Yale College sophomore Bryan MacDonald will be one of the instructors in a hands-on seminar for small-business owners being held April 1 at the Regional Business Resource Center (RBRC) in New Haven. MacDonald is an intern at the RBRC, where he has worked at designing the center's Internet home page and web site. During the seminar, titled "Using the Internet to Develop Your Business," he and RBRC director Richard W. Schwenzer will instruct participants about such topics as market research, advertising, business resources and selecting an Internet service provider, among others. The event will be held 6:15-7:30 p.m. at the RBRC, 560 Ella Grasso Blvd. The seminar is free, but preregistration is re-quired. For further information, call Josie Vazquez at 624-1493, ext. 231.
James Scott, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, will sign copies of his new book "Seeing Like a State," on Wednesday, April 8, 4-5:30 p.m. at Book Haven,
290 York St. Refreshments will be served. Scott's latest work is a critique of high-modernist state development schemes.
Yale Dining Services will once again join with area restaurants and chefs in the annual Share Our Strength charity event called "Taste of the Nation," which will be held on Wednesday, April 8, 5-9 p.m. at the new Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. The event raises funds for local agencies with anti-hunger and anti-poverty programs. New Haven area chefs show off their culinary delights, and guests bid to have a chef come to their home to prepare a gourmet dinner. Last year Taste of the Nation New Haven raised $30,000. Tickets for the event are $45 in advance; $55 at the door. To order, call 1-800-710-9644.
The Section of Emergency Medicine in the School of Medicine's department of surgery will host the New England Regional Conference of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine on Friday, April 17. The event will be held
8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. For further information about the conference, call 785-4683.
The Italian government has bestowed one of its highest honors, the Commendatore Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, on Dr. Vincent DeVita Jr., director of the Yale Cancer Center. The award is given to Italian citizens or citizens of other countries who have made contributions beneficial to Italy or to the Italian community abroad. DeVita received the award for his contributions to the treatment and cure of cancer in Italy, the United States and throughout the world. A former director of the National Cancer Institute, DeVita and his colleagues developed a four-drug combination chemotherapy that has made possible the cure of Hodgkin's disease.
President Richard C. Levin has announced several faculty appointments and reappointments. Stephen Anderson, professor of linguistics, has been reappointed chair of the department of linguistics; David Quint, professor of comparative literature and English, has been named the new chair of the program in Renaissance studies; and Paolo Valesio, professor and director of graduate studies in Italian language and literature, has been reappointed chair of that department. The appointments are effective in July 1998 for a term of three years.
The Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation-- the only environmental prize awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -- has been awarded to Mark Ashton, associate professor of silviculture at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and his colleagues in Sri Lanka. The prize, which is given every four years, honors the work that has been done by Ashtonand his associates over the past 15 years on tropical rain forest conservation and management in southwest Sri Lanka.
Maggie Scarf, writer-in-residence at Jonathan Edwards College, recently received a Certificate of Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association's Joint Commission on Public Affairs for her "outstanding reporting on psychiatric issues" in her article "Keeping Secrets," published in the June 16, 1996 issue of The New York Times. Scarf has written widely about marital and societal issues in such books as "Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage," "Intimate Worlds: How Families Thrive and Why They Fail," "Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Women" and "Mind, Body, Behavior."
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