Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 10, 2006|Volume 34, Number 18

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS
Special supplements of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar, including 'Standing, Special and Appointments Committees' and 'University Information' are now available on-line.

Summer program will send
students to Singapore

As part of its commitment to increase opportunities for study abroad, Yale has launched a new program allowing students to take five weeks of summer classes for credit at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
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Scientists say sediment layer may forecast greatest earthquakes

Researchers at Yale and the University of Washington report that great earthquakes, like the one in Sumatra in 2004, may be caused by the build-up of sediment on top of subduction zones, suggesting a new way to forecast these most severe earthquakes.
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Yale receives $5.4 million NIH grant to study rapidly spreading parasitic disease

Yale researchers have been awarded a $5.4 million National Institutes of Health grant for the study of a parasitic disease that affects thousands of children each year.
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Trips to Afghanistan kindle student's love of parents' homeland

Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Hyder Akbar was living the life of a typical high school teenager: contemplating college, playing video games at his home in a San Francisco suburb, hanging out with friends and listening to music on his disc player -- especially to his extensive collection of U2 CDs.
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'How many deaths? ... How many injuries?'

O T H E RS T O R I E S

Yale composer is elected the president of scholarly academy

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

Symposium pays tribute to noted architect Philip Johnson

Film explores evolution vs. intelligent design

Yale affiliates to be among featured guests at LEAP fundraising dinner

New test uses amniotic fluid to predict possibility of premature birth

Sex of fetus shown to affect severity of symptoms in women with asthma

Analyzing proteins in urine can help diagnose, classify preeclampsia

Exhibit, symposium focus on two 'Witnesses to War and Revolution'

The 60-year history of the United Nations is celebrated in new library exhibit

Expert on global environmental issues named Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Issues of chronic illness explored in international conferencective

Readings celebrate 'London's River' in verse and prose

Campus Notes

In the next YB&C

Yale professor wins Grammy

Vice President Bruce Alexander to oversee campus development

This photograph, from the cover of Hyder Akbar's book "Come Back to Afghanistan," shows the Yale junior during a visit to Kabul.
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The new documentary film "Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus" will have an advance screening on Monday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
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