Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 23, 2004|Volume 32, Number 27

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS
Special supplements of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar, including 'Building Strength in Biomedicine' and 'University Information,' are now available on-line.

Study shows how brain unconsciously processes images

Yale researchers have found that the brain can unconsciously differentiate between social stimuli (pictures of faces) and non-social stimuli (pictures of objects) using a primitive visual pathway that terminates in the amygdala.
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Freshman cartoonist illustrates Washington Post column

When Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten announced in February that he had chosen Eric Shansby as his new cartoonist, he said of the Yale freshman: "I am confident that, despite his youth, he will be able to illustrate anything, however adult in concept."
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Al Gore decries 'collision' between civilization and the environment

From the disappearing Arctic ice cap and snows of Kilimanjaro to rising sea levels that threaten to engulf much of the coast of Bangladesh and swallow the Florida Keys among other sites -- at the present rate of global warming, the Earth is headed for catastrophe, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned a packed audience in Battell Chapel on April 14.
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Carlos Fuentes calls for changes to close gap between First and Third Worlds

The global economy, said author and statesman Carlos Fuentes, is a lot like Mt. Everest -- impossible to move and therefore here to stay.
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Panel: Respect is key to proper treatment of those with disabilities

Sometimes when Yale faculty member Glenn Weston-Murphy is maneuvering his wheelchair up an incline, an operation he describes as "delicate as walking a tight rope," a good-hearted individual will come up from behind and -- without asking -- start pushing.
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Making Web pages accessible to all

O T H E RS T O R I E S

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 late law professor Robert Cover

ITS support specialist to perform in 'Hamlet'

In the next YB&C

New World Fellows named

Environmental goals

Washington Post Magazine cartoonist Eric Shansby '07 with a self-portrait.
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The Phoenix Dance Troupe, an undergraduate performance group, was among the various Yale international organizations that took part in the combined Communiversity Day-International Cultural Festival held April 17 on Old Campus.
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