Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 21, 2008|Volume 36, Number 22

Campus Notes

Fundraising event will help support Connecticut Mental Health Center

A fundraiser for the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) will be held 4-6 p.m. on Sunday, March 30, in the Brü Room at BAR, 254 Crown St.

The event will consist of beer tasting and pizza, as well as a symposium on beer-making. Live music will be provided by Steven Pertesis.

Tickets are $20 in advance; $25 at the door. For more information, contact Susan Woodall at (203) 974-7089 or susan.woodall@yale.edu.

The CMHC is a collaborative endeavor of the Department of Psychiatry and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Its mission includes providing clinical services, education, research and community problem solving.

The center provides comprehensive psychiatric services to residents of the greater New Haven area. Clinical services are focused on patients who are poor and who suffer severe psychiatric and addictive illnesses and disability.

Book discussion

The Italian Cultural Institute in New York City will host Noa Steimatsky, associate professor of the history of art and of film studies, in a discussion of her book, “Italian Locations; Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema.”

The event will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1, at the institute, located at 686 Park Ave. The roundtable discussants will include P. Adams Sitney of Princeton University, Ruth Ben Ghiat of New York University and Dave Kehr, a film critic.

To reserve a place, call (212) 879-4242, extension 363.

Pache wins award

Corinne Ondine Pache, associate professor of classics, has been named a winner of the Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching.

The award recognizes the curricular design of the courses Pache has taught in classics and classical civilization and “the devotion and care she has brought to the teaching of those courses.”

Discussion on ethics of scientific disclosure

Peter J. Snyder, professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University of Connecticut and a visiting professor at the Child Study Center, and Dr. Linda C. Mayes, the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Development, professor of pediatrics, of psychology, and of epidemiology and public health, will discuss the ethics of scientific disclosure next month.

The event, “Delgado’s Brave Bulls and the Ethics of Scientific Disclosure,” will be held on Tuesday, April 15, at 100 Deepwood Drive in Hamden. Wine and

hor’dourves will be served at 4:30 p.m.; the discussion will follow at 5:30 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public. Advance registration by April 7 is required. To register, visit www.axion.org or call (203) 773-9300, extension 206.

Blatt honored

The November 2007 special issue of the Israel Journal of Psychiatry honored Sidney J. Blatt, professor of psychiatry and psychology, for “invaluable contribution to the understanding of personality processes in development, psychopathology, and the therapeutic process, as well as to Israeli clinical psychology and psychiatry.” The journal also cited Blatt’s “mentoring, advising and publishing with numerous Israeli psychologists and psychiatrists, some of whom now occupy leading positions in Israeli academia and its mental health establishment.”

Israeli scholars and clinicians contributed papers to the volume, commenting on aspects of Blatt’s theoretical, empirical and clinical contributions.

Patrizio named distinguished lecturer

Dr. Pasquale Patrizio, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was named the “Distinguished Lecturer” at the Shirley Dungan Kheel Memorial Lecure at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.

The Jones Institute was the first center in the United States to perform IVF resulting in a live birth. Each year, a physician is chosen from the international community to present a lecture and receive the award.

Bell honored by futurists

Wendell Bell, professor emeritus of sociology, was recently honored by the Association of Professional Futurists who voted his two-volume work, “Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era,” to be among the top 10 “most important futures works” in the recent past as well as the classics.

Bell’s volumes were ranked second after Peter Schwartz’s “Art of the Long View,” and ahead of many other works including Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock” and Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History.”

Field hockey team lauded

The Yale field hockey team earned the ZAG/NFHCA National Academic Team Award this month. The Bulldogs also placed 11 individuals on the ZAG/NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad.

The team award is presented to all teams that had a GPA of 3.0 or higher for the fall of 2007. The National Academic Squad recognizes those student-athletes who have achieved a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.30 through the first semester of the 2007-2008 academic year.

Rosenbaum to receive honorary degree

Joel Rosenbaum, professor of cell and molecular biology, will receive an honorary degree in May from the University of Siena.

Rosenbaum has been studying the ultrastructure of the Intraflagellar Transport (IFT) process at the university’s Department of Evolutionary Biology. IFT was discovered in the Rosenbaum laboratory in 1992. Analysis of the genes underlying the IFT process have led to new insights into the role of cilia and flagella in a great many human diseases where the role of these cell organelles was previously unsuspected.

Kozlowski named finalist for student-athlete of the year

Junior forward Danielle Kozlowski was honored as a finalist for ECAC Hockey’s Student-Athlete of the Year Award at the league’s annual banquet this month.

A two-time ECAC Hockey All-Academic selection, Kozlowski is an anthropology major and is also extensively involved in community service. She is the second Bulldog to earn finalist status, making Yale the only school to have two finalists in the two years the award has been in existence.

Carter’s novel wins award

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association recently named Stephen Carter’s novel, “New England White,” the best work of fiction published in 2007.

Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law. His research and teaching interests include constitutional law, contracts, intellectual property law, secrets and lying, and law and religion. He has a B.A. from Stanford and a J.D. from Yale.

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

Tony Blair to teach Yale course on faith and globalization

Two alumni appointed as successor trustees

Lalli named next master of Jonathan Edwards College

Summit to focus on ways to make campus ‘greener’

Grant to support study of exercise program for women with cancer

Former Yale VP to share message about mentoring

Smelling food ‘fires’ different area of brain than eating it, says study

Exhibition explores ‘mosaic’ of Mexico’s artistic traditions

Yale Rep to stage Oscar Wilde’s play about serial seducers and . . .

One of Italy’s ‘artistic treasures’ on loan to the Yale Art Gallery

Differences in self-esteem and motivation explored in study

Conference to explore how epic heroes of old continue to inspire . . .

Role of scholar activists to be examined at annual . . .

Alumna athlete returns to oversee fundraising, outreach . . .

Winners of Friends of Music Recital Competition to perform . . .

Memorial service for R. Lansing Hicks

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