President Levin to speak at Congregation Mishkan Israel
President Richard C. Levin will be the featured guest speaker at the Congregation Mishkan Israel's celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday, Jan. 14.
The Congregation Mishkan Israel is the oldest continuously operating synagogue in New England. It began its annual tribute to the late Reverend King as a way of celebrating his contribution to the community and to honor his visit as a guest speaker in 1960.
The service, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 8 p.m. For more information, contact the synagogue office at (203) 288-3877.
The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, a scholarly organization affiliated with Yale, will sponsor a lecture by Frank Tavares, professor of communication at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), on Wednesday, Jan. 19.
Titled "Crisis? What Crisis? The New Environment for Crisis Communication," the lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Connecticut Hall, SCSU, 500 Crescent St., in New Haven.
The event is free and the public is invited. For more information, call (203) 432-3113, ext. 2.
Willie Ruff, adjunct professor of music, and Dwike Mitchell will perform in a concert to celebrate the beginning of their 50th year as a performing jazz duo.
The concert will begin at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 23, in the First Congregational Church of Branford. Following the performance, all ticket holders are invited to meet the musicians at a reception in the parish hall. The performers will also sign copies of their newly released CD.
Ticket prices range from $16 to $75, and may be ordered by calling (203) 453-3890 or online at www.shorelinearts.org.
Dr. Edward Snyder, professor of laboratory medicine, has been appointed to the position of associate director for shared resources at the Yale Cancer Center.
Snyder is an internationally recognized leader in the field of blood component therapy, particularly regarding platelet transfusions. He was president of the American Association of Blood Banks 1997-1998 and is a past member of the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee. He has served on numerous governmental advisory panels and has authored over 200 publications in the field of transfusion medicine.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition announced the winner of its annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize last month.
Jean Fagan Yellin, distinguished professor emerita at Pace University, won the $25,000 award for her biography, "Harriet Jacobs: A Life." The prize will be presented at a gala dinner at the Yale Club of New York on Feb. 24.
The prize honors the year's best nonfiction book on slavery, resistance and
Alexander Schenker, professor emeritus of Slavic linguistics, won the 2004 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
Schenker was cited for stirring the "souls and minds of readers from the novice to the most erudite colleague." He is the author of "Beginning Polish," "The Dawn of Slavic" and "The Bronze Horseman."
"Voices of the New Republic: Connecticut Towns, 1800-1832," a two-volume history book published by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, has received three prestigious awards -- a 2004 Connecticut Book Award for nonfiction from the Connecticut Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress; the Homer D. Babbage Jr. Award for Connecticut History from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History; and a Scholarly/Reference Book Series Design Award from the Bookbinders' Guild of New York.
Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History and former University president, is one of the editors of the book. Fifteen of the 28 authors contributing to the work have Yale affiliations.
The book provides an understanding of life in Connecticut towns in the early years of the new republic through town reports written in the 1800s, and commentary and assessment on these reports from the point of view of modern historians and natural scientists in essays written on topics across towns.
The book may be obtained at local bookstores or directly from the academy. The cost for the two-volume set is $60 plus $5.95 shipping and $3.96 sales tax for Connecticut shipments. For more information, call (203) 432-3113, ext. 1.
Donna Diers, the Annie W. Goodrich Professor Emeritus of Nursing and lecturer in epidemiology and public health, has received the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Award.
The book, "Speaking of Nursing ... Narratives of Practice, Research, Policy and the Profession," won in the Nursing Management and Leadership category. The collection of essays, speeches and other papers spans more than four decades and provides a perspective on the evolution of clinical nursing research, advanced practice nursing, and nursing's engagement in policy debate.
Dr. Sally E. Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics, was awarded the Townsend Harris Medal from her alma mater, the City College of New York.
The awards ceremony took place in New York on Nov. 10. Previous Townsend Harris medalists include playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine.
John S. Montanaro, senior lector in East Asian languages and literatures, is one of two recipients of the A. Ronald Walton Award that is given annually by the Chinese Language Teacher's Association.
The award recognizes overall contributions to the field of Chinese language pedagogy. The nomination statement cited Montanaro's work in developing and keeping in print many works vital to the task of teaching and learning Chinese.
The association represents Chinese language teachers from around the world.
Gustav Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and professor in the practice of sustainable development, has been named the Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Fellow for 2005 in Singapore.
The Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitors Program hosts academics and scholars from around the world, and was established in 1983 in honor of the former prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew. Speth will visit Singapore from Jan. 15 to 22 and present public lectures at the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Environment Council.
Rory Hennessey, senior offensive tackle for the Bulldogs, became an All-American for the second consecutive year when the American Football Coaches Association selected him to the 2004 I-AA squad.
Hennessey, the captain of the 2004 Bulldogs, was the only Ivy League selection and the only player from New England on this year's AFCA team.
Alvin Cowan, quarterback for the Bulldogs, was one of the 36 winners of the seventh annual Division I-AA Athletics Directors Association Academic All-Star Team. The winners were chosen from 86 nominees.
R. Howard Bloch, the Augustus R. Street Professor of French, has been awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies by the Modern Language Association of America (MLA).
The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book in its field -- a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work or a critical biography -- written by a member of the association. Bloch's book, "The Anonymous Marie de France," was cited as being "beautifully written, richly detailed and fascinating." He will receive $2,000 and a certificate.
The MLA, established in 1883, promotes the advancement of literary and linguistic studies.
Alan Garen, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has been appointed an honorary professor of the Hunan Normal University, the major university in Changsha, a city in southern China.
T H I S
Connecticut Academy lecture
Mitchell-Ruff Duo in concert
Snyder appointment
Frederick Douglass book prize awarded
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Schenker wins award
Book receives three awards
Diers receives book award
Shaywitz awarded Townsend Harris medal
Montanaro honored
Speth honored in Singapore
Two Bulldogs win honors
Bloch wins Scaglione Prize
Garen honored in China
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