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Amy Adler is a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, where she teaches Art Law, First Amendment Law, and Feminist Jurisprudence.   Professor Adler specializes in the legal regulation of speech, art, and sexuality.   Her recent articles have included analyses of stripping, pornography, child pornography, and obscenity.   She has lectured to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from legal scholars, to artists, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Aaron L. Alcorn is a PhD candidate in the Program for the History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.   In 2005, he was a Fellow at the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and a recipient of a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case.   In 2006, he will be the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fellow at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum completing his dissertation entitled, "Modeling Behavior: Boys, Engineers, and the Model Airplane in American Culture."

Jane Anderson holds a PhD in Law from the University of New South Wales. She is a Research Fellow in Intellectual Property at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Dr Anderson has spent the last three years examining the contests and conflicts in the ownership, control and access of historical and contemporarily recorded Indigenous cultural knowledge. The project focused on the significant amounts of copyright material (in particular ethnographic photographs, sound-recordings and films) that have been produced about Indigenous people in Australia over the period of colonization - and current repatriation of this material in digital form back to communities. Outcomes include

By the late 1960s, the computer and television were linked to produce medical images that were as startling as Roentgen's original X-rays. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic reasonance imaging (MRI) made it possible to picture soft tissues invisible to ordinary X-rays. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain.

In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MRI-assisted surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and more than seventy striking illustrations, she shows how medical imaging has transformed the practice of medicine - from pediatrics to dentistry, neurosurgery to geriatrics, gynecology to oncology.

Beyond medicine, Kevles describes how X-rays and the newer technologies have become part of the texture of modern life and culture. They helped undermine Victorian sexual sensibilities, gave courts new forensic tools, provided plots for novels and movies, and offered artists from Picasso to Warhol new ways to depict the human form.

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Honored

Yale researcher Craig Crews (left) is the second recipient of the Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, a $250,000 annual award administered by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Crews, the John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and professor of chemistry, of pharmacology, and of management, was recognized for his “pioneering work in the pharmaceutical field of targeted protein degradation,” which has led to the development of drugs to fight cancer and other diseases.

Five Yale seniors will pursue graduate study in the United Kingdom next year as recipients of Marshall Scholarships: Bobby Atkinson, Ayelet Kalfus, Robby Hill, Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind, and Olivia Sally. Also going abroad next year—as Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China—are four graduating Yale seniors and three alumni: Andrew Deweese ’24, Alexander Sundberg ’24, Fatou (Malaika) Thiam-Bockman ’24, Bryson Wiese ’24, Brendan Campbell ’22, Nishi Felton ’22, and Claire Zalla ’21.

Stepping down

Two heads of Yale residential colleges announced that they will step down at the end of the academic year. American studies and history professor Mary Lui will
be leaving Timothy Dwight College after nine years as head, and sociology professor Julia Adams will leave Grace Hopper College after ten years.

Remembered

Leander Keck ’57PhD, who led the Yale Divinity School as dean from 1979 to 1989, died on January 16. He was 95. Keck, a New Testament scholar who specialized in the letters of Paul, taught at Wellesley, Vanderbilt, and Emory before coming to Yale as dean. He stayed on at YDS as the Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology until his retirement in 1997. YDS dean Greg Sterling noted Keck’s establishment of the school&rsquo

Bettyann Kevles, an award-winning author who was a senior lecturer in Yale’s Department of History and an affiliate of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, died on Aug. 18, two days short of her 85th birthday.

A native of New York City and educated at Vassar College and Columbia University, she taught at the Westridge School and at the Art Center College of Design, both in Pasadena, California, where she lived for some 30 years before coming to Yale, in 2001. While in California, she wrote a weekly column, “Scientific View,” for the Los Angeles Times that won the Genesis Award from the Fund for Animals. She also regularly reviewed books for the paper and was a science editor at the University of California Press.

She participated in the memorable Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society, which was led by feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan at the University of Southern California, and profiled Friedan in an exclusive for the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

In her writings, Kevles helped pioneer coverage of how women broke through institutional barriers in modern science and reshaped the practices and intellectual content of the fields in which they worked. Her books include “Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space,” “Females of the Species: Sex and Survival in the Animal Kingdom,” and “Watching the Wild Apes: The Primate Studies of Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas,” which won the Horn Book-Boston Globe award for Best Non-fiction and the New York Academy of Sciences award for Best Science Book. She also published “Naked to the Bone: A History of Medical Imaging,” a unique, ground-breaking work that not only explored the development of major imaging technologies, from X rays to CT-Scans and MRI, but also recounted the impact of these technologies not only in medicine but also in the law courts and art.

At Yale, Kevles taught seminars in a variety of subjects, including the history of medical imaging, human-animal re