Craig selected for Team USA
Yale senior fullback Taylor Craig was one of the 45 players who made up Team USA at the 2007 World Championship of American Football July 7-15 in Kawasaki, Japan.
Craig, a 2006 second-team All-Ivy selection, earned Yale's Jim Keppel Award as the team's offensive back of
the year.
Lauren Taylor, a junior midfielder in lacrosse, was named the All-Ivy League's Player of the Year, the first Bulldog to receive that honor in the 27 years it has been awarded.
Taylor currently leads the country in goals per game and is sixth in the country and first in the Ivy League in points per game.
Five other members of the lacrosse team earned All-Ivy honors: Jess Champion, Ellen Cameron, Lindsay Levin, Jenn Warden and Kat Peetz.
Dr. Cindy Miller, associate professor of diagnostic radiology, received the Jack O. Haller Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society of Pediatric Radiology.
The award is given in memory of Jack O. Haller, who "excelled as an educator, mentor and author. His ability and enthusiasm stimulated many young medical students and residents to pursue a career in pediatric radiology," the society said in a statement.
Miller was honored because "she has demonstrated her outstanding ability to educate trainees (medical student, resident and fellow) and she has shown sustained substantial excellence in mentorship."
The Society of Pediatric Radiology is a professional medical organization dedicated to being the leader in advancing pediatric health care through medical imaging and image-related therapy.
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded a four-year challenge grant of $220,000 to the Department of Ophthalmology to spur the development
of advanced research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
The research will be directed by Dr. James C. Tsai, the Robert R. Young Professor of Ophthalmology and chair of the department. Tsai has focused the energies of the department's basic scientists and clinicians towards forming collaborations that will result in promising translational research.
RPB is the world's leading voluntary organization supporting eye research. Since it was founded in 1960, RPB has channeled hundreds of millions of dollars to medical institutions throughout the United States for research into all blinding eye diseases.
Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at the Yale Cancer Center, was presented with a Statesman Award by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) at its annual meeting in Chicago.
The award pays tribute to ASCO members whose significant contributions and volunteer efforts have contributed to the betterment of the society. This year, the award gives special recognition to outstanding past achievement.
Director of the Cancer Center from 1993 to 2003, DeVita currently serves as chair of the Cancer Center advisory board and is a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology and public health. In 1980, President Ronald Reagan appointed him as director of the National Cancer Institute and the National Cancer Program, a position he held until 1988. DeVita currently serves on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and is the author or co-author of more than 450 scientific articles.
Mark Malloch Brown, the spring 2007 Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG), has been appointed by the new prime minister of the U.K., Gordon Brown, to be the minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations. He has also been conferred with a lifetime peerage.
Prior to coming to Yale, Lord Malloch Brown served as U.N. deputy secretary-general from the spring of 2006 until January 2007. During his tenure there, he deputized for secretary-general Kofi Annan across the full array of the U.N.'s global functions.
YCSG serves as a link between academia and the realm of public policy. The center awards visiting fellowships to distinguished individuals who influence policy-making and generate ideas for seizing globalization's opportunities and overcoming its challenges.
Bernard Chaet, Professor Emeritus of Drawing and Painting, was recently honored at the 182nd annual National Academy and Museum.
Chaet won the 2007 Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize, his fifth prize from the National Academy since 1997.
Also included in the exhibition, "An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art" in New York City, was a painting from William Bailey, Professor Emeritus of Painting, who won the Benjamin Altman prize.
Dr. Alan Dardik, assistant professor of vascular surgery, was elected to distinguished fellow status of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS).
Dardik's election was based upon his "scholarly research activities, creative professional activities and broadly recognized teaching excellence." Dardik has received numerous research awards, including the E.J. Wylie Traveling Fellowship, the Franklin Martin Faculty Research Fellowship and, most recently, the William J. von Liebig (K08) award.
SVS is a not-for-profit medical society that seeks to advance excellence and innovation in vascular health through education, advocacy, research and public awareness. SVS is the national advocate for 2,400 vascular surgeons dedicated to the prevention and cure of vascular disease.
T H I S
Lacrosse players earn All-Ivy honors
Miller receives teaching award of excellence
Ophthalmology department awarded grant
DeVita honored by ASCO
Malloch Brown named to British Cabinet
National Academy and Museum honors artists Chaet and Bailey
Society of Vascular Surgeons honors Dardik for his research and teaching excellence
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Gift of $10 million to support work of China Law Center
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Alumni earn Yale Medals for service to their alma mater
Newly renovated Cross Campus Library to open in the fall
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Ira Millstein is again named 'Corporate Lawyer of the Year'
MacMillan Center awards book prize to French professor Maurice Samuel
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