Constitution Day celebration Jeffrey Alexander, the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and
co-director of the Center for Cultural Sociology, was awarded the 2007 Theory
Prize from the American Sociological Association (ASA) for an outstanding article.
T H I S
Constitution Day will be celebrated with talks and readings from the Constitution
by members of the Yale community on Monday, Sept. 17, at 12:15 p.m. on Beinecke
Plaza (rain location: Connecticut Hall).
Those interested in attending are encouraged to bring their lunch.
SOM experts named ‘Most Influential Players’
Three corporate governance experts at the School of Management have been named
to Directorship magazine’s list of the 100 “Most Influential Players
in Corporate Governance.”
Ira Millstein, senior associate dean for corporate governance; Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
senior associate dean for executive programs and the Lester Crown Professor in
the Practice of Management; and Stephen Davis, program director and fellow of
the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, were named to
the list.
Published in the September issue of Directorship, the list recognizes “those
who are driving the corporate governance agenda inside America’s boardrooms.” The
individuals were selected from nominations by readers and a panel of 12 experts.
Staff added to Peking-Yale program
Two new staff members have been added to the team managing the Peking University-Yale
University Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing.
Amy Weber will serve as the on-campus coordinator for the joint program. She
has recently completed her M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia
University. Weber participated in Columbia’s summer program at Peking University
and, while an undergraduate at the University of New Mexico, in CET’s semester-long
academic program in Beijing.
Ningping Yu will serve as acting resident director for the program. Yu received
her Ph.D. in American studies at the University of Iowa, and her B.A. and M.A.
at Sonoma State University in California. Prior to teaching Chinese at Simon
Fraser University, she served as the resident director for the Council on International
Educational Exchange’s program at Nanjing University and as an associate
professor at Nanjing. She has authored, edited and translated a number of texts
including several in women’s studies.
Narendra receives Walton Visitor Award
Kumpati S. Narendra, the Harold W. Cheel Professor of Electrical Engineering,
has received the Walton Visitor Award of the Science Foundation of Ireland for
the academic year 2007-2008, for his proposal, “Stability and Convergence
in Control, Communication and Biological Systems.”
The E.T.S. Walton Visitors Award Program was established to enable highly qualified
academic and industrial researchers resident outside Ireland to carry out research
projects of their own choice in Ireland. Of the 12 recipients of the award this
year, four are from the United States. The award provides Narendra $80,000 for
a three-month period.
Narendra’s research has focused on how artificial neural networks can be
used to identify and control nonlinear dynamic systems with uncertainty.
Work is currently in progress in his group on stability and instability in switching
systems and adaptation in rapidly time-varying environments.
Faculty appointments
President Richard C. Levin recently announced three faculty appointments:
Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and
Comparative Literature, as acting chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
during the 2008 spring term;
Millicent Marcus, professor of Italian, as chair of the Department of Italian
for a three-year term, effective July 1; and
Dr. Bernard Lytton, the Donald Guthrie Professor Emeritus of Surgery (Urology),
as director of the Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty for a three-year term,
effective July 1.
Music graduates win ASCAP awards
Three recent Master of Music graduates of the School of Music received ASCAP
Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.
The awards are granted annually to encourage talented young American composers.
Winning composers share over $30,000 in prize money.
The Yale graduates are Jacob M. Cooper, Melissa J. Mazzoli and Zachary R. Wadsworth.
Kalyvas wins APSA award
Stathis Kalyvas, the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, received
the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association
(APSA).
The prize, awarded jointly this year, was for the best book published in the
United States during the previous calendar year on government, politics or international
affairs. Kalyvas won for his book “The Logic of Violence in Civil War.”
The APSA is the leading professional organization for the study of politics and
has over 14,000 members in 80 countries.
Zhao named fellow of IMS
Hongyu Zhao, professor of biostatistics at the School of Public Health, has been
named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
The IMS honored Zhao for his “fundamental contributions to statistical
genomics, genetic epidemiology and computational biology,” as well as for
editorial services and for his “training of graduate and postdoctoral students.”
Established in 1933, the IMS fosters the development and dissemination of theory
and applications of statistics and probability. It has 4,500 active members internationally.
Selected from 48 nominees, Zhao is one of only 23 members to be honored as a
fellow this year. Approximately 5% of active IMS members have earned fellowship
status.
Kaplanoff Librarian announced
Gregory Eow has joined the University Library as Kaplanoff Librarian for American
History and American Studies in the Department of Research Services and Collections
at Sterling Memorial Library.
Eow comes to Yale from Rice University in Houston, where he completed his Ph.D.
in American history while working as a government information Librarian in Rice’s
Fondren Library.
The Kaplanoff Librarianship was endowed by the estate of Mark Kaplanoff (1949-2001),
Yale Class of 1970. Kaplanoff was a distinguished lecturer in American history
at Cambridge University and a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Alexander article is cited by sociology association
The award was for Alexander’s article “Cultural Pragmatics: Social
Performance Between Ritual and Strategy,” published in Sociological Theory
in 2004.
The Theory Prize recognizes “outstanding work in theory, communicates
the principle that theory is plural and broadly defined, and promotes the interests
of the Theory Section of ASA.” The prize is given for a book or for an
article, book chapter, or published or publicly presented paper.
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Grant to fund study of stress & self-control
Award-winning researcher named new engineering dean
Zipcar service offers environmentally friendly travel option
Community invited to meet World Fellows at open house, series
FRESHMAN ADDRESSESBritton reappointed to second term as Berkeley Divinity School dean
Development Office announces new associate vice presidents
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
Dr. Richard Belitsky is the Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor
James Duncan is named the Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor
Dr. Erol Fikrig appointed the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor
Dr. Sally Shaywitz is designated the Audrey Ratner Professor
‘Art for Yale’ celebrates ‘outpouring of gifts’ to gallery
Team seeking key to unlock link between stress and addictive behavior
School of Public Health creates new deanship in academic affairs
F&ES student working to insure survival of the snow leopard
Yale Rep opens its new season with Shakespeare classic
New York Times columnist to offer ‘Mobile Gadget Show-and-Tell’
New works by painter and printmaker Nathan Margalit . . .
While You Were Away ...
Biomass energy is the topic of talk by award-winning engineer
In Memoriam: Biochemists Joseph Fruton and Sofia Simmonds
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