On Oct. 1, Danuta Nutecki took up her new post as associate university librarian at Yale. For the past 13 years, Ms. Nutecki has been associate director for public services at the University of Maryland, College Park Libraries, where she was for a time acting associate director for library systems. She has also served at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has also been active nationally in professional advisory activities and has spoken and written widely. At Yale, she will have primary responsibility for public services, particularly instructional activities.
As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, School of Medicine faculty will be speaking at the Parity Awareness Day gathering being sponsored by the department of psychiatry 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. The faculty scheduled to speak are Drs. George R. Henninger, John Harrison Krystal, Robert T. Malison, Christopher J. McDougle and Douglas Michael Ziedonis. Their topics will include affective disorders, developmental disorders, schizophrenia, and substance abuse. The talks are free and open to the public.
A student at the School of Law was named one of two recipients of the Harry A. Blackmun Scholarship for the academic year 1996-97. The scholarship was awarded to Sonja L. Petersen in recognition of her high academic achievement and for showing "promise of making a significant contribution to society." At the law school, Ms. Petersen works with the immigration clinic handling asylum cases. She also has a strong interest in the legal problems of Native Americans and indigenous persons, working this past summer for the Native American Program of Oregon Legal Services. The scholarship carries an award of $6,000.
The Town of Westport honored eight people on Sept. 29 with Westport, CT Lifetime Achievement Awards for their work in promoting the town's reputation as an arts colony. Among those honored was Yale researcher and School of Music faculty member Vivian Perlis. Her work as a concert harpist and musical historian specializing in 20th-century American music includes founding Oral History, American Music, a unique archive of oral and videotaped interviews with leading figures in the music world. Her numerous publications include books, articles and television documentaries on Eubie Blake, John Cage and Charles Ives; she also coauthored with Aaron Copland two volumes of the composer's autobiography. Previous winners of the award include Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and George Balanchine.
Malcolm Warner will join the staff of the Yale Center for British Art in November as curator of paintings. Mr. Warner has been curator of prints and drawings and curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art since 1990 and 1992, respectively. He is currently curating and cataloguing a major exhibition of Victorian paintings, which will open in February 1997 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Mr. Warner has also served in curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago and as a professor at the University of Manchester. "Malcolm Warner brings great breadth of knowledge and experience to the curating of the painting and sculpture collection of the Yale Center," said Patrick McCaughey, director of the British Art Center, in announcing the appointment. "He is a distinguished scholar in his own right. I am confident that his appointment will usher in a period of exciting changes to the collection."
The department of philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden has invited Ruth Barcan Marcus, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, to speak as the Hagerstrom lecturer for 1997. The lectureship was founded 20 years ago and is named for Axel Hagerstrom, a prominent Swedish philosopher. Each year, a leading philsopher is invited to visit Uppsala for a week and give a series of five double lectures on a topic of the lecturer's choice to an audience of philosophy faculty and students, as well as other academics interested in the topic. Professor Marcus, who is also a senior research scholar in the philosophy department, will travel to Sweden sometime during the 1997 spring semester.
Two professors in the engineering department, Peter N. Belhumeur and David J. Kriegman, were recently honored with the Best Paper Award at the 1996 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Their paper -- titled "What Is the Set of Images of an Object Under All Possible Lighting Conditions?" -- was chosen from a field of more than 600 submissions for the honor.