Michael Auslin, assistant professor of history, will appear in a television documentary on the Tokugawa Shogunate, the military dynasty that ruled Japan from the 16th to the 19th century. The three-part series, titled "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire," will be broadcast nationally on PBS, beginning Wednesday, May 26.
Murray Biggs, adjunct associate professor of English and theater studies, will be a panelist at a roundtable forum that will discuss Shakespeare's "Richard III" next month. The event, sponsored by the Elm Shakespeare Company of New Haven and the Shoreline Arts Alliance, will take place 7-9 p.m. on June 2 at the Blackstone Memorial Library, 758 Main St., in Branford. It is free and open to the public. As seating is limited, reservations must be made by calling (203) 453-3890. The play will be performed at 8 p.m. on Aug. 10-15 on the Guilford Green. It will also be performed at Edgerton Park in New Haven at 8 p.m. on Aug. 18-22, Aug. 24-29 and Aug. 31-Sept. 5.
The Medieval Academy of America has named Anders Winroth's "The Making of Gratian's 'Decretum'" as a co-winner of its John Nicholas Brown Prize. The prize is awarded to two books, each of which "has completely changed the field in which it works." Winroth's book was cited for reshaping the "study of medieval canon law by taking an altogether fresh look at the manuscript tradition."
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of A. Douglas Stone, professor and chair of the Department of Applied Physics, as director of the Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering for three years, beginning July 1.
The Biancamaria Finzi-Contini Calabresi Prize for the best senior essay in comparative literature was awarded jointly to Irina Vasilchenko for her essay "What the Devil?: A Comparison of the Demonic in Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita' and Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov'" and to Kathryn Stergiopoulos for her essay "Blast Furnace of Our History: Tensions Between Avant-Garde and Modernist Tendencies in the Poetry of Andreas Empeirikos and Giorgos Seferis."
The Alvin B. Kernan Prize for the best senior essay in the literature major was awarded jointly to Laura Perciasepe for her essay "Virgina Woolf and the Hogarth Press: A Press of Her Own" and to Rachel Burgess for her essay "Renewable Temporality and the Ballad of 'Child Waters.'"
Celia E. Schultz, assistant professor of classics and history, was awarded the Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship by the American Academy in Rome. The prize is a residential fellowship lasting from six months to two years and provides the opportunity to live and work at the academy's facilities in Rome. Established in 1894, the academy is a center that sustains independent artistic pursuits and humanistic studies. Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to 15 emerging artists and 15 scholars. Schultz will complete a book-length project that explores the religious opportunities available to women in Republican Rome.
The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) recently awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to Mariano Viapiano, a postdoctoral associate in neurobiology, who is working under the supervision of Provost Susan Hockfield, the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology. Viapiano is exploring the role of a new protein in brain tumor invasiveness. The goal of the ABTA is to eliminate brain tumors through research and to meet the needs of brain tumor patients and their families.
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Eight Yale professors elected fellows . . .
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Fake patients helping medical students to develop real-world skills
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SOM center wins grant for study of behavioral finance
FOUR FACULTY GET ENDOWED POSTSCharles Bailyn: Donnelley Professor of Astronomy
Dr. Roberta Hines: Greene Professor of Anesthesiology
Dr. Margaret Hostetter: Wallace Professor of Pediatrics
Ramamurti Shankar: Huffman Professor of Physics
Gallery acquires collection of Mediterranean coins
Alumni return to campus to celebrate reunions
AYA honors five for outstanding service with Yale Medals
Graduate School presents alumni with its highest honor
Three faculty members are hailed by graduate students . . .
Researchers solve riddle of what makes some mammals . . .
Study will compare treatments for children with type 2 diabetes
Susan Greenberg named the first Goldsmith Assistant Curator
Prize-winning series of articles cites Yale research
Athletics department staff go to bat for a worthy cause
Scientist Michel Devoret is honored . . .
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