Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 5, 2007|Volume 36, Number 5

Campus Notes

Breast cancer is focus of community forum on Oct. 11

The Yale Cancer Center and the Yale-New Haven Breast Center will sponsor the second annual Breast Cancer Community Forum on Thursday, Oct. 11.

Titled “Hope, Not Fear,” the event will take place 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Savin Rock Conference Center, 6 Rock St., in West Haven. Several experts on the treatment of breast cancer and medical oncologists will participate.

To register, call (203) 688-2000 or (888) 700-6543. To register for mammograms available at the forum through the Yale-New Haven Digital Mobile Mammography, call (203) 688-6800.

Patrizio is elected president of fertility preservation society

Dr. Pasquale Patrizio, professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Services at the School of Medicine and director of the Yale Fertility Center, has been elected to serve as president of the Society for Fertility Preservation.

The society is a special interest group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. His term will begin in October.

At the Yale Fertility Center, Patrizio has helped develop a new form of the egg-freezing technique known as oocyte cryopreservation, which helps preserve the fertility of women who have been diagnosed with cancer and will be undergoing chemotherapy or radiation.

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

Yale team achieves major advances in quantum computers

Yale poll reveals growing concern about global warming

‘Incredible India@60’: Yale hosts panels on nation’s future . . .

Parents' Weekend

Special language tours offered during Parents’ Weekend

Yale endowment earns 28% return in 2006-2007

Study sheds new light on genetic differences in humans

Emilie Townes is named to associate dean at the Divinity School

Faculty members win fellowships for use of technology in curricula

Conference to honor legacy of Israeli poet

Festival invites public to enjoy area artists’ creative offerings

Evolution of ‘the city beautiful’ is focus of new exhibition

Noted theologians to give public talks during Convocation

Yale singers will bring Beinecke manuscript to musical life . . .

Winners of Graduate School’s Wilbur Cross Medals to present talks

Global experts gather to discuss ways to curb poverty . . .

‘Summer Heat’

Yale Press acquires the renowned Anchor Bible Series from Doubleday

Jane Savage named director of best practices

New digital mammography van hits the streets to provide screenings

Manuscripts and Archives hosts an introduction to its resources, services

Yale Books in Brief

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