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September 21, 2007|Volume 36, Number 3


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Campus Notes

Greer appointed to National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Charles A. Greer, professor of neurosurgery and of neurobiology, has been appointed for a five-year term to the Council of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

Members of the council are appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. They are charged with advising the secretary, the director of the National Institutes of Health and the director of NIDCD on matters relating to the conduct and support of research and research training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to disorders of hearing and other communication processes.

Greer’s laboratory addresses the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the specificity of axon targeting and the formation of local circuit synapses.


New directors of Business Operations are named

Jack Beecher and Brian Rebeschi will assume positions as senior directors of Business Operations, effective Oct. 1.

Beecher will have responsibility for the Other Academic and Support units. Rebeschi will have responsibility for the Officer units. They will also be members of the Business Operations senior leadership team, responsible for identifying, evaluating and leading university-wide initiatives to improve the financial and administrative support for Yale faculty, students and staff.

Beecher currently serves as the clinical administrator for the Department of Anesthesiology. Rebeschi is the clinical administrator for the Child Study Center and the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation.


Columbia University symposium celebrates the work of Yale faculty member Hazel Carby

Hazel Carby, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, will be celebrated with a symposium at Columbia University on Nov. 2.

Titled “Reconstructing Womanhood: A Future Beyond Empire; A Symposium Celebrating the Work of Hazel V. Carby,” the event will take place in Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College, Columbia University. Participants will include Saidiya Hartman of Columbia University, Anne McClintock of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rinaldo Walcott of the University of Toronto.

The symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Carby’s text, “Reconstructing Womanhood,” which traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction and examines the ways in which dominant racial and sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women’s fiction.

Although the symposium is free, space is limited. For more information, send e-mail to fkb2104@columbia.edu.


Alumna lacrosse star to coach women’s team

Laura Field, who helped Yale to a 79-36 (.687) overall record and a pair of NCAA tournament appearances as an assistant coach over the past seven seasons, has been named interim Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women’s Lacrosse. Field will serve in the position for the 2007-08 academic year.

She has a combined total of five NCAA appearances as a player and a coach in the last 10 years. The Bulldogs are 34-15 (.694) in Ivy League play during Field’s time at Yale, which includes two NCAA tournament appearances, one Ivy League title, a tie for the school record for wins in a season and nine IWLCA All-America selections.


Jeffrey Gworek to head campus publishing center

Jeffrey Gworek has been appointed director of the Publishing Services Center.

The center includes RIS/print operations, graphic design and consulting services for the print and publishing needs of the Yale community.

Gworek has over 20 years of experience leading administrative and operational functions in large, complex organizations. Prior to his appointment at Yale, he directed regional claims operations at United Healthcare, where he developed and implemented Operational Centers of Excellence, a concept that improved customer service and satisfaction. Before moving to United Healthcare, Gworek spent 15 years directing a variety of operations at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.


Historian featured in television series on Cold War

Beverly Gage, assistant professor of history, was an expert guide in two History Channel programs exploring the early history of the Cold War.

The episodes, part of the History Channel’s “Lost Worlds” series, aired in August. The programs examined strategic atomic production and testing sites, as well as top-secret bunkers designed to protect key U.S. personnel in case of nuclear attack.

Gage teaches 20th century American history, with a focus on U.S. politics. An established journalist who has contributed to such publications as The New York Times, The Nation magazine and the Chicago Tribune, Gage is author of the forthcoming book “The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror.” The book is an account of the still-unexplained 1920 terrorist bombing of the financial district in New York, in which 39 people lost their lives.


Alumna joins field hockey staff as volunteer coach

Jenn Slough, a 2007 graduate who led the Bulldogs in defensive saves last season with six, will return to Yale as a volunteer assistant coach of field hockey this season.

Slough played a key role in Yale’s second-place finish in the Ivy League standings last year, helping the team tie for its highest finish since winning the Ivy title in 1980. Her career also included an ECAC championship in her freshman year.

Slough and the Class of 2007 tied the school record for wins in Ivy League games, totaling 12 in their time at Yale along with a pair of second-place finishes.

A back, Slough finished her career with 37 games played and 26 starts.


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

Yale, Peru forge ‘model’ collaboration on Machu Picchu

Foster + Partners to design new SOM building

NIH grant aims to speed development of alcoholism treatment

‘Quiet on the set!’: Scenes for DeNiro-Pacino movie shot in employee’s home

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

Scholars named to joint posts at MacMillan Center

Abigail Rider to manage Yale’s real estate

Exhibit chronicles slavery and emancipation in Jamaica

Activist and author Gloria Steinem to visit as Chubb Fellow

Art, music of Tibetan monks to be featured in campus events

Architect-designed housewares produced by Swid Powell . . .

Award-winning play about conjoined twins to be presented

Brownell: Food addiction and nutrition

Part one of two-part conference will explore ‘Frontier Cities’

Tribute to Cleanth Brooks examines the topic ‘What is Close Reading?’

Show features paintings of city scenes by Constance LaPalombara

Getting saucy

Look at ‘Past Year in Admissions’ . . .

Campus Notes


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