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The Yale-Ukraine Initiative is sponsoring a performance of "Grace-given Erodii" at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, March 2, at Artspace, 70 Audubon St. The award-winning performance of Hryhory Skovoroda's 18th-century philosophic dialogue will be presented in Ukrainian by Les Kurbas Theater of Lviv, Ukraine. Tickets for the event are $12 for the general public, $5 for students. The Yale-Ukraine Initiative is part of the Council on Russian and East European Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

Yale celebrated Dr. Gerard N. Burrow's contributions to the School of Medicine and his service as dean 1992-97 when his portrait recently was presented to the University. Burrow and Steven DiGiovanni, the artist who painted the work in his New Haven studio, were on hand for the ceremony, which was held in the Beaumont Room. In accepting the portrait, Provost Alison F. Richard said, "This portrait marks your entry into the history of this University." Burrow, now special adviser to President Richard C. Levin on health affairs and the David Paige Smith Professor of Medicine, served as the 14th dean of his alma mater. He currently is writing a history of medicine at Yale that is to be published as part of the University's upcoming 300th anniversary. The medical school, which was formally chartered in 1810, had its first dean appointed in 1853. Portraits of previous deans flank the new Burrow portrait, which hangs on the second floor of the Sterling Hall of Medicine at 333 Cedar St.

The Reverend David Bartlett, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of preaching and communications at the Divinity School, will be the first featured speaker in a Lenten Preaching Series titled "For the Healing of New Haven," sponsored by the Center Church on the Green. The series features a worship service at
10 a.m., followed by a talk and discussion at 11 a.m. Bartlett's topic will be "The Word Is Near." All are welcome to attend.

Six faculty members were recently designated as Yale Hillel Faculty Fellows. The new fellowship, which is designed to encourage both casual and collaborative encounters between Yale students and faculty outside of the classroom, was established by Eric Zahler '72 B.A. and his wife, Karen Gantz Zahler, both fellows of the Wexner Heritage Foundation and longtime activists within the American Jewish community. The new fellows are: Ayala Dvoretzky, senior lector in modern Hebrew language in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations; Edward Kaplan, professor of management science at the Schools of Management and Medicine; Nancy Maizels, director of medical studies and associate professor of molecular biophysics and bio- chemistry; Peter Salovey, professor and director of graduate studies in psychology, and professor of epidemiology and public health; Alan Weiner, professor of biophysics and biochemistry and of genetics; and Laura Wexler, assistant professor of American studies and assistant professor and director of graduate studies in the women's studies program.

The American Library Association (ALA) has awarded its highest prize for a reference book, the Dartmouth Medal, to "Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia" (Routledge 1998), co-edited by Paula E. Hyman, the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History and chair of the Judaic studies program, and Deborah Dash Moore, professor of history at Vassar College. According to the ALA, "Jewish Women in America," the first major reference work on this topic, "provides gratifying, thorough encyclopedic coverage of the many and varied roles that Jewish women have occupied in America from the earliest days until the present." Hyman has been a member of the faculty since 1987. Her other books include "From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1909-1939"; "The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century," "Gender and Assimilation: The Roles and Representation of Women" and "The Jewish Woman in America."

Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of science through academics and technology, has presented a $35,000 Research Innovation Award to David J. Austin, assistant professor of chemistry. The grants are designed to "support unusual research that may be outside the guidelines of other funding agencies and to encourage researchers to take risks in the interests of extending knowledge rather than simply rounding it out," according to Research Corporation. In his work, Austin is seeking to identify natural product targets using cDNA-phage display.

Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., director of the Yale Cancer Center and professor of internal medicine (oncology), has been named to serve on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Award Program of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The newly established program is designed to fill a gap in funding young investigators for clinical research in cancer, heart disease and AIDS. DeVita is one of two nationally known cancer experts who have been invited to sit on the council.

Students from the Outreach Management Consulting Group (OMCG) at the School of Management (SOM) are assisting the board of directors and administrators of New Haven's Jewish Home for the Aged in developing a strategic plan for the facility. The students will conduct a market study to document the geographics and demographics of, as well as the competition among, organizations providing elderly services in both Jewish and non-Jewish nursing homes throughout Connecticut. Part of this study will be used to analyze alternatives for the Jewish Home for the Aged, including expansion and relocation. They will also assess the development opportunities to help identify possible areas for internal and external growth. The SOM students taking part in this project are Adria Markus, Amrit Bhatta, Jeanne Jang, Matthew D. Larsen, Patrick Fry and Rachel Matney.


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