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Remembered
January/February 2009
Violist
Jesse Levine, who taught at the School of Music for 25 years and performed and
conducted around the world, died on November 11 from pancreatic cancer. He was
68 years old. Levine was principal violist for several orchestras over his
career.
Law
professor Jay Katz died of heart failure in New Haven on November 17 at the age
of 86. Trained as a physician, Katz came to Yale in 1953 to teach psychiatry
but soon gravitated to the legal and ethical side of medicine. He served on a national
panel that investigated the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

Honored
Jarrad
M. Aguirre '09 and Rachel Bayetsky-Anand '09 were selected as Rhodes Scholars
this year. Aguirre, a molecular, cellular, and developmental biology (MCDB)
major from Colorado, will study medical anthropology at Oxford. Bayetsky-Anand,
a Toronto native who is majoring in ethics, politics, and economics, will study
philosophy. Also headed for England is Adam Bouland '09, a computer science and
mathematics major who was awarded a Marshall Scholarship; he will study math at
Cambridge.

Appointed
Deborah
Stanley-Mcaulay has been appointed chief diversity officer for the university.
Stanley-McAulay has worked in employee development at Yale since 1995, most
recently as director of the university’s Organiza-tional Development and
Learning Center. She succeeds Nydia Gonzalez, the first chief diversity
officer, who was appointed in 2007 but resigned recently to care for a
relative.
Akhil
Reed Amar '80, '84JD, has been named a Sterling Professor of Law. Amar, a noted
scholar of the U.S. Constitution, is known both for scholarly and popular
writing on the law. Amar will give what he calls a "walking tour" of the
Constitution in Yale’s DeVane lectures of 2009-10. No more than 27 active
faculty members at a time can hold Sterling professorships—Yale’s highest
faculty honors—which were endowed in 1918 by a bequest from John W. Sterling
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