While the members of the Yale Symphony Orchestra (YSO) have traveled and performed in many foreign lands, the group will undertake its first domestic tour during spring break this month. On Monday, March 16, the YSO will perform under the baton of music director Shinik Hahm in the Boston-based New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. The family concert is designed to promote and support Project STEP, a Boston minority string tutorial and education program. A graduate of the STEP program will perform as a soloist with the YSO; the concert will also feature a solo by Mimi Solomon '99 of Davenport College. The YSO will also present a "light pops" program featuring Daniel Adamson '98 of Calhoun College in Bethel, Maine, on Wednesday, March 18, and will perform assorted chamber music works in the first Portsmouth [New Hampshire] Chamber Music Festival on Friday, March 20. For more information, call 432-4140.
Five Yale faculty members will share their expertise with about 600 high school juniors from 45 towns in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island during this spring's "Frontiers of Science and Engineering 1998" lecture series. Sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering, the series is held on Saturday mornings March 7-April 4 in the Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center. This year's program is directed by Turan Onat, professor of mechanical engineering. The featured speakers and their topics will be: Mitchell D. Smooke, the Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering and professor of applied physics, "Fires, Flames and the Environment"; Robert M. Macnab, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, "Structure and Function of the World's Tiniest Motor: Bacterial Flagellum"; Jay J. Ague, associate professor of geology and geophysics, "Mineral Resources and the Environment"; Katepalli Sreenivasan, the Harold W. Cheel Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics, "Water Under the Bridge: How Little We Understand"; and Thomas Graedel, professor of forestry and environmental studies and of chemical engineering, "Industrial Ecology: Framework for Sustainability."
The Law School's Schell Center for International Human Rights has designated attorney and author Gregory H. Fox as a Schell Senior Fellow for the spring semester. Fox is former codirector of New York University's Center for International Studies and was an adjunct professor of law there, teaching courses on the constitutional law of the United Nations, international law and armed conflict, and the international legislative process. As a McArthur Foundation/Social Science Research Council Fellow in International Peace and Security, he did research on a nation's right to political participation in international law, and as a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, he studied conflicts between treaty systems and strategies for their resolution. In 1996, Fox spent six months in Eritrea working as an attorney for the nation's government in an arbitration against the Republic of Yemen. He is the author of numerous articles on such topics as the right to political participation, self-determination, international law and civil wars, and the act of state doctrine. He is the coeditor (with Thomas Franck) of "International Law Decisions in National Courts." At Yale, Fox will teach an undergraduate human rights course and work on a book tentatively titled "Democracy and International Law."
To celebrate the publication of "The Yale Younger Poets Anthology," the Yale University Press will host a reading by four poets whose works are included in the volume on Saturday, April 4, at 2 p.m. at Borders Books and Music, 57th Street and Park Avenue, New York City. The poets participating in the reading will be Robert Hass, poet laureate of the United States 1995-97, who won the Yale contest in 1973 for his manuscript "Field Guide"; Carolyn Forche, who will read from Ellen Hinsey's 1995 award-winning book "Cities of Memory" as well as her own 1976 book, "Gathering the Tribes"; Julie Agoos, who won the award in 1987 for "Above the Land" and just published her second book of poetry; and George Bradley, who received the Yale prize in 1986 for "Terms To Be Met" and is editor of "The Yale Younger Poet Anthology." The anthology includes verses from each of the winners in the Yale Younger Poets contest, the annual prize open to writers under the age of 40 who have not yet published a book of poetry. Among the other poets whose works are included in the anthology are Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery and Muriel Ruykeser.