Yale Alumni Magazine editor Carter Wiseman, who was formerly an architecture critic for New York magazine, will sign copies of his new book "Shaping a Nation: Twentieth Century American Architecture and Its Makers" on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. at the Yale Co-op, 924 Chapel St. Wiseman is also a contributing editor for Art News. For further information on the event, call 772-2200, ext. 253.
At the next meeting of the Yale-affiliated Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences on Thursday, Feb. 19, sociologist Alex Dupuy, dean of the social sciences and interdisciplinary programs at Wesleyan University in Middletown, will talk on the topic "Seven Theses on Caribbean Politics After the Cold War." The talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 8 p.m. in Rm. 002 of Wesleyan's Public Affairs Center. For further information, call 432-3113, ext. 2.
"Jesus is the Light!" is the title of a concert program featuring the Yale Gospel Choir on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the United Church on the Green,
323 Temple St. Admission is free, but donations will be welcomed.
Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at the medical school and author of the award-winning book "How We Die," will discuss his newest work, "The Wisdom of the Body," on Thursday, Feb. 19, at
7:30 p.m. at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave. The event is free and open to the public; coffee and tea will be provided. The talk follows a "High Tea" gathering featuring a hot and cold buffet; there is a charge for guests at the buffet. For further information, call 777-3494.
An invention made 50 years ago by Yale medical student William Sewell and instructor Dr. William Glenn was celebrated at the Eli Whitney Museum on Feb. 14 as part of its current exhibit "Learning Power: small motors Big Ideas." Using A.C. Gilbert's Erector Set, Sewell and Glenn constructed a bypass device that would allow them to open a heart for surgery. Their ingenuity is credited with beginning a new age in cardiac medicine. The museum displayed a reproduction of the prototype bypass pump at the Valentine's Day event, which was focused on the heart.
Yale Pro Musica, a chamber chorus sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM), will sing in a free concert on Sunday, March 1, at 5 p.m. at Christ Church, 84 Broadway. Marguerite L. Brooks, adjunct associate professor of choral conducting at the School of Music and the ISM, and the ISM's director of choral music, will conduct the performance of sacred and secular works by Bach, Schütz and other composers. The public is welcome at the event. For further information, call 432-5180.