ELINE Newsletter: November 2009
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Universities Adopt New Principles to Speed Access to Affordable Medicines Yale has joined a group of leading research universities in adopting a set of principles and strategies to speed the development and dissemination of technologies and medications to improve health around the globe. Yale and other schools are committed to ensuring that their intellectual property ownership does not become a barrier to access. For example, they will exert control over patent rights to foster the availability of life-saving products in the developing world. The universities will also support the development of new health-related technologies aimed at diseases that disproportionately burden the developing world, such as tuberculosis, without regard to the potential for economic gain. |
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Vincent Scully Awarded Top Honor for Historic Preservation Vincent Scully, Yale’s distinguished professor of art and architectural history and one of the nation’s most influential authorities on the built environment, has received the Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award, the highest honor bestowed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. An early champion of historic preservation, Scully led the fight to save architectural treasures and traditional city neighborhoods from the bulldozers of post-war urban renewal. “There is no candidate more worthy of the National Trust’s highest honor for lifetime achievement than Professor Vincent Scully,” said Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. |
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Ralph Lauren Establishes Gwathmey Professorship at School of Architecture Designer Ralph Lauren and his wife Ricky Lauren have established a professorship at the School of Architecture to honor their late friend, the architect Charles Gwathmey. Gwathmey M. Arch. ‘62 was most recognized for the residences he designed and for institutional projects such as the International Center for Photography, the Museum of the Moving Image and the addition to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Gwathmey finished the restoration of Paul Rudolph’s landmark Art & Architecture Building, rededicated as Paul Rudolph Hall, a year before his death. Gwathmey had worked with Rudolph on the design of the building when he was a Yale student. The first Charles Gwathmey Professor is the eminent architect and educator Peter Eisenman. |
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Yale Environment 360 Named an Online Leader The Online News Association has honored Yale Environment 360 with its best "specialty site journalism" award, citing content that is "taking debate to a higher level and is so needed in the journalism community now." In recognizing Yale Environment 360 as the best small website in a specialized category, the judges praised its mix of reporting, commentary and discussion, as well as the quality of its writing, the attractiveness of its design and the level of debate on its interactive reader forum. Yale Environment 360 is published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. |
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Flu Vaccine Given to Women During Pregnancy Keeps Infants out of the Hospital Infants born to women who received flu vaccine during pregnancy were hospitalized at a lower rate than infants born to unvaccinated mothers. That’s the preliminary finding of an ongoing study by researchers at the School of Medicine. Influenza is a major cause of serious respiratory disease in pregnant women and of hospitalization in infants. The researchers found that vaccinating mothers during pregnancy was 89 percent effective in preventing hospitalization in infants under six months of age. Although the flu vaccine is recommended for all pregnant women and for children, no vaccine is approved for infants under six months of age. |
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Grey Reappointed Dean of Nursing Margaret Grey ’76 M.S.N. has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of the Yale University School of Nursing by President Richard C. Levin Ph.D. ‘74. Grey, the Annie Goodrich Professor and a pediatric nurse practitioner, has served Yale since 1993. During her first term as dean, she led the school to a number of accomplishments: achieving the maximum, 10-year reaccredidation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education; establishing a doctoral program and seeing its first graduates; and reaching the school's capital campaign fundraising goal well ahead of schedule. |
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World Fellows Return to Yale to Reconnect More than 100 alumni of the World Fellows Program from 70 countries recently gathered at Yale to continue their dialogue as emerging world leaders. Dr. Michael Cappello, director of the Yale World Fellows Program, said the gathering “provided first-hand evidence of the growing reach and impact of the Yale World Fellows Program, which is a network of multi-disciplinary practitioners affecting positive change on a global scale." The program each year brings together highly accomplished men and women from around the world to spend a semester exploring critical issues and receiving leadership training. |
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Women’s Soccer Features Player of the Year Becky Brown, a junior who led the Bulldogs in goals (13) and points (30), was named the Ivy League Player of the Year in women’s soccer. Kristen Forster, who tied the school record for assists by a freshman, shared the league's Rookie of the Year Award with Princeton's Alison Nabatoff. In addition, Brown and Sophia Merrifield were first team All-Ivy selections. Forster earned a spot on the second team and Caitlin Collins and Miyuki Hino were honorable mention picks. |
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