Faculty of Engineering
Bulletin for Monday, November 21, 2005
Speaker:
Mon., Nov. 21,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Kondo Effect in Electromigrated Gold Break Junctions,"
Andrew Houck, Applied Physics.
Adviser: Prof. Robert Schoelkopf.
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
New staff:
David Gingerella
is
assisting us as Interim Business
Administrator until a permanent Administrator can
join us. Mr. Gingerella is the Director of the
Shared Science Services Branch of the Office
of the Provost and the Office of University Finance.
Ms. Bridget Calendo
has joined us as Advancement
Director for Yale Engineering. She acquired her
development expertise at Northwestern University,
where she worked at the Weinberg College of Arts
and Sciences, the Feinberg Medical School, the
McCormick School of Engineering, and at the Medill
School of Journalism. She is a graduate (Honors)
of Roosevelt University and has a Master in Arts
from Northwestern University. She has also taken
development and fundraising courses at Indiana
University. Ms. Calendo loves to cook and bake
and is an avid sports fan (Thanksgiving without
football? Unthinkable!).
Dawn Finaldi
has joined
us as an Assistant Business
Administrator. She comes to us from the Medical School
which she knows well from having worked there for 19 years
in Psychology, Epidemiology and Public Health, MB&B,
Internal Medicine, and, for the last two years, in
the Department of Surgery as the Assistant Administrator.
At FoE, she will focus on Biomedical, Chemical,
Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering. Ms. Finaldi
is an amateur photographer and lives with her husband,
Thomas, in Wallingford. They share a love for San
Francisco where they vacation every year.
James Westgate
has joined us as an Assistant Business
Administrator. His focus will be on the departments
of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. He
comes to us from the Central Budget Office where he
served as Senior Budget Analyst for the last seven
years. Before coming to Yale, he handled the budgets
for Sacred Heart University. Mr. Westgate and his wife,
Elaine, share an absorbing hobby-ferrying Beth, 11, Brian, 9,
Thomas, 6, and Daniel, 3, to activities too numerous to
mention. The Westgates live in Oxford.