Twelve elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

Twelve members of the Yale faculty, including 10 from the School of Medicine, were elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in April. Election is based on scientific and engineering distinction achieved through significant contributions, both theoretical and applied. The newly elected Yale faculty members are Michael J. Caplan, M.D. ’87, Ph.D. ’87, chair and C.N.H. Long Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Michael Cappello, M.D., professor of pediatrics, microbial pathogenesis, and epidemiology and public health, and director of the Yale World Fellows program; Richard E. Carson, Ph.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and of biomedical engineering, and director of the Yale pet center; Sir Peter Crane, Ph.D., Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and professor of botany;Durland Fish, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases); David A. Hafler, M.D., M.Sc., chair and Gilbert H. Glaser Professor of Neurology; Karl L. Insogna, M.D., professor of medicine (endocrinology) and director of the Yale Bone Center; Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology (chronic diseases); Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology and associate dean for faculty affairs;Lisa D. Pfefferle, Ph.D., C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Engineering; G. Shirleen Roeder, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and professor of genetics; and Robert J. Schoelkopf, Ph.D., William A. Norton Professor of Applied Physics and Physics.