Yale Bulletin
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February 8-15, 1999Volume 27, Number 20


























Wetland restoration is subject of talk at Forestry School

"Wetland Restoration: Do We Know What We're Doing?" is the topic of the next talk in the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunchtime series titled "The Restoration Agenda: Focus on Plants" at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES). The featured speaker will be Jon Kusler, executive director of the Association of State Wetland Managers. His talk will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 10.

Kusler is president of J.A. Kusler and Associates, an environmental policy consulting firm, and has 30 years of experience working with issues in water resources management and the management of water-related lands.He comes to Yale shortly after leading a Feb. 3-4 national workshop on "Wetlands and Climate Change." He will discuss the tolerance of plants to changes in precipitation and temperature, and whether organisms migrate fast enough to allow for reestablishment when displaced from a habitat.

The F&ES "Restoration Agenda" series is cosponsored by the Society for Ecological Restoration and the New Haven Land Trust, and receives additional support from the Watershed Fund of the Regional Water Authority and Roots Inc.

The weekly Wednesday talks are from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium at Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Participants are invited to bring a brown bag lunch for the post-lecture discussion. For registration information, contact Aimlee D. Laderman, lecturer in wetland ecology and research affiliate at the F&ES, telephone 432-3335, or e-mail aimlee.laderman@yale.edu.


Music School hosts talk by Chicago Symphony president

Henry Fogel, president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will discuss "The Future of the American Orchestra" as a guest of the School of Music's Cultural Leadership Series on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 12:30 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St. Admission to the talk is free, and the public is invited.

Fogel oversees the operations of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra -- considered one of the top orchestras in the world -- as well as the organization's independent series of classical, jazz and popular attractions, the Civic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Chorus and the orchestra hall and symphony center facilities. He was appointed executive director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1985. In 1996, his title was changed to president to reflect more accurately the scope of his wide-ranging duties. Fogel recently completed oversight of a $105 million renovation and expansion of the symphony's performance venue, Orchestra Hall.

For further information, call 432-4158.


London art critic to discuss works by Bacon and Moore

"Violence and Vitality: The Figure in Bacon and Moore" is the title of a talk being presented by independent art critic David Cohen on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 5:15 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. Admission to the museum and lecture is free.

Cohen writes for the British press and for art magazines around the world, including Art in America and ArtNet. He also contributes to The New York Times and other major newspapers. In addition to sculpture, he specializes in contemporary British art and has written extensively on the School of London painters. He has a special interest in American painting, and is currently studying the printmaking of Alex Katz. His writings about Henry Moore can be found in "Celebrating Moore: Works for the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation" and "Henry Moore in the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris."

Cohen's lecture is the second in a series of talks being presented in conjunction with the current major exhibitions at the Yale Center for British Art.


Irish poet will read from her works at Beinecke Library

Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill will read from her work in both English and Irish on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 4 p.m. at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, corner of Wall and High streets. The event is free and open to the public.

Born in Lancashire, England, Ní Dhomhnaill grew up in the Irish-speaking areas of West Kerry and in Tipperary. She attended University College Cork, where she has subsequently taught. She has published three collections of poems in Irish: "An Dealg Droighin" and "Féar Suaithinseach," both of which won the Seán O Riordáin Award and the Arts Council Prize for Poetry, and "Feis." Her other works include "Selected Poems/"Rogha Dánta," with translations by Michael Hartnett; "Pharaoh's Daughter," a bilingual book of new and selected poems with translations into English by 13 poets, including Seamus Heaney and John Montague; and "The Astrakhan Cloak," a selection of poems from "Feis" translated into English by Paul Muldoon. She edited "'Jumping Off Shadows' Selected Contemporary Irish Poets."

A member of Poetry Ireland and the Irish Writers' Union, Ní Dhomhnaill was elected to Aosdána, an affiliation of Irish artists, writers and musicians.


'Father of neurosurgery' is topic of medical school talk

Dr. Robert M. Crowell, professor of surgery (neurosurgery) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, will present a lecture titled "Young Cushing: The Right Stuff" on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine.

Crowell will discuss Harvey Cushing, the so-called "father of neurosurgery," who helped develop the field at Yale after joining the faculty in 1934. While Cushing's first 10 brain tumor patients died, the surgeon carried on with his work, eventually reaching a patient mortality rate of less than 10 percent.

Crowell received his neurosurgical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he practiced for 20 years. He is the author of over 150 articles and books, many devoted to neurovascular topics. In addition to teaching at UMass, he also practices at the Berkshire Medical Center.


Child care services for teen moms is topic of Bush Center talk

"Child Care and Support Services for Teen Mothers in a Public High School" will be the topic of a talk sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy on Friday, Feb. 12, at noon in
Rm. 119 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The speakers are Lori Nordstrom, president and founder of the Elizabeth Celotto Child Care Center at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven; Lorraine DeLuz, director of the center; and Lois Sadler, assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing. The event is free and open to the public.

Nordstrom is a 1989 graduate of Yale College and a 1994 graduate of the Yale Law School. While in law school, she worked with teen mothers, community groups and the New Haven Public Schools to create a school-based child care center at Wilbur Cross High School. Upon graduation from law school, she founded the Legal Organization for Teens, where she provides legal representation and education to New Haven area adolescents and teaches workshops educating attorneys and social service professionals about adolescents and the law.

DeLuz formerly was day care director of the Mothers' Project for the APT Foundation in New Haven, and was head teacher in the Elm Haven Community Head Start Program and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Infant Toddler Day Care Center. An alumna of the School of Nursing, Sadler is now the pediatric nurse practitioner specialty director there.


Noted architects share their thoughts on modern work

The School of Architecture will host two talks by noted architects this week as part of its lecture series featuring some of the leaders in the field. On Monday, Feb. 8, Terence Riley, chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), will deliver the Brendan Gill Lecture on the topic "Rethinking the Modern." On Monday, Feb. 15, Philip Johnson will discuss "Current Works." Both talks will be held at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall of the Art and Architecture Building, 180 York St. The lectures are free and open to the public; however, seating is limited.

Riley joined MoMA in 1991 and has since curated many shows there, including exhibitions on Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and Frank Lloyd Wright. He has received an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Faculty Design Award and has twice been a finalist for the International Andrea Palladio Award for Architecture, among other honors.

Johnson, who has been an architect, critic and curator for more than half a century, is teaching at Yale this semester as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design. The recipient of architecture's highest awards, he has held key positions at MoMA, including serving as the founding director of the department of architecture and design. Among his most recent works is a design that introduced a new technology for integrating images into the facade of a skyscraper and a design, which was recently approved for manufacture, of a monumental clock in a public space at Lincoln Center.


Final Castle Lecture to focus on democracy

Stephen Holmes, a member of the department of politics at Princeton University, will present the third and final Castle Lecture in Ethics, Politics and Economics at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 22. Titled "Political Theory and the End of Communism: Democracy," the lecture will take place in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. A reception will follow in the Law School faculty lounge. Both events are free and open to the public.

Holmes is editor-in-chief of the East European Constitutional Review and is the author of several books, including "Passion and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy" and "Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism." He has spent much of the past five years in Russia and Eastern Europe. In his first two lectures, Holmes illustrated and analyzed markets and rights in the post-communist world.

The Castle Lectures were endowed by John K. Castle to honor his ancestor, the Reverend James Pierpont, who was one of Yale's founders. The lectures in the series are published in book form by the Yale University Press. Past Castle Lecturers include Abba Eban, Lester Thurow, Paul Tsongas, Sissela Bok and Michael Walzer.

For further information, contact Beth Weinberger at 432-4284 or beth.weinberger@yale.edu.