Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 23, 2004|Volume 32, Number 27

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Spring book fair

The Phyllis Bodel Childcare Center at the Yale School of Medicine will host its annual spring book fair to raise funds for the center.

The event will take place Monday-Friday, May 3-7, in the rotunda of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The fair will be open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and will feature children's books, current bestsellers, cookbooks and self-help books. For more information, call (203) 785-3829.

Wolfgang Leonhard Prize

Applications for the Wolfgang Leonhard Prize in Russian and East European Studies are now being accepted.

Established in 2001 by the gift of James Leitner '75, the prize of $2,000 honors a distinguished former member of the faculty in Russian and East European studies.

The prize will be awarded to the senior who writes the most outstanding senior essay related to Russia or East Europe.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, April 26, at 4:30 p.m. Applicants must submit three copies of their essays to Rosemarie Hansen, YCIAS/Council on European Studies, Rm. 242, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. For more information, send e-mail to rosemarie.hansen@yale.edu.

Child Conduct Clinic

The Child Conduct Clinic is currently accepting children between the ages of 2 and 13-1/2 who are displaying behavioral problems such as lying, disobeying parents, swearing, cheating, Þghting, not getting along with others or getting into trouble at school. For more information, call (203) 432-9993.

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

Study shows how brain unconsciously processes images

Freshman cartoonist illustrates Washington Post column

Al Gore decries 'collision' between civilization and the environment

Carlos Fuentes calls for changes to close gap . . .

Panel: Respect is key to proper treatment of those with disabilities

Making Web pages accessible to all

Horwich honored for work on protein folding

'There's right on both sides' of civil liberties debate, journalist says

Play by Drama School graduate to close Yale Rep season

Americans, Europeans to debate right to intervene in Iraq

Study: Early instruction can change the brains of reading-disabled youths

U.S. poet laureate to give reading of her new work

Columnist to discuss why press failed on 9/11 and Iraq

New research on human conflict is focus of international conference

A Day of Community, a Day of Culture

Engineer Csaba Horváth, a pioneer in chromatography, dies

Mary Louise Brewster, widow of former Yale president, dies

Service, symposium to honor scientist Robert Macnab

Conference to explore work in the field of American Indian studies

Symposium will re-examine seminal essay by . . . Robert Cover

ITS support specialist to perform in 'Hamlet'