Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 15, 2008|Volume 36, Number 18

Campus Notes

All-Ivy linebacker Bobby Abare is new football team captain

Linebacker Bobby Abare has been elected captain of the 2008 Yale football team by a player vote.

Abare helped the Bulldogs to a 17-3 record over the past two seasons, including a 12-2 Ivy League mark and the 2006 Ivy title. He was named honorable mention All-America last year after leading the team in tackles for the second straight season. The Bulldogs were first in the Football Championship Subdivision in scoring defense, allowing only 13.7 points per game.

Abare was named first team All-Ivy and All-New England for the second time this past season. The new Yale captain is a political science major and member of Jonathan Edwards College.

Dr. Irwin Braverman lauded for teaching

Dr. Irwin M. Braverman, professor of dermatology, was awarded the Lifetime Educator Award from the Dermatology Foundation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology held in San Antonio earlier this month.

Fred Shapiro is finalist for Connecticut Book Award

Fred R. Shapiro, associate librarian for collections and access and lecturer in legal research at the Law School, was named a finalist in the non-fiction category for the 2007 Connecticut Book Award, given by the Connecticut Center for the Book. Shapiro was nominated for “The Yale Book of Quotations,” published by Yale University Press.

Hilary Witt inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame

Hilary Witt, head coach of the women’s hockey team, was inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame. It is the second Hall of Fame Witt has been inducted to in the last two years.

A 2001 graduate of Northeastern, Witt was inducted into the Huskies’ Hall of Fame in 2005. She is in her seventh season at Yale, and sixth as head coach. The team’s 63 wins in her first five seasons as head coach are one more than Yale had in the 13 seasons prior to her arrival combined.

Allen Forte to present series on Cole Porter

Allen Forte, the Battell Professor of Music Theory Emeritus, is presenting a weekly series of 12 lectures at Harvard University’s Department of Music.

The series, titled “Cole Porter’s Life in Music,” began on Feb. 5. Forte’s book of the same title is scheduled to be published this year.

Grant for cutting-edge scientists is given to ob/gyn researcher Dr. Marsha Guess

Dr. Marsha K. Guess, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, has received a $416,000 award from the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This competitive grant was awarded to expand support for “industrious young scientists, investigating new and cutting-edge translational and clinical research in the study of human disease.” Guess focuses her research on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the development of pelvic organ prolapse.

In 2007 Guess received the National Institutes of Health, Clinical and Translational Science Award.

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

Campus Notes