Claudia Martinez
Claudia Martinez
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Med school prof battles HIV in Eastern Europe
School of Medicine professor Frederick L. Altice and his research team have received a $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse to conduct research on the HIV epidemic within Eastern European criminal justice systems, primarily Ukraine.
Berkeley dean to depart for Hotchkiss
Berkeley College Dean Kevin Hicks ’89 will step down at the end of the school year to serve as the next associate head of school and dean of faculty at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn.
Vt. environmentalist loves land
Relying on facts and numbers is not enough to resolve environmental issues such as global warming and air pollution, said Peter Forbes, founder of the Center for Whole Communities in Vermont, an environmentalist organization.
Elm City’s restaurants prepare to dish it out
More than two dozen restaurants across New Haven are gearing up for one of their busiest weeks of the year.
4chan founder talks Web entrepreneurship
He may not have flown into Yale in a helicopter as he would have liked, but Christopher Poole — the founder of the popular website 4chan, which allows users to post images for others to see — was still able to draw roughly 100 students to his Calhoun Master’s Tea on Friday.
Scholars talk Texas prisons
Everything’s bigger in Texas — including the prison system, said historian Robert Perkinson GRD ’01 at a talk in Labyrinth Bookstore on Thursday.
Dr. Ruth promises lifetime of ‘good sex’
This past Friday, Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared in front of hundreds of army cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Krupp urges carbon caps
The United States needs to act now on environmental issues, Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp ’75 said at a Pierson College Master’s Tea on Tuesday.
Amtrak goes wireless
When Brendan Harrington ’13 rode the Acela Express — Amtrak’s high-speed rail service in the Northeast — this week, he discovered a new feature: wireless Internet service. While the connection was slower than he may have liked, he said he was happy about the new service.
Elis form health care group
A new organization on campus hopes to spark debate on a number of health care issues, the group’s founders said.