During its annual summer benefit, this year called "Opera by the Sound," the Shubert Performing Arts Center will pay tribute to Lili Chookasian, adjunct professor of voice and opera at the School of Music and a former Metropolitan Opera star. Chookasian is also a longtime member of the Shubert's opera committee. The event, which includes an hors d'oeuvres reception and dinner, will take place on Sunday, Sept. 13, at 5 p.m. at Woodwinds of Branford. The benefit will feature an original composition by Ezra Laderman, professor of composition at the School of Music, and a musical tribute by their colleague Willie Ruff, adjunct professor. Other performers include soprano Tiffany Jackson, Matthew Polenzani, Rosa Maria Pascarella and Monica Bellner, with music direction by Robert Ashens. Proceeds will benefit opera programming at the Shubert. Tickets are $85; benefactor tickets and tables are also available. For more information, call 624-1825.
Dr. Irwin M. Braverman has recently had published the third edition of his book, "Skin Signs of System Disease." Dr. Braverman is a professor of dermatology. His book was published by W.B. Saunders Co.
Donna Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, has invited H. Kim Bottomly, professor of immunobiology and dermatology, to serve on the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council of the National Institutes of Health. Bottomly will serve a four-year term on the council beginning Nov. 1.
Peter N. Belhumeur, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has earned a couple of distinctions in recent months. This month, he participated in the National Academy of Sciences' first annual Symposium on the Frontiers of Science at the invitation of the academy's president, Bruce Alberts. The symposium was held Aug. 21-23 at the National Academy of Sciences' Beckman Center in Irvine, California. This spring, together with David Kriegman, Belhumeur won the Olympus Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Science for his submission, "What Shadows Reveal About Object Structure," to the European Conference on Computer Vision 1998. The award includes a $,1500 cash prize. There are more than 500 submissions to the conference each year; approximately 50 are accepted for oral presentation and some 100 more are accepted for posters.
The 1998 Wollaston Medal, the major award of the Geological Society of London, was awarded to Karl K. Turekian, the Benjamin Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics, at its annual meeting in April. In his citation, Turekian was called "one of the giants of modern earth and environmental sciences." The citation continued, "In more than 40 years of research, in more than 200 papers and six books, Karl Turekian has laid the foundation of a vast array of geochemical solutions to problems in the earth and ocean sciences." The Geological Society of London, founded in 1807, has awarded the Wollaston Medal annually since 1831 to promote research on the mineral structure of the Earth. Charles Darwin was one of the early recipients of the award. In 1872, James Dwight Dana, the first Benjamin Silliman Professor at Yale, was awarded the medal.
Geoffrey H. Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and of Comparative Literature, has been appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of English and Judaic Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. This appointment is a second recent honor for Hartman; his book, "The Fateful Question of Culture," won the 1998 Rene Wellek Prize of the American Association for Comparative Literature.
Readers of CONNECTICUT Magazine have selected the Peabody Museum
of Natural History as their favorite museum in the "Best of
Connecticut" readers poll for 1998. Readers selected the museum, as well
as their favorite Connecticut restaurants, beverages, places, people and
entertainment, via ballot in the March and April issues of the magazine.
The "Best of Connecticut" poll was sponsored by the magazine and the March
of Dimes. A party honoring the winners of the "Best of Connecticut"
distinction will be held on Sept. 17 at the SNET Oakdale Theatre, with
ticket proceeds benefiting the Connecticut chapters of the March of Dimes.
Earlier this year, the Peabody Museum was selected by New Haven Advocate
readers as the best museum/art gallery in the Elm City.
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