Friedland featured in 'The Age of AIDS' film on PBS
Dr. Gerald Friedland, professor of medicine and of epidemiology and public health, and director of the AIDS Program at the School of Medicine, will be featured in "The Age of AIDS," a film that will be broadcast on PBS on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 30 and 31, 9-11 p.m.
The four-hour film will examine one of the worst pandemics the world has ever known on the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed cases of AIDS. Over 70 million people have been infected with AIDS and 22 million have died from the disease.
American Cancer Society awards research scholar grants to faculty members
Glenn Micalizio, assistant professor of chemistry, and Ann Valentine, assistant professor of chemistry, were awarded research scholar grants from the American Cancer Society's Extramural Grants Program.
The program "seeks to support and promote high impact and innovative cancer research across a wide range of disciplines to meet critically important needs in the control of cancer." Research scholar grants provide support for investigator-initiated research projects in basic, preclinical, clinical and epidemiology research to investigators in the first six years of an independent academic career.
Diabetes series will educate patients and families about all aspects of care
The Yale Diabetes Center will host a free, four-week diabetes education series for adult patients and their families in June.
The classes will be held 4:30-6 p.m. on June 7, 14, 21 and 28 in the Dana 3 Conference Room, 789 Howard Ave. The series will cover all aspects of diabetes management, including glucose monitoring, foot care, exercise and nutrition. Geralyn Spollett, nurse practitioner in internal medicine, will be one of the featured speakers.
To reserve a space, call (203) 688-2000 or toll free, (888) 700-6543.
Douglas Brash is honored for his work on melanoma skin cancers
Douglas Brash, professor of therapeutic radiology, genetics and dermatology, received the American Skin Association Achievement Award for Skin Cancer/
Melanoma on May 4 at the Society for Investigative Dermatology meeting in Philadelphia.
Brash's principal accomplishment as relevant to the award is the discovery that the p53 tumor suppressor gene is mutated by sunlight in the course of causing non-melanoma skin cancers. His laboratory had previously identified the DNA lesions that cause UV-signature mutations, and afterward showed that UV-signature mutations are present not only in basal and squamous cell tumors, but also in precancers and normal skin, as well as in the PTCH gene of basal cell carcinomas. Brash then discovered that cells with mutant p53 are defective in UV-induced apoptosis, a process that deletes badly damaged cells so they cannot become malignant. Recently, his laboratory reported that sunlight-induced apoptosis also drives the expansion of a single mutant cell into a clone: the death-resistant mutant cell becomes surrounded by empty stem cell compartments vacated due to apoptosis, and colonizes them. These results contribute to what is perhaps the best picture available of how a human carcinogen works.
The American Skin Association is a research and advocacy non-profit organzation based in New York City. For more information, visit www.americanskin.org.
Department chair appointments and reappointment announced
President Richard C. Levin has announced the following appointments:
Joseph Chang, professor of statistics, as chair of the Department of Statistics;
Marcia Johnson, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology, as chair of the Department of Psychology;
David Joselit, professor of the history of art, as chair of the Department of the History of Art; and
Mitchell Smooke, the Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as chair
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Levin also announced the reappointment of David Quint, the George M. Bodman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, as chair of the Department of Comparative Literature.
All appointments will be for a period of three years, effective July 1.
Connolly is part of team developing website on nursing policy issues
Cindy Connolly, assistant professor at the School of Nursing and assistant professor in the history of medicine and science at the School of Medicine, is a member of a group of nurse historians who have received a major three-year grant from the National Library of Medicine.
The group, American Academy of Nursing's Expert Panel on Nursing History, received funding for a project titled "Nursing, History and Health Care Policy: A Web Resource." The website will be designed to place nursing policy issues being debated in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government in historical perspective. Subject matter will change regularly in response to shifting issues being debated in Congress. The website will provide those who shape and write legislation with a historical sense of the outcomes, as well as intended and unintended consequences of legislative initiatives and decisions made in the past.
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Blocker returning to Yale to lead School of Music
Yale historian receives special Pulitzer citation
YCIAS officially renamed as MacMillan Center
New program offers employees back-up child care
President of China Visits Yale
Campus will welcome 18 new Yale World Fellows this fall
FACULTY HONORED
Eight faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Theoretical physicist Girvin named to National Academy of Sciences
Bresnick is new member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
Alexander, Galvani and Valis . . . winners of Guggenheim Fellowships
Historian Amanat selected as Carnegie Scholar
Former airline official to lead Yale's labor-management initiatives
Yale students reduce their energy use by 10%
Anatomy lessons: Faculty testing new method of teaching medical students
'Silent Spring' author is focus of Beinecke Library exhibit
Inaugural play festival features new works by Drama School students
Three students win Morris K. Udall Scholarships . . .
Joint library project to preserve historic sound recordings . . .
Yale Press and Yale Rep launch major competition for new dramatic works
Study to explore lasting effects of early health habits
Fund and lecture named for noted neurologist
In Memoriam: Dr. Thomas T. Amatruda Jr.
Yale Dramat's 'Side Show' tells true tale of vaudeville stars . . .
Weiswasser Lecture will explore HIV prevention in teens
Student Research Day will feature Farr Lecture and . . . presentations
Symposium will explore advances in chemistry and biology
Yale College juniors honored by Council of Masters
Learning the art of wrong thinking
New memorial lectureship at Cancer Center honors Dr. Paul Calebresi . . .
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