Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 19, 2004|Volume 32, Number 22

Six undergraduates earn prizes
for their private collections of books

The winners of the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prizes in the 2004 competition have been announced.

The prizes were established in 1957 by the late Adrian Van Sinderen '10 B.A., in order to encourage undergraduates to collect books, to build up their own libraries, and to read for both pleasure and education.

The Senior prize of $750 was awarded to Valerie Idehen of Saybrook College for her African-American literature collection. The Senior Runner-Up prize of $600 was awarded to David Gorin of Trumbull College for his collection of books by contemporary American poets. Senior Honorable Mention prizes of $500 were awarded to Samantha Culp of Timothy Dwight College for her collection on 20th-century arts and culture, both East and West, and to Joshua Foer of Trumbull College for his "Library of Wonders."

Sophomore Honorable Mention prizes of $250 were awarded to Julian Darwall of Silliman College for his collection on hoboes, itinerant workers who had a distinct subculture from 1870 to 1940, and to Matthew McCarty of Ezra Stiles College for his collection on classical art and archaeology.

Prizes will be awarded by the committee of judges at a luncheon for the winners to be held on Thursday, April 1.

Judges for this year's competition were Stephen Parks (chair), Sylvia V.S. Abbate, Elisabeth Fairman, James Prosek, William Reese and David Haltom '04.

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

Yale scientist on team that discovered new planetoid

Robert Blocker has been reappointed to third term . . .

Center to foster research on cerebral cortex

Bulldogs' Nate Lawrie busy preparing himself for NFL Draft

Political scientist Ian Shapiro named YCIAS director

Zbigniew Brzezinski . . . to present talk on campus

Magic, comic mayhem prevail in re-telling of old tale

'Digital Cops in a Virtual Environment' will explore . . .

Conference to consider 'The Future of Secularism'

Exhibit features works by artist who combined fact and fantasy . . .

NIDA director discusses complicated causes . . . of drug addiction

Castle Lectures to explore materialism in today's culture

English faculty to present staged reading of 'Pentecost'

'Enclave' to explore architectural aspects of ports of commerce

In Focus: Office of Cooperative Research