 | Students used blocks to learn what makes wooden instruments resonate during a kindergarten class at Lincoln Basset School. Working with students Tah/Janay McKnight (left) and Diamond Robertson are (from left) Class of 1957 members John Shaw and Gus Kellogg and keyboard instructor Jean Lawrence. |
The University will train prospective teachers for free in return for an agreement to teach for three years in the New Haven Public Schools under the Urban Teaching Initiative, a partnership between Yale and the city.
The new 14-month master's degree program in Urban Education Studies will integrate graduate academic work with the requirements for a Connecticut secondary teaching certificate. All students who complete the program, which will be run by the Graduate School's Teacher Preparation Program, will be hired by the city.
President Richard C. Levin announced that the University is committed to offering all Yale College undergraduates the opportunity to study or work abroad during the undergraduate experience or the year following graduation.
"We believe that being an educational leader in this century requires our students to experience other countries as well as study them," said Levin.
The international opportunities fall into four categories: traditional semester or year-abroad programs; a growing number of summer school programs that Yale is organizing abroad; summer working internships organized by Yale for its graduates; and summer research and educational opportunities abroad.
To advance its goal, Yale is providing undergraduates on financial aid with grant support for University-sponsored summer study and internships abroad.
The newest addition to the Yale Corporation is alumni fellow Will Miller '78 B.A., chair and chief executive officer of Irwin Financial Corporation, a Columbus, Ohio-based company that serves small businesses in the United States and Canada.
Miller, who was chosen in a worldwide ballot of Yale alumni, is also a national civic leader, whose service to education and non-profit organizations spans more than two decades.
Margaret Grey, a pediatric nurse and diabetes expert, assumed the deanship of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) on Sept. 1.
Grey, the Annie Goodrich Professor of Nursing Research and associate dean for scholarly affairs at YSN, has been a member of the faculty since 1993. She is internationally known for her work on the natural history of the adaptation to chronic illness in childhood, especially diabetes mellitus, and has developed strategies for the control and prevention of diabetes in youths.
Richard M. ("Chip") Benson will step down as dean of the School of Art after the 2005-2006 academic year.
Benson has served as dean of the School of Art, the oldest university-based art school in the United States, since 1996. He is a renowned printer and photographer whose works are featured in museums around the country, and a former recipient of a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation.
Fourteen members of the Yale faculty were recently appointed to endowed posts.
Two -- R. Howard Bloch and Ian Shapiro -- received a Sterling Professorship, one of the University's highest faculty honors. Bloch was designated as Sterling Professor of French, and Shapiro, who is also the Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International Studies, was named Sterling Professor of Political Science.
The other faculty members and their new titles are: Donald W.K. Andrews, the Tjalling C. Koopmans Professor of Economics; Jeffrey E. Garten, the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance and Business; Dr. Peter M. Glazer, the Robert E. Hunter Professor of Radiology; Phyllis Granoff, the Lex Hixon Professor of World Religions; Christine Hayes, the Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica; Thomas A. Kavanagh, the Augustus Street Professor of French; Stephen Morris, the Irving Fisher Professor of Economics; Roberta Romano, the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law; Keith DeRose, the Allison Foundation Professor of Philosophy; Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, the Lester Crown Professor of the Practice of Management; Dr. Matthew W. State, the Harris Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry; and Dr. Stephen G. Waxman, the Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Molecular Neurology.
Two masters of residential colleges were reappointed to five-year terms: Judith B. Krauss, professor at the School of Nursing, at Silliman College; and Harvey Goldblatt, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, at Pierson College. This is Krauss' second term as master, and Goldblatt's third.
The Music in Schools Initiative -- a program funded by a gift from the Yale College Class of 1957 and operated by the School of Music -- is integrating music education into the core curriculum of the New Haven Public Schools.
Through the program, every child in the city's Lincoln-Bassett School from preschool programs to the upper grades receives music instruction four times per week. The activities -- most of which reinforce the school's math, reading and science programs -- are designed to develop the students' cognitive skills. Plans call for the initiative to expand to other schools in New Haven and eventually become a national model.
Several newly established endowed funds and scholarships were announced this summer.
