Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 2, 2007|Volume 35, Number 20

Campus Notes

Yale cross country teams recognized with All-Academic honors

The men's and women's cross country teams have been selected for all-academic cross country team honors by the U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

For the twelfth straight season, the Yale men's cross country team has been selected for Division I All-Academic Cross Country Team honors. Yale had the third-highest cumulative grade-point average (3.530) of all the teams honored nationwide.

The women's cross country team earned Division I All-Academic Cross Country Team honors by the USTFCCCA. Lindsay Donaldson, a junior, earned individual honors. The Bulldogs had the second-highest GPA (3.510) among all of the Ivy League teams honored.

To be honored as an All-Academic Team, teams must compete in an NCAA regional meet and have at least a cumulative team GPA of 3.0.

For more information, visit www.yalebulldogs.com.

Cancer Center conference addressed palliative care

The Yale Cancer Center hosted the first annual "Pain and Palliative Care Conference: Demanding Excellence in Palliative and Hospice Care" on Jan. 10 and 11 at the Anlyan Center.

Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Hospice, the American Cancer Society and the American Society of Pain Management Nursing, the symposium was attended by over 200 healthcare providers from throughout the state.

Topics addressed by the speakers included treatment of pain through advanced interventional and radiology techniques, and the management of non-pain symptoms.

All lectures from the conference will be posted in the coming weeks on the Yale Cancer Center website, www.yalecancercenter.org, along with a newly released newsletter, titled YaleCares!

Thompson delivers Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures

Robert Farris Thompson, the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, delivered the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture series at Harvard University last month.

Farris's topic was "The Grand Atlantic Kongo Tradition; Art Histories of Ecstasy and Law."

The lecture series brings "a distinguished person to deliver three lectures on one unified subject in any area of African- American or African cultural studies or public policy." Previous speakers included Marian Wright Edelman, Cornel West and Lani Guinier.

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Study reveals why microbe is a threat to troops in Iraq

Seven Yale students win Gates Scholarships for study in Cambridge

Reaching into the Past: Rare Books at Yale Law School

Team identifies gene that may cause autism in children

Yale Library honors 'sometimes shocking, always subtle' poet

Awards to fund scientists' work on robots, synapses and physics of light

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Conference on Japan to honor Yale scholar's legacy

Yale Cancer Center announces new medical director for medical oncology

Drama student Alvin McCraney wins first annual Vogel Playwriting Award

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Campus Notes