Deborah Chyun, an associate professor and program director of the Adult Advanced Practice Nursing Program at the School of Nursing, was selected to participate in the first annual John A. Hartford Institute Collaborative Seminar to Promote Scholarship in Gerontologic Nursing. The seminar was held in June at New York University's (NYU) division of nursing and was jointly sponsored by Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and NYU. The scholars selected to participate in the program are engaged in research in gerontologic nursing, and were taught by experts in the field. Chyun's research interest is in the area of diabetes in the elderly following a heart attack.
Librarians recently selected "The Yale University School of Medicine Patient's Guide to Medical Tests" as one of the outstanding reference books published in 1997. The 620-page book, which features information on common and not-so-common diagnostic procedures, was one of 25 books that a committee of librarians consider to be the most valuable additions to library collections. The chosen books were highlighted for library staff and were exhibited at the Donnell Library Center on West 53rd St. in New York City. Dr. Barry L. Zaret, the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine and chief of cardiovascular medicine, is the book's senior editor; associate editors are Dr. Peter L. Jatlow, professor and chair of laboratory medicine, and Dr. Lee D. Katz, associate professor of radiology and director of diagnostic imaging.
Two Yale staff members recently led training workshops for Town Green hospitality officers, Omni Hotel employees and New Haven parking enforcement officers. Offered by the Town Green Special Services District in cooperation with Effective Security Systems, Inc., the workshops were designed to strengthen customer service and hospitality extended to visitors, workers and residents in downtown New Haven, as well as to educate workshop participants about safety issues. Barbara Morton, a captain with the Yale Police Department, was one of the leaders of a seminar focusing on how to handle emergencies, while Shirley Johnson, manager of Yale's Visitor Information Center, helped lead a seminar about extending hospitality to Elm City residents, employees and tourists. The seminars were held during July at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale and at Yale's Rose Alumni House.
Daniel C. Esty, associate professor of environmental law and policy at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Law School, has been elected to American Farmland Trust's (AFT) board of directors. AFT, a farmland conservation group, was founded in 1980 to stop the loss of productive farmland and promote farming practices leading to a healthy environment. Esty is the author or editor of four books and numerous articles on environmental policy issues and served from 1989 to 1993 in various positions in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He currently is director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and is a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
The Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research has presented its Clinical Service Award to Dr. Sally E. Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine's neurology department and at the Yale Child Study Center, codirector of the NICHD-Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention, and founder and director of the Learning Disorders Unit at Yale. Shaywitz was honored for her research into the biological causes of dyslexia and for demonstrating that men and women show sex differences in their brain organization during reading. According to the society, Shaywitz's "insights into common everyday behaviors such as reading, thinking and learning, have already significantly improved the quality of life for children, young adults and mature women and have the potential to aid many more."
Vairavan Subramanian '01 of Saybrook College is among nearly 100 college undergraduates from throughout the nation who took part in the 1998 Summer Medical and Research Training (SMART) program at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In the 10-week program, which is directed by Baylor's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Subramanian got first-hand work experience in laboratories conducting biomedical projects. He is majoring in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale.
The list of Yale students who received Fulbright Grants, which appeared in the June 1-22 issue, should have included the name of Eryn Rosenthal '98 of Berkeley College, who will be studying "Performance on the Post-Franco Stage" next year at Centro Dramatico Nacional in Madrid, Spain.
President Richard C. Levin recently announced the following appointments and reappointments: Margot Fassler, professor of music at the School of Music and of music history in liturgy at the Divinity School, to a second term as director of the Institute of Sacred Music; Peter Jones, professor of mathematics, as chair of the department of mathematics; Alvin K. Klevorick, the John Thomas Smith Professor of Law and professor of economics, as director of the division of social sciences; and Mark Reed, professor of electrical engineering and of applied physics, to a second term as chair of the department of electrical engineering.
Two Yale affiliates were recently presented with honorary degrees. The Reverend Frederick J. Streets, University chaplain and pastor of the Church of Christ in Yale, delivered the commencement address on May 17 at his alma mater, Ottawa University in Kansas. Streets, a 1972 graduate of Ottawa University, also received an honorary Doctor of Divinity Honoris Causa from the school, a private liberal arts college historically affiliated with the American Baptist Churches. Also in May, Richard E. French, professor emeritus of music at the School of Music, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree at Concordia College, Bronxville, New York. French, who is also the Robert Tangeman Professor of Music at Union Theological Seminary and lecturer in music at The Juilliard School, was presented the degree by his former student, Ralph Schultz, president of Concordia College. His citation read in part: "[Y]our career in the performance, teaching and study of music has been a model of excellence. Generations of musicians have profited from your wisdom as teacher and counselor."
Mark Talbott, the world's top-ranked professional squash player for 12 seasons, was recently named coach of the women's squash team. Talbott is the brother of Yale's men's squash coach Dave Talbott.
In June, St. Martin's Press published a first novel by Dr. Charles Atkins, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine. His novel, titled "The Portrait," is about a manic-depressive artist who is suspected of murdering his psychiatrist. Atkins says his goal in writing the book was to introduce a "hero" who has a serious mental illness. "The hope is that by having a character with which the reader can identify there is an opportunity to decrease stigma and prejudice," Atkins explains. Atkins is also the acting director of psychiatry at Waterbury Hospital.
Dr. Stephen G. Waxman was elected a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), a private, nonprofit public-service institution designed to foster the application of science and engineering to benefit the health and welfare of the people and the government of the State of Connecticut. Waxman is professor and chair of neurology and professor at the School of Medicine, as well as director of the PVA/EPVA Neuroscience Research Center in the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven. He was elected to CASE, whose membership is limited to 200, on the basis of his internationally recognized research in the areas of molecular architecture of nerve fibers and the glial cells that surround them, and the mechanisms by which nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord adapt to injury.
Dr. Gordon Shepherd, professor of neuroscience in the School of Medicine's section of neurobiology, has been elected to a five-year term as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuroscience, published by the Society for Neuroscience. He will assume the editorship on Jan. 1. The journal, published every two weeks in both printed and electronic versions, annually includes 10,000 pages. A Yale medical faculty member since 1967, Shepherd previously served as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Neurophysiology and as an editorial board member for several other scientific journals.
David Swensen, the University's chief investment officer, has
received the Rodney H. Adams Award from the National Association of
College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). The award recognizes
outstanding contributions to professional development and research
activities in the fields of endowment and investment management. It was
named for the late Rodney H. Adams, former treasurer at Stanford
University, as well as a trustee of The Common Fund (which sponsors the
award) and chair of the NACUBO Investment Committee. In addition to his
post in the Investments Office, Swensen is a lecturer in economics at Yale
College and adjunct professor of finance at the School of
Management.
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