Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 11, 2008|Volume 36, Number 14

Campus Notes

Noted translator Barbara Harshav elected president of ALTA

Barbara Harshav, lecturer in comparative literature, was elected president of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) for the next four years.

Harshav has translated over 40 works of fiction and non-fiction from French, German, Hebrew and Yiddish into English. Issued by major academic and trade publishers, these works include “Only Yesterday” by Nobel Prize-winner S.Y. Agnon and, with Benjamin Harshav, “Yehuda Amichai, A Life of Poetry.” Harshav’s most recent translation is of “Night Train to Lisbon” by Pascal Mercier, which has sold over two million copies worldwide. The translation, from the German, will be published in the United States this month.

Harshav teaches a seminar on “Translation: Theory and Practice” in the literature major at Yale College.

Keith Allain helps coach Team USA in world championship

Keith Allain, head coach of the men’s ice hockey team, served as assistant coach for Team USA at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship in Pardubice and Liberec, Czech Republic, Dec. 26-Jan. 5.

Allain has worked with teams at four different world championships including the lead role for the 2001 and 2002 world junior teams.

Internationally recognized Yale neurosurgeon elected president of American Epilepsy Society

Dr. Dennis D. Spencer, the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosugery and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, was elected president of the American Epilepsy Society (AES).

Spencer is internationally recognized in the surgical treatment of neurological diseases causing epilepsy. He developed a widely used surgical approach to temporal lobe epilepsy, one of the most common forms of the disorder. His current research of human epileptigenic tissue is helping to define the cellular and metabolic mechanisms by which epilepsy develops.

AES is the professional society for physicians and scientists who study and treat epilepsy. The disease is the third most common neurological disorder in adults after Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. It affects 50 million worldwide, including three million in the United States.

Noted Yale immunobiologist wins award from AAI

Richard A. Flavell, chair of the Department of Immunobiology, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is the winner of the 2008 Invitrogen Meritorious Career Award from the American Association of Immunologists (AAI).

Since 1999, the AAI has recognized an established scientist for “outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology.” The recipient receives a plaque, a $10,000 cash award and travel support to attend the AAI annual meeting. The awardee is required to present his or her work at an award ceremony at the meeting, which this year will be held April 5-9 in San Diego.

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

University is increasing payout from endowment

Stern named to third term as dean of School of Architecture

Findings set stage for prevention of epilepsy

Antibody may delay development of diabetes

Scientists determine intricate process used in assembly . . .

Mutant gene identified as ‘villain’ in hardening of the arteries

Researchers find gene that protects newborns . . .

Yale Rep stages the world premiere of ‘The Evildoers’

Exhibit reveals the ways in which mathematics . . .

Advocates for universal preschools win Grawemeyer Award . . .

Two medical school researchers win awards . . .

Lewis Walpole Library celebrates re-opening with exhibition

Peabody to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with festival

Stanton Wheeler, was musician, master, sociologist and sports fan

Change of venue for Waith memorial

Campus Notes