Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 6, 2007|Volume 35, Number 24

Campus Notes

Police lieutenant McGuffey receives leadership award

Lieutenant C.J. McGuffey of the University police department received the 2006 Leadership Award from the Connecticut Association of Women in Policing last month.

McGuffey, a 13-year veteran of the department, holds a master's degree from the University of New Haven and certificates of achievement from the School of Management and the Police Executive Research Forum's Senior Management Institute for Police.

McGuffey is patrol commander on the evening shift. She plays a vital role in recruitment, promotional process and performance evaluations, and is in the process of forming a Women's Association for the female employees of the department.

'Yale Book of Quotations' wins honorable mention

Fred R. Shapiro, associate librarian for collections and access, and lecturer in legal research at the Law School, has won the 2006 Honorable Mention for Best Single-Volume Reference Book, Humanities/Social Sciences, from the Association of American Publishers for his book "The Yale Book of Quotations."

The dictionary-sized volume is a collection of more than 12,000 quotations mingling biblical proverbs; verse from poems and plays; remarks by famed historical and current-day political figures; wisdom from scholars, scientists and others; song lyrics; and more.

Shore wins the National Jewish Book Award

Marci Shore, visiting assistant professor in religious studies and in the history department, was awarded the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Eastern European studies on March 6.

The award was in recognition of Shores' book, "Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968." The award citation stated the book is "superb intellectual history that is both 'utterly original' and 'breathtaking.'"

The National Jewish Book Awards are presented annually by the Jewish Book Council.

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

Symposium will consider future of India-U.S. relations

True potential for reform in China to be explored

Symposium, workshop look at Korean film, refugee crisis

Scholars to debate best way to preserve 'global past'

Yale applauds award-winning robotics team from city school

Chubb Fellowship hosts visit by 'America's greatest living composer'

Theater artists and scholars to honor legacy of playwright August Wilson

Library exhibit showcases books that feature images of trees

Award supports research on use of nanoparticles to treat prostate cancer

Carbon dioxide levels have affected Earth's climate for . . .

Exhibit on creation of city's Holocaust memorial features . . .

Shlomchik receives award for his research on memory T-cells

Two Yale researchers receive Donaghue Investigator Awards

Symposium to showcase 'Next Generation of Legal Scholarship'

'Donate Life Week' seeks to raise awareness for organ donation

In Memoriam: Sebastian Konstantinovich Shaumyan

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes