Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 3, 2003|Volume 32, Number 5

Campus Notes

Richard Maxwell, lecturer in comparative literature, will discuss Winfried Georg Sebald's book "Austerlitz" at a "Books Sandwiched In" discussion on Thursday, Oct. 9. Sponsored by the New Haven Free Public Library, the talk will take place noon-1 p.m. in the community program room at the library; the lower level entrance is on Temple St.

Abraham J. Malherbe, the Buckingham Professor Emeritus of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, presented a paper, titled "Paraenesis in the Epistle to Titus," to a colloquium in the Department of Religious Studies at Emory University. He presented the same paper to a colloquium in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, where a fellowship for doctoral studies in the Institute of Antiquity and Christian Studies in the department had been established in his honor.

Robert Farris Thompson, the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, delivered the annual Jerrold Ziff Distinguished Lecture in Modern Art on the topic "Tango" on Sept. 13. The lecture took place at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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

F&ES to get 20% of its electricity from wind power

Program will help train future leaders in patient-oriented research

Student helped strengthen neighborhoods in her hometown . . .

Heading for 'Jeopardy!'

SOM professors' study on mutual funds gets renewed notice

Rule of law is slowly advancing in China, ambassador asserts

Yale endowment reaches record high in last fiscal year

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer joins School of Music faculty

Experts on air pollution and energy systems join the F&ES faculty

Conference to explore the future of globalization

Team learns sugars produced by cancers may help disease spread

Events mark the centennial of Russian composer

Intersection of architecture and psychoanalysis to be explored

Exhibit honors theologian who helped shape American psyche

Study: Caregivers, patients often disagree over health decisions

Universities should ensure global access patented new medicines . . .

New Yorker publisher to discuss how the magazine got its 'mojo' back

Symposium celebrates career of biochemist Donald Crothers

Homeless benefit from combination of services, says study

Robert Macnab, noted for his research on bacteria, dies

Two studies aim to help smokers quit the habit

True Blue tradition

Campus Notes