President Levin announces new appointments
President Richard C. Levin has announced the following appointments:
Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, as chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese;
Philip Haile, professor of economics, as director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics;
Langdon Hammer, professor of English, as chair of the Department of English;
Karl Ulrich Mayer, professor of sociology, as chair of the Department of Sociology;
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Italian Language and Literature, as chair of the Department of Italian Language and Literature;
Robert Stepto, professor of English and American studies and of African American studies, as chair of the Department of African American Studies; and
Harry S. Stout, the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History, as chair of the Department of Religious Studies.
All appointments will be for a term of three years, effective July 1.
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station will hold its annual Plant Science Day on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at Lockwood Farms, 890 Evergreen Ave., in Hamden. It will be hosted by Louis A. Magnarelli, research associate at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, who is director of the station.
The event will include exhibits and visits to experimental research areas, notably those relating to new varieties of grapes and vegetables. The featured speaker will be Adam Moore '95 F&ES, executive director of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association. Scientists from the station will be on hand for discussion and to answer questions.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, visit the website at www.caes.state.ct.us.
Robert A. Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and senior research scientist in sociology, was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Columbia University on May 18. Dahl was cited as a "peerless student of democracy" whose "brilliant scholarship has challenged our understanding of government and widened the scope of political science."
Dr. Sally Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics, received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Williams College on June 5. Shaywitz directs the Center for the Study of Learning and Attention at the School of Medicine. Her research provides the basic framework, conceptual model, epidemiology and neurobiology for the scientific study of learning disabilities, particularly dyslexia, in children.
Dr. Raymond Yesner, professor emeritus and senior research scientist in the Department of Pathology, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.
The award, considered one of the most prestigious in the field of pathology, was presented recently at a conference in San Antonio.
Yesner joined the School of Medicine in 1946, assuming the post of chief of pathology at the school's affiliated Veterans Hospital. He has written widely on the role of the autopsy in modern medical practice and stimulated an international discussion that continues today on the dangers of the decline of the autopsy in the Western world.
Two graduate students will receive Gilliam Graduate Fellowships for studies in the life sciences from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Created this year to honor the legacy of James H. Gilliam Jr., a charter trustee of HHMI, the fellowships provide support for Ph.D. studies in the life sciences to students, including underrepresented minorities, who participated in HHMI's Exceptional Research Opportunities undergraduate summer research program.
The students are Imran Babar, who will carry out graduate study in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and Meisha Bynoe, who will enter the graduate program in microbiology this fall.
The Yale K12 Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Award Program announced four award recipients for the 2005-2006 academic year.
The recipients are Dr. Kristina Crothers, instructor in internal medicine (pulmonary); Dr. Arthur Simen, assistant professor of psychiatry; Dr. David Van Duin, postdoctoral fellow in internal medicine (infectious diseases); and Dr. Henry Klar Yaggi, assistant professor of internal medicine (pulmonary) and affiliate of the K12 Program.
Funded by the National Center for Research Resources, the K12 Program provides a stipend and a research and tuition allowance to physician investigators interested in pursuing a career in patient-oriented research.
Joyce Cramer, associate research scientist in psychiatry, was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).
ISPOR is an international organization that promotes the science of pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes research. ISPOR's mission is to translate pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research into practice to ensure that society allocates scarce healthcare resources wisely, fairly and efficiently.
Milena Flores, a former WNBA and Stanford point guard, has been named assistant women's basketball coach.
Flores has been a Division I assistant coach at Lehigh for the past three seasons after playing professionally for the WNBA's Miami Sol and Lithuania's Lietuvos Telekomas. She was also a three-year starter for nationally ranked teams at Stanford and was awarded the NCAA post-graduate scholarship in 2000.
Yale Nursing Matters Magazine will be awarded the 2004 Mercury Award for Best Magazine by the Public Relations Society of America for the Summer/Fall 2004 issue.
This is the third consecutive year that the magazine has won this honor. The Mercury Prize is awarded for excellence in editorial content and style, photography and graphic design. A finalist is selected from entries from the private, non-profit and academic sectors.
Victor Batista, assistant professor of chemistry, has won the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2005. Batista was one of 16 recipients from institutions such as Harvard, Caltech and Penn State. The award is given to faculty at the early stages of academic careers.