History of Science. Two retired Yale professors -- Joseph S. Fruton and his wife, Sofia Simmonds -- have established a fund to promote teaching and research in the history of the basic, natural sciences of physics, chemistry and/or biology from a scientific, rather than a sociological, perspective. Fruton and Simmonds both taught for decades at Yale -- he in the Department of Biochemistry, and she in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
Divinity School. A scholarship designed to nurture activist ministers has been established at the Divinity School in honor of the prominent anti-war and civil rights activist the Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr., who was University chaplain 1958-1975. The fund, which has a $1 million endowment goal, was initiated by Coffin's former students to continue his legacy of involvement in the social and political questions of the day. For further information, visit the website at www.yale.edu/divinity/coffin/index.html.
Law School. The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust and the Sol Goldman Charitable Trust have given $5 million to endow the deanship of the Law School. The trusts are named in honor of the late New York City philanthropist and his wife, who was a longtime friend and benefactor of the Law School. Income from the endowment will support the work of the current dean, Harold Hongju Koh, and future deans in building upon the school's prominence in legal studies and public policy.
Men's Tennis. Larry Leeds '50 B.A. has endowed the post of Cary Leeds Head Coach for Men's Tennis in the Athletics Department in honor of his late son, a former varsity tennis star and world-ranked professional, who competed in six U.S. Opens and five Wimbledon tournaments. Laurence C. (Cary) Leeds III '79 B.A., who died unexpectedly in 2003, also founded the software company InterWorld and coached promising young tennis players.
The following are some -- but by no means all -- of the recent scientific news and findings involving Yale researchers.
New planet. A team of astronomers reported the discovery of a new planet in the outer solar system that is brighter than Pluto and three times farther away (www.yale.edu/opa/v34.n1/story3.html).
Ovarian cancer test. Scientists have developed a new blood screening test that can detect ovarian cancer in its early stages, when few symptoms are present (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n29/story1.html).
Fish genitalia. The size of male genitalia in some male fish species has both advantages and disadvantages, from an evolutionary perspective, making the fish with larger genitalia more attractive to females, but also reducing their ability to quickly evade predators. (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n29/story13.html).
Glioblastoma. A team has identified a virus that targets and kills glioblastoma, a deadly type of human brain tumor resistant to current medical or surgical treatment (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n29/story13.html).
Pre-K expulsions. Students in state-funded pre-kindergarten programs are expelled at a rate more than three times that of children in higher grades, generally for behavioral problems and more frequently when teachers do not have access to a psychologist or psychiatrist (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n30/story13.html).
Sedation and surgery. Listening to music dramatically reduces a patient's need for sedation during surgery (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n30/story15.html).
RNA quality control. Scientists have gained insights into the quality-control system that allows cells to recognize and dispose of abnormal or misfolded RNAs (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n30/story14.html).
Long-ago lemurs. Biologists who extracted and analyzed DNA from giant, extinct lemurs in Madagascar learned that they, like the living lemurs, are descended from a single primate ancestor that colonized the island 60 million years ago (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n30/story16.html).
Monkey economics. Research with capuchin monkeys shows they share the human economic trait of working harder to avoid losing money -- or tokens to get food rewards in the monkeys' case -- than to acquire gains (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n31/story4.html).
Bomb detectors. Sensors to detect suicide bombers before they can reach a target would not substantially reduce deaths and injuries, so money would be better spent on intelligence-gathering efforts (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n31/story3.html).
Melanoma drug. Scientists have pinpointed specific gene and protein amplification overproduction in metastatic melanoma that may lead to new drugs to treat the disease (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n31/story26.html).
Female dysfunction. Female sexual dysfunction affects 48.2% of women and may have a neurological cause (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n31/story29.html).
Plants and viruses. Scientists have identified a gene that regulates programmed cell death, the main way that plants protect themselves from viruses (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n31/story16.html).
Ancient CO2. Geologists who used ancient sea algae to trace the carbon dioxide levels between 45 million and 25 million years ago found that CO2 levels were up to five times higher than they are today (www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n31/story18.html).
New genetic tool. Researchers have developed a way to study the functions of genes in mice and humans by using a moveable genetic element from moths (www.yale.edu/opa/v34.n1/story13.html).
Tortoise diversity. Galapagos tortoises, which inspired Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, are even more genetically diverse than originally believed (www.yale.edu/opa/v34.n1/story14.html).
Protons in water. A team used infrared laser light to identify the "signatures" of protons in water (www.yale.edu/opa/v34.n1/story15.html).
Flower development. Scientists used "gene trapping" to reveal how flower development is controlled (www.yale.edu/opa/v34.n1/story18.html).
