Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 15, 2008|Volume 36, Number 18

Bulletin Board

Kindergarten open house

The Phyllis Bodel Childcare Center at the School of Medicine will hold an open house for its kindergarten program at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22.

Three slots in the program are available for the fall. A scholarship is also available. The program is full-day, before and after school care included, with a full summer program.

The event will take place at Harkness Dormitory, 367 Cedar St. For more information, call (203) 785-3829.

Screenwriting competition

Yale Summer Session in association with Yale Summer Film Institute is accepting applications for a screenwriting competition.

Winning entries will be produced and exhibited in the Intensive Filmmaking and Acting in Film workshops.

Applicants should submit a 12-15 page screenplay draft in industry standard screenplay form using one of the structures provided on the website: www.yale.edu/summer/film/contest.html. Stories should be character driven, focusing on an age range between 18 and 28. Scripts will be judged on quality and practicality.

Submit first draft to Yale Summer Script Contest, P.O. Box 208355, New Haven, CT 06520-8355. Applications should include name, e-mail, phone number and school affiliation, if any. Applicants may also send a PDF file to OjedaFilms@aol.com with the same information.

Initial entries must be submitted no later than March 31.

Radiothon fundraiser

The Tommy Fund at Yale-New Haven Hospital will host a radio broadcast on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 28 and 29, to raise funds in support of the fight against childhood cancer.

The radiothon will be broadast live on WPLR 99.1 FM, from 5:30 a.m. through midnight on Feb. 28 and 5:30 a.m. through 10 a.m. on Feb. 29. During those hours, listeners may call (866) 96-TOMMY to donate to the fund, which supports children with cancer and their families and works to improve the cure rate of childhood cancer.

The Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer acts as a helping hand to the pediatric oncology department at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital and the Yale Cancer Center. Through collaborative efforts, they are able to diagnose and provide treatment to children with blood disorders and malignancies and conduct research and teaching in the field of childhood cancer.

For more information, visit www.tommyfund.org.

Teaching series

The Collaborative Learning Center in the Bass Library is offering “Teaching with Technology Tuesdays,” a new weekly program for those teaching at Yale who are interested in innovative instructional activities that utilize technology.

Representatives from across the University, including the Library, ITS, the Center for Language Study, Yale College, the Graduate Teaching Center and others, will provide short, informal sessions to introduce some of these approaches. Sessions are held every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to noon in Bass Library room L01 (lower level). Upcoming sessions will look at social bookmarking software, digital primary source collections and photo sharing applications. The full schedule can be found at http://clc.yale.edu. For more information, send an e-mail to barbara.rockenbach@yale.edu.

The Collaborative Learning Center is a resource for the Yale community designed to foster dynamic interactions among students, faculty and staff from across the University in the support of teaching and learning.

Exhibition on “Missionary Journeys”

An exhibition titled “Stories of Adventure and Peril from the Day Missions Collection” is currently on view at the Divinity School library.

The exhibition contains a sampling of manuscript and published works from the library’s renowned Day Missions collection that describes missionary journeys from the 17th century through the first half of the 20th century. Letters, journals, photographs and published works provide a glimpse of the exotic destinations, perilous adventures, ground breaking exploration and unique experiences of missionaries who set out to spread the gospel. The exhibition will be on view through July.

The Divinity Library is located at 409 Prospect St. For more information, visit the library’s website at www.library.yale.edu/div/divhome.htm.

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

Geneticist cited for research on hypertension

Researcher focuses on heredity in quest to understand . . .

Exhibit traces linkages on the ‘Tree of Life’

‘Rolling’ offers honest, sometimes shocking, look at life in a wheelchair

Study: Older women more likely to suffer depression than older men

Researchers seeking new test for detecting kidney injury . . .

Yale Rheumatic Diseases Research Center awarded $3.2 million . . .

One Law Clinic, Two Cities

Conference will look at issues surrounding nuclear disarmament

Former Yale architecture dean to give Chubb Lecture

Study gives high marks to use of bypass surgery for those in their 90s

Yale Ob-Gyn researchers discussed current work . . .

Several Yale Ob-Gyn presentations are awarded honors at meeting

Judith Resnik wins prestigious honor for her ‘outstanding scholarship’ . . .

Lectures explore mythmaking in Hollywood westerns

Panel will explore ways to promote diverse faculties

‘Images 2008’ exhibition includes works by three Yale staff members

Memorial service for Dr. Barry Goldberg

Yale affiliates to be honored guests at benefit event for LEAP

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