Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 18, 2005|Volume 33, Number 19

Campus Notes

Post to talk on water quality

David Post, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will deliver a lecture on "The Dual Influence of Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, on Water Quality" at a free seminar to be held at the University of Connecticut this month.

The seminar, titled "Five Years of CT IWR Sponsored Research Projects," will be held 3:30-5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in Rm. 100 of the W.B. Young Buildings. For directions, visit the website at http://www.ctiwr.uconn.edu/Seminars.htm.

Forte to perform music from his new album

Allen Forte, the Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music, will perform music from his new album later this month.

Titled "Songs of Yesterday for Today," the album is a collection of works of the "Golden Age," from composers such as Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael. Forte is the pianist and arranger on the album. Vocals are by Martha Bennett Oneppo.

Forte and Oneppo will perform at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 27, at the Neighborhood Music School, 100 Audubon St. For more information, call (203) 288-8888.

Venclova receives third honorary doctorate

Tomas Venclova, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, will receive an honorary doctorate from the Torun Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland on Saturday, Feb. 19. Venclova has also received honorary doctorates from Lublin Curie-Sklodowska University and Krakow Jagiellonian University.

Gustav Ranis in Singapore

Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, spent two weeks in Singapore in November at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He was asked to advise on the future of the school and gave a number of public lectures during his visit.

Blatt honored by book of colleagues' essays

Dr. Sidney J. Blatt, professor of psychiatry and psychology, was honored by a Festschrift collection of essays by former students and an international group of colleagues.

The volume, titled "Relatedness, Self-Definition and Mental Representations: Essays in Honor of Sidney J. Blatt," was published in January. It contains chapters in five areas of Blatt's primary contributions, including personality development, psychopathology, and psychoanalysis and culture.

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

New Y-Loans will help finance graduate, professional study

Architect chosen for Yale's new 'green' building

Poet Wright wins Bollingen Prize for life's work

Student's photographs of his native Bulgaria featured in exhibit

Group helps unify tsunami relief efforts

AIDS and other health issues in South Asia will be the focus . . .

In Memoriam: D. Allan Bromley, nuclear physicist and presidential adviser

Child Study Center wins grant for early care program in Arkansas

Award-winning sports commentator to be next Poynter Fellow

O'Malley is honored for her work on addiction recovery

Study finds no risk of stillbirth following caesarean deliveries

New scholarship will support SOM students from China

Pam Stuper appointed head field hockey coach

Article based on popular course provides guidance . . .

Event will explore work ethic and legacy of noted neurosurgeon

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