Alcohol and lymphoma. People who drink alcohol have a lower risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma than non-drinkers (www.yale.edu/opa/v34.n1/story20.html).
The following are among the distinctions earned by Yale faculty members in the past few months:
National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Michael Donoghue and Dr. Steven Herbert received one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a U.S. scientist or engineer: election as fellows of the NAS. Donoghue is the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Herbert is the C.N.H. Long Professor and chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the School of Medicine.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). This year five Yale faculty members and a Yale trustee were elected to the AAAS, which was founded in 1780 by John Adams and other leaders of the young republic. They are: Jack Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment; Truman Bewley, the Alfred Cowles Professor and dean of graduate studies in economics; Stephen Morris, the Irving Fisher Professor of Economics (see endowed chairs story, page 14); Anna Pyle, the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Michael Wallerstein, professor of political science; and Yale trustee and alumna Maya Lin '81 B.A., '86 M.Arch.
Tony Awards. Two members of the School of Drama faculty -- set designer and adjunct professor Michael Yeargan '73 YSD and costume designer and associate professor Jess Goldstein '78 YC -- were among the nine Yale graduates who won Tony Awards this year.
The following grants were awarded to the School of Medicine:
* $17 million from the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative -- funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -- to genetically engineer mice with immune systems that are similar enough to humans' to aid the testing of potential vaccines.
* $6.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish a microarray center for research on the nervous system.
* $1 million from the Gerber Foundation to support a Yale-based, multi-institutional study of necrotizing enterocolitis, the most common cause of gastrointestinal death in premature and low-birth-weight babies.
University Librarian Alice Prochaska has been reappointed to a second, five-year term as head of Yale's world-renowned library system. In his announcement, President Richard C. Levin hailed her work strengthening the library's collections and services, as well as her "devotion to energizing the entire staff in thinking about the future of the library."
The personal papers of Louise Bryant, a pioneer female journalist who is known for her reporting on the Russian Revolution, has been acquired by Sterling Memorial Library. The papers, which were believed to be lost, were recently discovered among those of her third husband, William C. Bullitt, the first ambassador to the Soviet Union.
The Athletics Department and the Yale Library's Manuscripts and Archives are working to transfer materials about the University's sports history from the former to the latter, in order to preserve the collection and make it available to researchers. The collection encompasses photos, documents, films and banners dating from the mid-1800s to the present day.
The following members of the Yale community passed away during the summer.
Greer Allen, former University printer and senior critic in graphic design at the School of Art.
Benjamin Mordecai III, associate dean of the School of Drama and former managing director of the Yale Repertory Theatre.
John H. Ostrom, professor emeritus of geology and geophysics and curator emeritus of paleontology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Dick R. Wittink, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the School of Management.
T H I S
While You Were Away:
The Summer's Top Stories Revisited
University launches Urban Teaching Initiative
Yale to offer all undergrads overseas opportunities
New trustee elected
Diabetes expert Grey named dean of School of Nursing
School of Art dean to step down
Faculty appointed to endowed professorships
College masters reappointed
Project adding music education to city curriculum
New funds and scholarships
Recent scientific and medical discoveries
Honors and awards
Grants to fund medical research
What's new and renewed at the Yale Library
In Memoriam
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
University greets its newest freshmen
Freshman Address by President Richard C. Levin
Freshman Address by Yale College Dean Peter Salovey
President of China to speak at Yale Sept. 8
New dean to promote 'values' seminars at SOM
Scientists correct key error in measurement of global warming
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
Joel Podolny named Beinecke Professor of Management
Emilie Townes is appointed to Andrew Mellon Professorship
Thomas Troeger is designated as the Cox Lantz ProfessorGrant to support research into reducing pain of pediatric surgery
Invitation to Yale community: Meet the new World Fellows
University celebrates Sterling Library's 75th anniversary
Conference will focus on role of religion in public life
Yale engages in special community projects during 'Days of Caring'
Yale hockey star Helen Resor is picked for U.S. Women's National Team
Descendents of John Davenport to converge on campus
The Cinema at Whitney, a new film society, begins weekly screenings
Heart-attack patients seeking after-hours care . . .
While You Were Away: The Summer's Top Stories Revisited
Cell biologist named Bayer Fellow
IN MEMORIAM
Abraham Goldstein, former dean and criminal law scholar
John-Michael Montias, economist and expert on Vermeer
Drama school hosts a memorial tribute to . . . Benjamin MordecaiCampus Notes
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