Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 7, 2004|Volume 32, Number 29|Two-Week Issue

Campus Notes

Dr. David L. Katz, associate clinical professor of epidemiology and public health and associate clinical professor of medicine, will discuss and sign copies of the paperback editions of his books "Cut Your Cholesterol: Featuring the Exclusive Live It Down Plan" and "The Way to Eat: A Six-Step Path to Lifelong Weight Control" at Barnes & Noble, 470 Universal Drive North, North Haven, on Thursday, May 13, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 234-1805.

"A Program Honoring Albert Solnit, M.D.," will be held on Saturday, May 15, at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave. Lectures will be delivered by Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature; Sam Ritvo, clinical professor of psychiatry; Stephen Lassonde, lecturer in history and dean of Calhoun College; and Linda Mayes, the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Development. Coffee will be served 9:30-10 a.m. Lectures will be delivered 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. For more information, contact Alicia Grendziszewski at (203) 785-7205 or alicia.grendziszewski@yale.edu.

President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Paul Freedman, the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, as chair of the Department of History for three years, beginning July 1.

The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences will host a lecture titled "American Grand Strategy: Its Past and Future" on Wednesday, May 19. John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, will deliver 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.

The Oral History, American Music (OHAM) project and its founding director Vivian Perlis will receive a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center (AMC) on May 3 at the center's 40th annual meeting and awards ceremony in New York City. The Letter of Distinction has been previously awarded to individuals and organizations such as Aaron Copland, John Cage, Ornette Coleman and Bang on a Can. OHAM is the only ongoing institution to conduct, collect and preserve recorded interviews with major figures in American music. Its archives are used by scholars, biographers, musicians, and radio and television producers. The AMC, founded in 1939, is considered to be one of the most vital organizations in the field of American concert music. AMC's Letters of Distinction "recognize those who have made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary American music."

Dylesha Blackmon, financial assistant at the School of Nursing, received the Christian Leadership and Human Service Award, given annually by the Christian Community Commission of New Haven. The commission is a non-profit community outreach and leadership development organization. Blackmon is a member of the Miracle Temple Deliverance Center, where she serves as financial officer, altar staff, church booking secretary and Sunday school secretary and teacher.

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Alpern named as new medical school dean

Sixteen honored for strengthening town-gown ties

Author Fadiman named first Francis Writer in Residence

Yale counselor helped ease grief of war-torn families in Kosovo and Iraq

Media failed to 'connect the dots' before 9/11, journalist says

With a hoisting of tentacles, giant squid returns to Peabody

Alumni delegates explore issues . . .

Threatened nation-state is topic of two-day YCIAS conference

Event showcasing medical students' original research . . .

New center offers treatment for primary immunodeficiencies

The letters of literary figures are featured in Beinecke exhibit

In elderly, recovery from injuries often good . . .

Study: For-profit hospices offer fewer services than non-profits

Chemotherapy agent called cisplatin effectively transmits . . .

Scientists learn more about bond of water molecules, protons

New fund will support YSN faculty's initiatives to improve health care

Juniors are recognized for scholarship and character

'Modernist Voices' will explore themes in American and British literature

Dr. Terri Fried lauded for her work in geriatric patient care and research

Event explores new advances in chemical biology

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