Music School affiliates to perform in cabaret
Douglas Williams, a student at the School of Music, and Ted Taylor, a lecturer in voice at the school and at the Institute of Sacred Music, will perform together at CHOW, 966 Chapel St., on Sunday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m.
The performance, titled "Lush Life," will feature classic American standards from the thirties, forties and fifties. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $12. There is a $10 minimum per person for food and drink. Reservations are required. For more information, call (203) 772-3002 or visit www.chownewhaven.com.
Books Sandwiched In
Two Yale affiliates will be featured in "Books Sandwiched In" discussions at the New Haven Public Library this spring.
Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland will discuss Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" on March 30. Lana Schwebel, assistant professor of religion and literature at the Divinity School, will discuss Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead: A Novel" on April 6.
Other speakers will include Meredith Wallace of Fairfield University; Kim Rubinstein of the Long Wharf Theatre; Preston Maynard of the Community Economic Development Fund in New Haven; Burt Saxon of Hillhouse High School; and Noah Charney of Cambridge University.
The discussions will take place on Thursdays, noon-1 p.m, beginning on Feb 23. All discussions will be held in the community program room at the library, located at 133 Elm St. For more information, visit the website at www.cityofnewhaven.com/library/bsi.htm.
Concert of church music
Russell Weismann, a candidate for a Master of Music at the School of Music, will perform in a concert at the Caritas Christi Center on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m.
The concert, "Revisiting the New," will trace the history of church music. Tickets are $15 and pre-registration is required.
The Caritas Christi Center is a Catholic retreat and spirituality facility located at Mount Sacred Heart, 295 Benham St., in Hamden. To register for the concert, call Sr. Carolyn at (203) 281-2569 or visit the website at www.ascjus.org/ccc/default.htm.
Elimelech cited as 'trendsetter'
Public Works, a magazine for engineers and contractors of public works and infrastructure projects and programs, included Menachem Elimelech, the Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, on its 2005 list of trendsetters.
Elimelech is the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the director of the Environmental Engineering Program. His research encompasses studies of microbial pathogens in aquatic environments, desalination and water quality control, nanomaterials and biomolecules in aquatic systems, and water, sanitation, and public health in the developing world.
For more information, visit www.pwmag.com/resources/Trendsetters2005.pdf.
Faculty appointments
President Richard C. Levin has announced the following faculty appointments:
Thomas Kavanagh, the Augustus R. Street Professor of French, as chair of the Department of French and William Kelly, the Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, as chair of the Department of Anthropology.
Both terms will be for a period of three years, effective July 1.
Ruslan Medzhitov honored for work in immunobiology
Ruslan Medzhitov, professor of immunobiology, will receive the American Association of Immunologists-BD Biosciences Investigator Award as an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology.
The award will be presented at the organization's annual meeting in Boston, May 12-16, for research that centers on molecular mechanisms of innate immune recognition. In particular, Medzhitov is interested in the recently identified family of Toll-like receptors, which play an essential role in innate immune recognition in both mammals and insects.
Since 1994, the American Association of Immunologists has recognized an early career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology. This award has been co-sponsored since 1998 by BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) Biosciences.
Martenson named as chair of theater management dept.
Edward A. Martenson, lecturer in theater management, has been appointed adjunct professor of theater management and chair of the Department of Theater Management, effective July 1.
Martenson served as managing director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, and adjunct associate professor and co-chair of theater administration at the School of Drama from 1979 to 1982. He has held executive positions at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guthrie Theater. Since 1996, Martenson has served as program director and vice president for education at National Arts Strategies, where he developed and directs executive seminars on strategy, managing change and governance with faculty members drawn from several renowned universities.
Lehrman Center gives fellowships to three doctoral students
Allegra di Bonaventura, Jay Driskell and Robert Blake Gilpin, doctoral candidates in the Department of History, have been awarded research fellowships by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
The institute awards short-term fellowships in several categories to support outstanding scholarship. In 2005, the institute awarded a total of $143,072 for 69 fellowships. Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history.
Tatikonda wins National Science Foundation award
Sekhar Tatikonda, assistant professor of electrical engineering, received a $400,000 National Science Foundation Career Award for his project "Cooperative Control Under Communication Constraints."
The work has implications for distributed networks in national security, transportation, communication and commerce.
Tatikonda's interdepartmental project will examine how realistic communication channels, with noise and delay, can affect cooperative control performance, as well as help understand local versus global knowledge in a system.
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