Natalia Duncan, a junior in Yale College, has been cast as Juliet in the Elm Shakespeare Company's 10th-year production of "Romeo and Juliet."
Duncan will perform opposite Alex Organ, an actor at the School of Drama. Chad Callaghan, a sophomore in Yale College, will perform in the role of Paris.
The Elm Shakespeare Company is a professional, multicultural, nonprofit theater company "committed to establishing a discourse with the New Haven community through the medium of William Shakespeare's plays." For more information, visit the website at www.elmshakespeare.org.
Sidney Altman, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Chemistry, was appointed Honorary Chair Professor at Fudan University.
Immanuel Wallerstein, senior research scientist in sociology, received honorary doctorate degrees from Lund University in Sweden, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and Kharkov National University in Ukraine. He was also presented with the N.D. Kondratieff Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in Moscow.
The Yale Repertory Theatre production of Rolin Jones's "The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow -- an instant message with excitable music" has been named the 2005 Outstanding Production of a Play by the Connecticut Critics Circle.
The Rep has been honored with this award three years in a row. The production also received awards for Outstanding Set Design and Sound Design.
Christian Appleman, a Yale women's basketball assistant coach last season and a former Penn State tennis assistant, has been named assistant coach of the men's tennis team.
Appleman has 13 years of Division I men's and women's basketball assistant coaching experience at Penn State, Army and Yale.
Yale distance runners Patrick Dantzer, Lucas Meyer and Casey Moriarty have earned selection to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District I team for men's track and cross country.
To be considered for Academic All-America honors, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher and be a starter or key reserve for their team.
Josephine Hoh, assistant professor of epidemiology, has been selected as an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging.
The four year, $200,000 grant will further Hoh's earlier research, which identified at least one important genetic variant in Caucasian age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients. AMD is the most common cause of blindness among aging populations throughout the developed world.
Theodore Holford, the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
The ASA is a scientific and educational society established to promote excellence in the application of statistics. Fellows are elected based on their contributions to the advancement of the field of statistics, their leadership within the field, publications, involvement in ASA activities, and other professional activities and memberships.
Herbert Yu, associate professor of epidemiology, has been selected to serve as one of five Avon FoundationAmerican Association for Cancer Research (AACR) scholar hosts.
The Avon Foundation-AACR International Scholar Awards for Breast Cancer Research program provides the scholar hosts -- all breast cancer researchers in the United States -- with funds to support a junior faculty scholar from a country with limited opportunities for scientific advancement to work on a particular breast cancer research program for a period of two years.
Jacek Cholewicki, associate professor of biomedical engineering and orthopaedics and rehabilitation, is the 2005 recipient of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine Award.
The prize is the highest honor bestowed in this field of study. Cholewicki was awarded the prize for his work in biomechanics.
A. David Paltiel, associate professor of public health, will serve on the Behavioral and Social Science Approaches to Preventing HIV/AIDS Study Section (BSPH) at the National Institutes of Health's Center for Scientific Review.
The BSPH Study Section reviews studies of behavioral and social science aspects of HIV transmission and infection in individuals, groups, and communities, focusing on studies of risk factors, antecedents, and correlates of HIV infection, and basic behavioral, epidemiologic and social science studies of mechanisms and factors at the individual and community levels.
Paltiel will serve on BSPH through June 2009.
Geralyn Radowiecki Spollett, nurse practitioner in internal medicine (endocrinology) and lecturer in psychiatry, received the Alumni Professional Achievement Award from Fairfield University.
The Yale Center for British Art has appointed Kraig Binkowski as head librarian of the Reference Library and Photograph Archive.
Binkowski was most recently at the Delaware Art Museum. He holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree. He is also a practicing printmaker who works primarily with etchings and woodcuts. As the head librarian at the center, Binkowski will work to increase access to the collections for students, scholars and visitors.
The Gerber Foundation has awarded Dr. Thomas Carpenter, professor of endocrinology and pediatrics, $844,000 over three years to study biomarkers of dietary calcium insufficiency in inner city infants.
Carpenter will study the decrease in calcium intake throughout the course of childhood and the continued decrease in calcium intake by children over the past
The goal of the study is to provide data to establish dietary guidelines for calcium in infants below age three.
