Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 19, 2004|Volume 32, Number 22

Campus Notes

The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences will host a lecture titled "Head Start in Crisis" on Wednesday, March 24. Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology, will present the lecture at 5:30 p.m. at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-3113, ext. 2. On Feb. 27, Zigler, who is also director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, was honored by the Connecticut Family Resource Alliance with a "Friends of the Family" award for his leadership on issues relating to Connecticut children and families and for his support of Connecticut Family Resource Centers. The resource centers were modeled after the family support/early childhood "Schools of the 21st Century" concept developed by Zigler at Yale. The ceremony took place at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Family Resource Centers.

The Institute of Sacred Music and the School of Music will present a student organ recital by Christopher Jennings on Sunday, March 21, at 4:15 p.m. at Trinity Church on the Green, 129 Church Street, and by Tim Spelbring on Monday, March 29, at 8 p.m. at United Church on the Green, 323 Temple Street. The School of Music will also present Evan Rainey Bennett, a bass-baritone, performing in a Master of Music recital on Friday, March 26, at 8 p.m. at Trinity Church on the Green.

Theodore Richard Marmor, professor at the School of Management, adjunct professor at the Law School and professor at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, has been selected as a principal candidate for the Fulbright-University of Montreal Chair Fulbright award in Canada during the 2004-2005 academic year. As a representative of the United States in Canada, Marmor will help fulfill the principal purpose of the Fulbright program -- to increase mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and the 140 countries that participate in the program. The announcement of the award noted the expectation that Marmor "will demonstrate the qualities of excellence and leadership that have been the hallmarks of this program for more than fifty years."

Joseph LaPalombara, the Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political Science, professor emeritus of management, lecturer in ethics, politics and economics, senior research scholar in sociology, and lecturer in political science, received the Alumni Achievement Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Each year the college asks its 120,000 alumni to nominate individuals who they believe best exemplify a liberal arts education. The college's alumni association then selects a handful of candidates to be recognized for their outstanding achievements.

The School of Medicine Health Management Program will co-sponsor "Leading by Example: Leaders and Organizations Making a Difference in Health Care," a three-part symposium that will bring together business, academic and health care experts to explore creative solutions and strategies to address important health care trends and issues. Topics will include affordability, access, quality and safety. The symposium will take place on Friday, April 16, 9 a.m.-noon. Registration and a continental breakfast will begin at 8:15 a.m. The event will be held at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 370 Bassett Road, North Haven. To register, call (203) 294-7267. The other sponsors are Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the University of Connecticut School of Business Center for Healthcare and Insurance Studies, in collaboration with the Connecticut Hospital Association.

James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, will discuss his book "Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment," at a "Books Sandwiched In" discussion on Thursday, March 25. 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, 133 Elm St.

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