February 17: At a reception for the OPENING OF THE TAC GALLERY (see An Eye for Science) researchers saw their scientific images displayed as art. 1. Lorraine F. Roseman, operations manager and customer advocate at the School of Medicine’s Office of Facilities, with Eric Uscinski, director of Facilities Operations. 2. Ann M. Haberman, Ph.D., associate research scientist in the Department of Laboratory Medicine. 3. Ruth R. Montgomery, Ph.D., senior research scientist in the Department of Medicine, with Cécile M. Chalouni, Ph.D., associate research scientist in the Department of Cell Biology. 4. Valeswara-Rao Gazula, Ph.D., associate research scientist in the Department of Pharmacology, and Sudhakar Ravuri, Ph.D., of the medical school’s W.M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory.

March 20: The Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library was the setting for the presentation of the medical school’s CLASS OF 2006 GIFT, a $6,000 donation to the YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ANNUAL FUND'S Society of Distinguished Teachers (SDT). The SDT was formed “to honor, preserve and enhance the legacy of medical education” at the School of Medicine. Seated: Marcus Coe (left) and Josh Shofner, co-presidents of the class, presented the gift to (standing, from left) G. Eric Schonewald, of the medical school’s Office of Development, and Frank J. Bia, M.D., director of the SDT and professor of medicine and laboratory medicine.

April 30: Students and faculty went head-to-head at the DEAN’S TEAM SOFTBALL CHALLENGE, an annual event hosted by Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D. At the medical school’s 2005 Hunger and Homelessness Auction, a bidding competition among students led by Misaki Kiguchi won the privilege of competing against “Bob’s Bulldogs.” Back row, from left: David L. Coleman, M.D., Mark McRae, Gabriel Widi, Misaki Kiguchi, Kaoru Kiguchi, Karl Laskowski, Maulik Shah, Peter Juran, Joshua Shofner, Scott Kennedy, Matthew McRae, and Ryan Kaple. Front row, from left: David L. Rimm, M.D., Ph.D., Sam Glazer, Peter M. Glazer, M.D., Ph.D., Dennis L. Cooper, M.D., Alpern, Barbara Watts, Diane Kowalski, M.D., Jon S. Morrow, M.D., Ph.D., Maritza Martel, M.D., James S. Duncan, Ph.D. Not pictured: Caryn St. Clair, Richard Silverman. (Silverman, the School of Medicine’s director of admissions and Bulldogs pitcher, lost a towering pop fly in the sun and left the game early to have his lip stitched up. Rimm injured his Achilles tendon, and Coleman tore a hamstring.

May 4: A reception for attendees of the inaugural KAVLI SYMPOSIUM, dedicated to the memory of the late Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D., was held at the New Haven home of Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., chair and Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology and director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. 1. From left: Keynote speaker Thomas R. Insel, M.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Rakic and Arvid Carlsson, M.L., M.D., a winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2000. 2. Amy F.T. Arnsten, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology, with colleague Gordon M. Shepherd, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurobiology. 3. Paul Greengard, Ph.D., of Rockefeller University. Greengard shared the 2000 Nobel Prize with Carlsson and with another Kavli Symposium keynote speaker, Eric R. Kandel, M.D., of Columbia University. 4. From left: Helen Barbas, Ph.D., of Boston University, Michael Petrides, Ph.D., of McGill University and Joaquin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles. 5. From left: Wen-Jun Gao, M.D., Ph.D., of Drexel University, Clare M. Bergson, Ph.D., of the Medical College of Georgia, and Nenad Sestan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology.

May 15: A reception followed the inaugural lecture sponsored by THE GILBERT H. GLASER, M.D., FUND FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN NEUROLOGY. Glaser, professor emeritus of neurology, was instrumental in establishing neurology as a medical specialty. 1. At a plaque presentation commemorating the establishment of the fund were (from left) Timothy Pedley, M.D., the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, who delivered the lecture, Morfydd Glaser, Gareth Glaser, Sarah Glaser, Barbara Glaser and Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D., Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Molecular Neurology and chair of the Department of Neurology.
2. Gilbert Glaser with Frank Esposito, former instrumentation specialist for the Department of Neurology.