medical student shares her tales in award-winning column

Law student to work on criminal justice project as Soros Fellow

Epidemiologist Casals-Ariet dies; discovered relationships of viruses

Yale Rep announces event change

Harshav receives Koret Jewish Book Award

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes