- Faculty
of Engineering Bulletin for Monday, October 1, 2001
- Speakers:
- Mon.,
Oct. 1, 1:00 pm, Mason 104.
- "Turbulence
in Viscoelastic Polymer Solutions," Prof. Jochen Kronjaeger,
Department of Physics, Philipps University, Marburg,
Germany. Host: Prof. Katepalli Sreenivasan.
- Mon.,
Oct. 1, 4:00 pm, Mason 107.
- Monday
Evening Seminar:
- "Shape
Matters Resonator geometry and Micro-cavity Lasers,"
- Harald
Schwefel, Department of Physics. Adviser: Prof. A. Douglas Stone.
- Refreshments
will be served.
- Tues.,
Oct. 2,
4:00 pm, Mason 107.
Graduate Student Seminar:
- "Muscle
Lengthening Attenuates Conducted Vasodilation in Feed Arteries of
Hamster Retractor," Sara Haug, Environmental Engineering.
Refreshments will be served.
- Wed.,
Oct. 3, 2:30 pm, Mason 107.
- Mechanical
Engineering Seminar
- "Multi-Scalar
Imaging in Turbulent Flames," Prof. Marshall Long,
- Mechanical
Engineering and Applied Physics.
- Thurs.,
Oct. 4, 1:00 pm, Sloane Physics Lab 52.
- Condensed
Matter Physics Seminar:
- "The
World's Most Frustrated Magnet," Prof. Oleg Tchernyshyov,
Princeton
University. Host: Prof. Subir Sachdev.
- Welcome:
- Ms.
Jane Boone joins us Oct. 1 as Coordinator for the Office of
- Undergraduate
Affairs (Prof. Roman Kuc, director); she will
- also
assist with the graduate aspects of the Select Program
- in
Engineering. Ms. Boone has extensive administrative experience
- in
higher education, most recently at the University of Texas at
- Arlington
and Texas Christian University. She holds a B.A. in
- English
from the University of Texas at Arlington and an M.Ed.
- in
Administration/Human Services from Texas Christian University.
- Ms.
Boone and her husband, Thomas, live in Mystic. Their son
- Thomas
Jr. is a graduate student in EE and AP.
- The
Dean's vision coming into view:
- Within
the next few weeks, when you enter the suite of offices by
way
of Dunham 222, you will enter into a welcoming, redesigned
reception
area.
You will find the Graduate Registrar and DGS offices to
the right of the entrance, and a conference room accommodating
meetings
of about 15 people will soon become available in this area.
Grants Management and Accounting are moving into the space
vacated
by our Graduate Studies offices.
The Senior Administrator, one
Accountant, and a development-related staff member (to be hired)
will
be located in the offices directly to the left as you enter Dunham
222.
The offices of Academic Affairs will stay in their current location as
will
the office of Facilities Management.
The Editor's office is now across
from the entrance to the Dean's offices.
- Long
service awards:
- Last
June, President Richard Levin and the other Officers of
Yale
University hosted a dinner at the Commons honoring long-service
employees.
Among the honorees were Ms. Jean Edmunds, Executive
Assistant
to the Dean of Engineering, and Ms. Susan Johns,
Assistant
Administrator of the Faculty of Engineering, both honored
for 25 years of service. Ms. Jeanette Murdock, Manager
of
the Engineering and Applied Science Library, was honored for
35
years of service. Dr. Levin expressed appreciation for the added
value
that long-service employees bring to the performance of their
duties
by virtue of their in-depth understanding of the workings
of
a complex institution like Yale.
- Our
very best wishes!
- Mr.
Andrew Morcus, Facilities Manager, married Ms. Carolyn Haller,
- Administrative
Associate for Psychiatry, Connecticut Mental Health
- Center,
September 29. They met when Ms. Haller worked briefly
- in
the Dean's office at Engineering in 1999.
- This
time, it's correct:
- The
Durham Fair is the largest agricultural fair in Connecticut
- (~220,000
visitors in 2000) and the largest agricultural fair in
- North
America managed and staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers (its
150 directors, its
managers, and its staff are doing it as a community service--that's
about
2,000 individuals, among them Richard Bascom, our Senior
Administrator).
- How
best to improve your cognitive function:
- "…chronic
sleep loss may be as bad as smoking, as bad as a poor
diet
and as bad as a lack of exercise for our health and cognitive
function."
Prof. Eve van Cauter, leading sleep researcher and
professor
of medicine at the University of Chicago, quoted June 2001
in
the Chicago Tribune.
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of Faculty of Engineering Bulletin 521
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