Yale Pro Musica, a chamber chorus sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM), will present a concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9, at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 25 South St. in Litchfield. Marguerite L. Brooks, associate professor (adjunct) of choral conducting at the School of Music and a member of the ISM faculty, will direct the chorus and instrumentalists in this performance, which is part of the church's "Abendmusik" series. The program for the concert includes Bach's Cantata No. 106, "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus Tragicus)," excerpts from Schütz's "Musicalische Exequien," and secular choral works by Billings, Byrd, Casals, Janequin, Le Jeune, Stanford and Willan. The concert is free and open to the public. For further information or directions, call the church at (860) 567-9465.
Peter Demetz, professor emeritus of Germanic languages and literatures, will sign copies of his new book, "Prague in Black and Gold," at a reception on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 4-5:30 p.m. at Book Haven, 290 York St. in New Haven. For further information, call 787-2848.
Dr. Gerald Friedland, director of the AIDS Program and professor of epidemiology and public health, Dr. David A. Kessler, dean of the School of Medicine, and University Vice President and Secretary Linda Koch Lorimer are among the honorary chairs of this year's AIDS Interfaith Network's (AIN) Gala Ball, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. at Union Station in New Haven. This
is the second year the organization has sponsored the annual fundraising ball, which will also commemorate AIN's
10th anniversary. Proceeds will go toward the Elsie W. Cofield Day Center's Children's Corner and kitchen, according to AIN board chair James Rawlings. For tickets, call 624-4350. For more information, call Melinda Tuhus at 946-8964.
Dorothy Singer, who is codirector with her husband, Jerome Singer, of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center, has been chosen to receive this year's Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Psychology Award from the Connecticut Psychological Association, Inc. (CPA). The award, which was presented recently at a luncheon as part of a CPA convention, recognizes Ms. Singer's "outstanding performance and excellence." Ms. Singer, who is also a research scientist in psychology, undertook with her husband a major study for Congress detailing programming plans for a PBS television channel for preschoolers as part of the federal "Ready to Learn" program, and also designed a national school curriculum for teenagers called "Creating Critical Viewers."
Four individuals will undertake interdisciplinary research at Yale for two years through the Scholars Program at Yale, which recently received a $696,424 grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation under its Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. Under the auspices of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the Scholars Program at Yale allows researchers to work with faculty members from the Schools of Law and Management, the department of epidemiology and public health at the School of
Medicine and from social science disciplines to explore factors that influence health and health-care policy. It is directed by Theodore Marmor, professor of public management at the School of Management and of political science, and is codirected by Mark Schlesinger, associate professor of public health. The four scholars are Brian Gran of the Joint Center on Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago; Ingrid Ellen, associate professor of public policy, New York University; Jeffrey Mylo, assistant professor of economics, Tufts University; and Jackie Stevens, assistant professor of political science, University of Michigan.
Yale College Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph W. Gordon was elected vice president of Phi Beta Kapa, the nation's oldest academic honor society, during the society's 38th triennial Council, held recently in Chicago. The election places Dean Gordon in direct line to assume the presidency of the society in the year 2000. Dean Gordon, who was elected to Phi Beta Kappa membership while an undergraduate at Amherst College, has been a member of Phi Beta Kappa's governing body since 1994 and has held a number of positions in the honor society. Most recently he was one of the principal authors of a report by
the society's Policy Committee assessing Phi Beta Kappa's past and future roles in higher education.
Robert D. Grober, assistant professor of applied physics and physics, has been awarded a $500,000 five-year fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The fellowships were presented to 20 of "the most promising science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States," according to a news release from the foundation. The fellows were nominated by their university presidents and recommended by a committee of nationally recognized scientists and engineers. Professor Grober's research focuses on near-field optical scanning microscopy with applications to optical imaging of DNA.
Margaret Grey, associate dean for research and doctoral studies at the School of Nursing, received the Virginia Henderson Award for Outstanding Contribution in Nursing Research during the annual Connecticut Nurses' Association Convention Oct. 16-17. Dean Grey was recognized for her commitment during the past 20 years to research on children with diabetes. Professor Grey has tracked how children and adolescents adapt over time to diabetes and cope with long-term stressors associated with the disease. "Her research is always practice-based, addresses clinical problems which matter and demonstrates the efficacy of nursing interventions with high-risk populations," says the Connecticut Nurses' Association news release announcing the award.
A recording of the violin concertos of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn featuring Erick Friedman, professor (adjunct) of violin at the School of Music, with the Orchestre de Monte Carlo under the direction of Laurent Petitgirard will be released in Europe early in 1998. This summer, Professor Friedman taught and performed at the Flaîne Festival in the French Alps. He also appeared as a guest soloist at the FAME Festival in New Jersey and as soloist and conductor with the Orchestra of the Garrett Lakes Festival in Maryland, where he has been music director for 11 years. The latter festival also featured Robert Blocker, dean of the School of Music, as a piano soloist. Professor Friedman will serve as a judge for the Yehudi Menuhin Young Artists Competition in France in April. At that time, he will give a series of master classes in London at the Purcell School, the Royal Academy and the Royal College, culminating in a recital featuring a work written for and dedicated to Professor Friedman by Mr. Petitgirard.