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Advance calls for story tips on sabbaticals, emeriti
Did your sabbatical enable you to pursue a new direction in your
research or develop new teaching strategies? Was it particularly
productive in some other way? The Advance is seeking information
for a future article on sabbaticals. A separate article will
feature the ongoing scholarly activities of some of the University's
emeritus faculty. If you are interested in being included in
either of these articles, please send a brief (one to two-paragraph)
description to Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu, editor, at U-144, by fax:
(860) 486-3530, or via e-mail:
advance@uconn.edu Interviews
for these articles will be conducted during the summer break,
so please indicate how you can be reached during the months of
May through August.
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Lamb's new novel to debut with quarter million copies
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Wally Lamb, author of the best seller She's Come Undone,
has a new book coming out June 3. The novel, I Know This
Much Is True, is about 40 year-old twin brothers, one of
whom has schizophrenia. Published by Regan Books, a division
of HarperCollins, the book will have a first edition print
run of 250,000 hard cover copies. "This is an unheard of
number in publishing," says Sam Pickering, professor of English.
Lamb will embark on a 23-city promotional tour next month.
Lamb's other upcoming activities include teaching at a writer's
conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, an appearance at Book
Expo America, the national trade book sellers show in Chicago,
and giving an address at the American Library Association's
national conference in Washington, D.C. The Connecticut
Commission on the Arts has selected Lamb to receive a 1998
Governor's Arts Award.
Lamb, '72, M.A. '77, has been teaching creative writing
and a fiction workshop this year. In the fall, he will join
the English department as an associate professor.
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Don't miss the Employee Benefits Fair, May 19-20
The ninth annual Employee Benefits Fair will be held in the Harry
A. Gampel Pavilion from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. May 19-20, complete
with more than 45 booths offering free health screenings, and
information about health insurance and retirement planning. Food,
raffles, a therapeutic massage and other treats will also be
available. The fair will include representatives of all the medical
and dental health care carriers available to state employees,
in conjunction with the open enrollment period - anyone wishing
to change their insurance provider must fill out an enrollment
form and return it to the Department of Human Resources by May
29. Descriptions of benefits, and cost schedules, were sent to
employees' homes.
CRT seeking furnished accommodation for summer sublet
Connecticut Repertory Theatre wishes to sublet furnished apartments
or houses within one mile of campus from June 9-July 25, or part
of that period, to house professional employees coming to Storrs
for the 1998 Nutmeg Summer Season. Call Jamie Gilpatrick at (860)
486-1629 for further information.
Center on Aging announces gerontology research fellowships
The Center on Aging is offering four to five graduate research
fellowships in gerontology for 1998-99. The fellowship is an
opportunity for extensive research on gerontological topics within
the recipient's discipline. Fellows are required to participate
in a research seminar covering perspectives and methods in studying
aging, present a major paper in the first semester and a research
report in the second semester, and present their research at
a year-end symposium. The fellowship, which offers a stipend
of $3,000, is open to full-time graduate students interested
in pursuing a research career in the field of aging. Preference
will be given to students with a background in gerontology. Applications
should include an application letter, description of the proposed
research topic, graduate transcript, and letter of support from
the applicant's major adviser, and should be sent to Gerontology
Fellowship Program Committee, Center on Aging, U-58, by Monday,
June 15. For more information, call Nancy Sheehan at (860) 486-4043.
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