Two Yale affiliates were recently inducted into honor societies.
Florence S. Wald, former dean of the School of Nursing and founder of the American hospice movement, was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame on July 21.
Wald served as the School of Nursing's fourth dean 1959-68. In that post, she established the school's first nurse practitioner program and helped set the groundwork for the development of its recently established doctoral program. Wald resigned her deanship to bring the end-of-life care then only available in Europe to the United States and is currently investigating offering hospice care to the growing terminally ill prison population. She continues to serve on the School of Nursing faculty as clinical professor of nursing.
Dorrit Hoffleit, senior research astronomer retired, who was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in Hartford this June.
Established five years ago, the Hall of Fame seeks to honor and give public recognition to Connecticut women, past and present, who have "broken new ground" or served as leaders in their fields.
A member of the Yale faculty since 1956, Hoffleit is renowned both for her research and for serving as a mentor to many young women scientists. She received the 1988 Van Biesbroeck Award for her unselfish dedication to astronomy and for publishing "The Bright Star Catalogue" in 1982, which documents 9,110 stars that are visible to the naked eye.
Samuel W. MacDowell, professor of physics, was admitted in the National Order of Scientific Merit by Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The honor, which recognizes MacDowell's contribution to the development of science and technology in the United States, is the Brazilian government's highest distinction in the field of science.
Dwight Hall is one of over 40 sites in the New Haven community participating in a federally funded Summer Food Service Program under the auspices of the Connecticut Association for Human Services. The program, which runs through Aug. 1, provides free breakfast and lunch to city youngsters age 18 and under.
On July 9 and 10, the Yale campus was the site of a meeting of the XLVeme Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, the association of the world's Assyriologists, which meets annually to exchange information on "the first half of history."
The Rencontre studies discoveries made both in the field and in museums on all manner of human institutions that are first documented in the cuneiform records of the ancient Near East. Its visit to New Haven was hosted by the Babylonian Collection at Yale, which includes one of the major assemblages of clay tablets and art works from ancient Mesopotamia and the surrounding Near East.
The collection's curator -- William W. Hallo, the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and of Near Eastern languages and civiliations -- used the occasion to organize a symposium and to launch two exhibits at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (see related news story). The Rencontre's visit also marked the dedication and inauguration of the computerized catalogue of the Yale collection and the publication of the Assyro-Babylonian god-list edited by Richard L. Litke from an original in the collection.
More than 300 teachers, principals, parents and policy-makers interested in school-based child care are expected to attend the ninth annual School of the 21st Century conference, titled "Schools as Family and Community Resources: Ten Years of Experience," which will be held July 20-23 at the Omni New Haven Hotel. The national conference is sponsored by Yale's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy.
Since 1988, more than 500 schools in 17 states have implemented the School of the 21st Century model, devised by Yale psychologist Edward Zigler, an architect of the federal Head Start program. The schools, also known as Family Resource Centers (FRC) in some communities, offer an innovative model for school-based child care and family support services that transforms elementary schools into year-round, multi-service centers offering child care, family guidance services, training for child-care providers, and health services and education.
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