Levin announces new departmental chairs
President Richard C. Levin has announced the following faculty appointments: Laura Engelstein, the Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History, as chair of the Department of History, and Stephen Morse, the Dudley Professor of Engineering, as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Both terms will be for a period of three years, effective July 1.
The website of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, at www.yaleruddcenter.org, has been selected for inclusion in Dorland's Healthcare Website Guide.
This independent directory service searches the Internet for top sources of information on prevalent diseases and conditions. An expert advisory board then rates websites for the quality of their content and their usefulness for patients and health care professionals. Websites that receive the highest scores from the advisory board appear in the guide.
Unlike directories that solicit funds from the organizations they list, Dorland's is an objective source supported by subscribers. It is intended for use by consumers and healthcare professionals as a map to the best resources on the World Wide Web.
Annette Molinaro, assistant professor in the division of biostatistics at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, has been elected a member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
The ISI, established in 1885, is one of the oldest international scientific associations active today. The institute is an autonomous society which seeks to develop and improve statistical methods and their application through the promotion of international activities and cooperation. It is composed of approximately 2,000 elected members from more than 133 countries.
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has named the 1992 book, "Effective Care of the Newborn Infant," edited by Michael B. Bracken, the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology, professor of neurology and of obstetrics and gynecology, and Dr. Jack Sinclair, one of the landmark publications that have influenced how the medical community views evidence-based medicine. Evidence-based medicine has been named as one of the 15 most important medical milestones since 1840.
Bracken's primary research interest is the epidemiology of diseases of pregnancy and newborns, emphasizing environmental and genetic risks for causation and iatrogenic factors in patient care. He is the co-director of the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology.
The women's field hockey team had four players earn All-Ivy status.
Midfielder Lindsay Collins '07 and forward Harriet Thayer '08 made the first team while forward Rachel Lentz '07 and midfielder Heather Orrico '07 made the second team. Collins and Thayer were both unanimous selections. This marks just the second time in the last 16 years Yale has had two first-team selections.
Thayer has also been elected captain of the Yale field hockey team for the 2007 season. She was selected by a team vote.
T H I S
Rudd Center website listed in health resource guide
Molinaro elected to International Statistical Institute
Book about infancy by Michael Bracken lauded as landmark publication
Field hockey team wins honors, elects captain
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Yale delegates to visit China
Team casts new light on roots of primate family tree
Study boosts theory that a virus causes 'mad cow' disease
Recent graduates tackling key Yale projects as Woodbridge Fellows
Federal grant to fund ongoing, multidisciplinary research on autism
Coliseum collapse was barely a blip, seismologically speaking
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
Edward Kamens is appointed as the Sumitomo Professor
Frances Rosenbluth is designated the Damon Wells Professor
Martin Bresnick is named the Charles T. Wilson Adjunct Professor
Yale Journalism Initiative to provide support for summer work
Divinity School events to explore the Black church . . .
Symposium will examine 'The Ethics of Photography'
Third annual blood drive pits Bulldogs against Crimsons
In Memoriam: Asger Hartvig Aaboe
Drug company Marinus is focus of seminar
Dr. Edward Chu . . . appointed as deputy director of the Yale Cancer Center
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