Cozza to be featured at storytelling event
Carm Cozza, former coach of the Yale football team, will be featured in "The Moth, An Urban Storytelling Event: Summer of Love" at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 1.
The event will take place at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave. "The Moth" gathers individuals, including notable literary figures, celebrities, politicians and others, who share personal and true tales.
Tickets are $36 for regular seating; $40 for table seating. For more information, call (877) 238-5596 or visit www.smarttix.com.
The Yale School of Medicine's Center for Continuing Medical Education will host two conferences in June.
On Friday, June 1, the first annual Pulmonary Hypertension Symposium will be held at Waters Edge Conference Center, 1525 Boston Post Rd. in Westbrook. The symposium will run from 8 a.m to 5 p.m. It will focus on "the nuances of proper diagnosis and treatment of this devastating disease."
On Saturday, June 2, the second annual Yale Digestive Diseases Week Review will be held at the Waters Edge Conference Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A reception will follow. This program will provide physicians with a review of the new developments presented at Digestive Diseases Week in Washington, D.C.
For more information, contact Deborah Dunn at (203) 785-4578.
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies announced four new council chairs.
They are: Julia Adams, professor of sociology, chair of the International Affairs Council; Steven C. Pincus, professor of history, chair of the European Studies Council; Haun Saussy, the Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of East Asian languages and literatures, chair of the East Asian Studies Council; and Elisabeth Wood, professor of political science, chair of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Council. For more information, visit www.yale.edu/macmillan.
Eight undergraduates were honored for excellence in printing and design -- in both letterpress and digital media -- at the May 9 Lohmann Prize ceremony held in the Arts of the Book Room of Sterling Memorial Library.
The principal prize was shared by Emma Kurose for her accordion-bound letterpress and pochoir book, Nicholas Seaver for his sculptural letterpress book, and Iris Shih for her letterpress and silkscreen book.
The Lohmann Prize was established in 1967 to honor the memory of Carl C. Lohmann, Class of 1910. He was a founding member of the Honourable Company of College Printers, Yale's undergraduate printing organization, as well as of the Whiffenpoofs. Lohmann was secretary of the University from 1927 to 1953, Yale's longest-serving secretary.
The Yale-New Haven Stroke Center and the Department of Neurology at the School of Medicine will sponsor the first annual Lawrence M. Brass Memorial Stroke Symposium, "Primary and Secondary Stroke Prevention Updates," for health care professionals on Friday, June 15.
The symposium will be held 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St. Dr. Joseph Schindler, director of the Stroke Center, and other leading experts in cerebrovascular disease will discuss stroke center certification; stroke epidemiology; antithrombotic therapy; blood pressure and statin therapies; diabetes and stroke; sleep and stroke; transient ischemic attack; carotid endarterectomy and stenting; and neuroimaging and stroke.
The symposium will also include a remembrance of Brass, the former medical director of the cerebrovascular center at Yale-New Haven Hospital and professor of neurology and epidemiology and public health at the School of Medicine.
To register or to obtain information, call (203) 785-4578 or visit www.cme.yale.edu.
T H I S
Educational conferences aimed at physicians
Four new council chairs are appointed at the MacMillan Center
Undergraduates are honored for work in printing and design
Stroke symposium will honor late medical director
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
University will hold its 306th Commencement May 28
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Global health expert to head Yale's World Fellows Program
Trachtenberg reflects on her 20 years as 'Betty T.'
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Campus celebrates its first African-American graduate
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
R. Lawrence Moss is appointed to Pritzker Chair
John A. Persing named to Polayes Professorship
Robert T. Schultz is new Harris Associate Professor
University names its first director of sustainable transportation systems
Graduate School students applaud faculty mentors
Eight faculty members elected to the AAAS
Three Yale scholars are new members of the APS
Peter Reinhardt named director of Yale's Office of Environmental ...
Kim Bottomly named president of Wellesley College
First-Year Building Program's 40th anniversary
Festival highlights 'revolutionary' artists and thinkers
Peabody Museum exhibit to showcase award-winning wildlife photography
Study finds dynamin 1 gene is critical for sophisticated brain function
Researchers examine why children (and some adults) are resistant ...
Three student scientists win Goldwater Scholarships
Archer named one of Glamour's 'Top 10 College Women'
Council of Masters presents awards to 10 juniors for their contributions
Ten Yale-China Teaching Fellows to begin appointments this summer
Top judges reach 'verdict' in law students' moot court trial
Dr. Lockwood's latest honors include 'Pulitzer Prize of the business press'
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