Patrick Lynch, director of the MedMedia Group at the School of Medicine, and Dr. C. Carl Jaffe, professor of cardiology, were awarded the 2005 Pirelli Prize for Multimedia Education and the Pirelli Top Prize for 2005 for their development of a multimedia education website.
The Pirelli jury cited the "extraordinary depth and breadth of the 'Cardiothoracic Imaging' site, which is entirely in tune with the Pirelli INTERNETional Award's mission to encourage excellence in multimedia education and scientific dissemination via the Internet."
The Pirelli S.P.A. Group, one of Europe's major telecommunications and manufacturing firms, has sponsored the multimedia awards since their inception in 1996.
The prize winning website may be accessed at http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/cardio/imaging.
The School of Nursing has moved from 48th to sixth among nursing schools nationwide in support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research, training and fellowship activities, according to rankings released recently by the NIH.
The school's leadership in 1994 committed to the development of a doctoral program and to the development and support of a research-intensive environment. Investments included opening the Office of Research Affairs, hiring an associate dean for research affairs, adding incremental research support staff and dedicating space and equipment.
T H I S
Plant Science Day
Dahl receives honorary degree from Columbia
Shaywitz honored with Doctor of Science degree
Raymond Yesner receives pathology award
Two graduate students receive fellowships
Four K12 Mentored Cinical Research Scholars announced
Joyce Cramer honored
Flores named assistant women's basketball coach
Yale Nursing magazine wins Mercury Award
Victor Batista recieves Teacher-Scholar award
Students to perform in "Romeo and Juliet"
Altman appointed honorary professor at Fudan University
Wallerstein receives three honorary degrees
Yale Rep production wins critics' awards
Appleman named men's tennis assistant coach
Three Elis named to academic all-district team
Hoh selected as Ellison Foundation scholar
Holford elected fellow of statistical association
Yu selected to act as mentor in breast cancer research
Cholewicki receives award
Paltiel selected to serve at National Institutes of Health
Geralyn Spollett honored
Yale Center for British Art appoints new head librarian
Researcher to study calcium insufficiency in infants
30 years. He and his research team will perform an extensive biochemical nutrition screening of 800, 12- to 36-month-old children in inner city New Haven. These will take place at well-child visits to neighborhood health clinics over a two and a half-year enrollment period.
Medical school staff win Pirelli prizes for website
Yale School of Nursing ranks sixth in National Institutes of Health awards
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Yale launches program to train urban teachers
New alumni fellow elected
Sensors won't save lives from suicide bombers, warns Yale expert
Study: Monkeys ape humans' economic traits
Richard Shaw departs for Stanford post
Tennis goes co-ed at this year's Pilot Pen
Yale co-sponsors 'City of Summer' concerts and films
Exhibit features post-Civil War works by 'artful storyteller'
Yale alumni, teachers win Tony Awards
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
Philosopher Keith DeRose: Allison Foundation Chair
Phyllis Granoff: Hixon Chair in World Religions
Thomas Kavanagh: Street Professor of French
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: Crown Chair in ManagementLaw School project exploring the information society . . .
Poll shows public's distaste with foreign oil dependence
Scientists discover how plants protect themselves from infection
Team seeking 'perfume' to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes
Geologists use ancient sea algae to trace CO2 levels of long ago
Study shows how sex discrimination in job hiring is able to endure
YSN study shows effectiveness of preschool health screenings
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWSTeam to develop new system for testing potential vaccines
Senior citizens' television-watching habits affect their views . . .
Grant funds study of intestinal condition common in tiny babies
Yale center joins with Bike Across America to raise funds . . .
Alzheimer's disease patients sought for testing . . .
Scientists' discovery of protein amplification in melanoma . . .
Discovery of breast cancer growth regulator may help . . .
Patients disfigured by facial trauma suffer host of problems
Study shows how sex discrimination in job hiring is able to endure
New studies aim to benefit women's health
Study links an inherited pain disorder to specific gene mutation
Spotlight on Sports
Athletics archive now in library's collection
Three promoted to post of associate provost
Event to explore role of faith in the corporate world
In Memoriam: Dick Wittink, marketing expert and SOM teacher
Five faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for research
Event explored how libraries can benefit city schools
New alumni lauded for efforts to improve public schools
Yale Books in Brief
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