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Merle Waxman, associate dean for academic development at the School of Medicine, has been awarded the 1996 Women in Medicine Leadership Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges AAMC. She is the first non-physician to receive the award since it was established four years ago. Ms. Waxman, who also serves as director of the Office for Women in Medicine and as the medical school's ombudsperson, was recognized by the AAMC for her institutional leadership at Yale, and for her role throughout the country as an advocate of women in medicine and science. She was cited for her efforts to create a learning and research environment where all faculty, students and staff, both women and men, can develop to full potential. She also was honored for her development of programs that help students and faculty advance and promote their careers.

Two assistant professors of psychiatry at Yale are among the 60 young, independent researchers who have been chosen by President Bill Clinton to receive the first annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers PECASE. Created last spring, the new awards recognize demonstrated excellence and promise of future success in scientific or engineering research, and the potential for eventual leadership in their respective fields. The candidates were nominated by agencies across the federal government, and recipients received up to $500,000 over a five-year period to further their research. Dr. Joseph F. Cubells, who also serves on the staff of the VA Medical Center in West Haven, was nominated for the award by the Department of Federal Affairs, while David Self was nominated by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Jewel M. Mullen, a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the School of Medicine, is one of 14 community leaders who recently joined the Saint Raphael Healthcare System as trustees. Dr. Mullen will serve on the board of Saint Regis Health Center, Saint Raphael's 125-bed nursing facility and New Haven's only Catholic nursing home.

CRI Records recently released a new CD titled "Surf Music Again" featuring music written by Jack Vees, bassist, composer and operations director for the Center for Studies in Music Technology. The CD includes Mr. Vees' songs "Piano Trio Hulk Smash!," "Surf Music Again," "Rocket Baby," "Stigmata non Grata," "SPNFL" and "Tattooed Barbie." In addition to Mr. Vees, who performs on electric guitar and bass, the musicians on the album are Jeffrey Krieger, electric cello, and Libby Van Cleve, oboe electrified. For more information or a free catalogue, call 212-941-9673 or write via e-mail to CRInyc@aol.com. For information, call 562-4183.

Lee Palmer Wandel, associate professor of history and religious studies, has been elected vice president of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference for a one-year term ending October 1997. At that time she will become president of the organization through October 1998. In addition, she was elected vice president of the Society for Reformation Research, serving in that capacity from March of 1996 through March of 1998. From then until March 2000, she will serve as president of the society. Earlier this year, the Yale University Press published Professor Wandel's latest book, "Facing Death," which she coedited with Howard Spiro, professor of medicine, and Mary McCrea Curnen, clinical professor of epidemiology and pediatrics.

The University of Chicago Press recently issued a redesigned edition of "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century" by the late John E. Boswell, the former A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale. When the book was first published in 1980, it was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 11 best books of the year. It won both the American Book Award for History and the Melcher Award in 1981. Professor Boswell was a member of the Yale faculty from 1975 until his death in 1994.


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