Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 22

Campus Notes

Steven Marans attends forum hosted by queen of Spain

Steven Marans, director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence and professor of child psychiatry and psychiatry at the Child Study Center, was invited by Queen Sofia of Spain to participate in her 10th International Forum on Children and Violence in Valencia, Spain, on March 1 and 2.

The conference was attended by experts on children and violence from around the world and is a celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the Center for the Study of Violence. Marans spoke on the psychological effects of terrorism on children and also participated in a round table discussion concerning the importance of protecting and defending children's rights when it comes to violence exposure and child abuse.

Student journalist wins scholarship for essay on Darfur

Elizabeth Dickinson, a senior in Yale College, was recently awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club (OPC) Foundation Scholarship at the foundation's annual scholarship luncheon held at the Yale Club in New York City.

Dickinson was among 12 students selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of applicants from 65 different colleges and universities. Her winning essay described the nearly 25,000 Dakar flood victims forced to live in government camps while the struggling democracy in Senegal failed to deliver on its promise to rebuild their neighborhoods.

Dickinson won the Harper's Magazine Scholarship given in memory of I.F. Stone, the legendary investigative reporter.

The OPC Foundation is the nation's largest scholarship program encouraging aspiring journalists to pursue careers as foreign correspondents.

Yale Schola Cantorum conductors honored at national convention

Yale Schola Cantorum, the 24-voice chamber choir specializing in music from before 1750 and the last hundred years, was selected to perform at the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) earlier this month.

The ensemble, which is supported by the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) and the School of Music, performed three concerts for an audience of approximately 6,000 choral conductors from around the world.

Sooyeon Lee, a first-year choral conducting student at ISM and the School of Music, took top honors in the ACDA national conducting competitition, graduate division.

Dominick DiOrio, also a choral conducting student, was the 2006 recipient of the Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Prize.

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

Changes to enrich 'middle years' for Ph.D. candidates

Saturday series again will prove 'science is fun'

In Focus: Challenge Survivorship Clinic

Former president of Chile to give a public address on campus . . .

Yale astronomers conclude their tribute to one of their 'stars'

Study: Public polarized regarding safety of nanotechnology

Of genetic switches and misfolded RNAs . . .

Women's Faculty Forum hosts events exploring issues faced by . . .

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS

NIH grant will advance research on neurons' role in narcolepsy

Donaghue Foundation awards fund projects related to elderly, epilepsy

Brain's 'default mode' is abnormal in patients with schizophrenia . . .

Ob/Gyn researchers announce new findings at recent scientific meeting