Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 23, 2005|Volume 34, Number 4

Campus Notes

MB&B professor Lynne Regan elected to scientific council

Lynne Regan, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and professor of chemistry, was elected to serve on the Biophysical Society Council.

The Biophysical Society, founded in 1956, is a professional, scientific society established to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. The society promotes growth in this expanding field through its annual meeting, monthly journal, and committee and outreach activities. Its members are located throughout the United States and the world, where they teach and conduct research in colleges, universities, laboratories, government agencies and industry.

Chang to contribute to Chinese book series

Kang-i Sun Chang, professor of Chinese literature, has been chosen as one of the five sinologists to contribute book manuscripts to the new Fudan Series of World Distinguished Sinologists.

The series will be published by Fudan University Press. The managing editor of the series will be be Cao Jin, a professor at Fudan University who was a visiting scholar at the Council on East Asian Studies earlier this year.

LaPalombara wins honors for his work

Joseph LaPalombara, professor emeritus of management and the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, received two honors in recent weeks.

On Aug. 31, the National Democratic Institute of Washington, D.C., held a conference on "Political Parties and Political Development," in honor of the 40th anniversary of the publication of a volume by that title that was written and edited by LaPalombara and Myron Weiner.

On Sept. 2, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, the Conference Group for the Study of Italian Society and Politics named LaPalombara as the first recipient of its Career Achievement Award in Recognition of a Distinguished Career in the Field of Italian Studies.

Doctoral students receive fellowships from
American Council of Learned Societies

Two Yale affiliates were awarded fellowships by the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Fellowship Program in American Art.

John Curley, doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Art, received a fellowship to work on his project, titled "Blurred Ideologies: Cold War Visuality and the Art of Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter, 1950-1968."

Ethan Lasser, also a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Art, received a fellowship to work on "The Figure in the Grain: Furniture, Merchants and the Imagination in Boston, 1660-1800."

The fellowships, of $22,500 each, permit scholars holding the Ph.D. or equivalent to devote a full year to research and writing.

The mission of ACLS is to "advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies."

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

YEPH offers joint degree program for undergrads

In Focus: Urban Resources Initiative

Crown Prince of Bahrain visits Yale

700 new welcome mats ... and counting

Endowment funds grow to $15.2 billion

Moore Foundation grant supports joint SOM/F&ES degree program

Event celebrates the legacy of . . . Robin Winks

Bulldogs' home opener is Employee Day at the Bowl

Program showcases how museum turned itself 'Inside/Out'

Early signs of diabetes exist before symptoms appear, study shows

Study resolves 'conflicting' theories about schizophrenia

Expert on butterfly and ant interactions to visit as Tetelman Fellow

'Francis Conversations' continue with reading by author

Boris Bittker, expert on tax law and adviser to many deans

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes