Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Private Enterprise and Management, launched the new Center for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at the University of Essex in England with a lecture series titled "Humans, Automatons and Markets." The three lectures in the series were delivered on March 10-12. The new center at Essex is a joint research initiative of its economics, finance and computer science departments. Sunder's presentations of the lectures are available at www.som.yale.edu/faculty/sunder/research.html.
The second annual lecture to honor the memory of the late Dr. Albert J. Solnit, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, will be held 5-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14. The lecture, "Beautiful Minds Can Be Reclaimed: Faces and Voices of Recovery," will be delivered by Courtenay M. Harding of Boston University. It will be held at the Quinnipiack Club, 221 Church St. Tickets are $50 per person and proceeds will benefit Fellowship Place in New Haven. For more information, call Sue Spight at (203) 401-4227, ext. 41, or send e-mail to skspight@yahoo.com.
Eric Uhlmann, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology, received a $1,000 Grants-in-Aid award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) for his essay "The Effects of Self-Perceived Objectivity on Gender Discrimination." The awards support scientific research projects in social problem areas related to the basic interests and goals of SPSSI.
Jeffrey E. Garten, dean and professor in the practice of international trade and finance at the School of Management, and Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, were named among the "500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy" by The World Affairs Councils of America. The councils are non-profit, non-partisan organizations that offer international exchanges, school programs, teachers workshops, model United Nations, foreign policy discussions, national opinion polling, travel programs, journals, newspaper columns, and local radio and television programs.
The Church of Christ in Yale will host an Easter sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 11, at the summit of East Rock. The event will be held irrespective of weather conditions.
The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences will host a lecture titled "The Making of the President 2004" on Thursday, April 15. Howard Reiter of the University of Connecticut will deliver the lecture at 4 p.m. in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-3113, ext. 2.
Mary Miller, the Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art, is the co-curator of "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art that opened on April 4. This is the first exhibition ever devoted to this subject in the United States. It brings together 130 masterworks from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, including works of stone sculpture, ceramics, precious stone and shell. The exhibition opened in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Miller is also the co-author of the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition.
Terry Dagradi, image specialist at ITS-Medical Media Services, was awarded first honors by the Shoreline Arts Alliance at IMAGES 2004, a statewide-juried photography show currently at the Mill Gallery of the Guilford Handcraft Center. 138 photographers throughout the state submitted 880 prints to the show.
Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, delivered the 2003-2004 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley, on March 16-18. Benhabib spoke on the topic of "Reclaiming Universalism."
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