Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 17, 2006|Volume 35, Number 11|Two-Week Issue

Campus Notes

SOM faculty members to discuss their book 'Murder in the Model City'

Douglas Rae, the Richard S. Ely Professor of Organization and Management, and Paul Bass, lecturer in media at the School of Management, will read from their book "Murder in the Model City" on Sunday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m.

The event will take place at CHOW, 966 Chapel St. Snacks and beverages will be served. Tickets are $5.

For more information, visit www.chownewhaven.com or send e-mail to debbie@bisnoproductions.com.

Thompson's 'Tango' nominated for book award

Robert Farris Thompson, the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of History of Art, has been nominated for a Connecticut Book Award for "Tango: The Art History of Love."

The awards, presented annually by the Connecticut Center for the Book, a program of Hartford Public Library, recognize and honor authors who "represent the best writing, illustration and design in, or about, our state in the previous calendar year."

The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2-3:30 p.m., in the atrium of Hartford's City Hall, 550 Main St. For more information, call (860) 695-6320 or send e-mail to klyons@hplet.org.

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

Yale launches podcast library on iTunes

Japan gives top civilian honor to Yale scholar

Lin: Great care needed in studying 'finicky' stem cells

Yale SOM renames center in honor of Ira Millstein . . .

Grant supports research on risk factors for testicular cancer

Researchers to study age-related decline of sense of smell

University begins mandatory training for faculty involved with grants

Coat color may not be indicator of species in lemurs, say researchers

Scientists trace evolution of one of the earliest multi-cellular life forms

Study shows seat of emotions in the brain may also contribute . . .

Troupe hopes to dispel stereotypes about ancient dance

Nobel laureate to give public lecture on campus

Colleagues to pay tribute to Bresnick in Carnegie Hall

T.P. Ma honored for pioneering work with semiconductors

Symposium will examine filmmaker's 'European period'

Panel will discuss reconciliation between Israelis, Palestinians

It is the jurists who will be judged at student mock trial tournament

Renowned painting to remain on view at British Art Center

Gala to raise funds for research, treatment of reproductive cancers

Campus Notes