Dr. Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet, will present the 52nd Keynote Lecture given annually by the Associates of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the School of Medicine.
The lecture, titled "The Journalization of Science: Treachery Versus Trust," will begin at 4 p.m. in the Historical Library in the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The talk is free and open to the public.
The Lancet is considered the world's leading independent general medical journal. Horton helped open The Lancet's editorial office in New York City in 1993 and remained there for two years before his present appointment in the London offices.
Horton's editorials have addressed many current controversies of the sciences, public health, peer review assessments and biomedical press inaccuracies. He has written commentary on such topics as "Genetically Modified Foods: 'Absurd' Concern or Welcome Dialogue?" and "The Journal Ombudsperson: A Step Toward Scientific Oversight."
Horton is an international member of editor search committees and a founding member of the Committee of Publication Ethics. He has served as president of the World Association of Medical Editors and is associate editor of two other journals, the African Journal of Medical Practice and Integrative Medicine. In 1997, Horton became a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Association for the Advancement of Science.
Horton's lecture will be streamed internationally from the Yale website www.med. yale.edu/library.
Producer James Schamus will introduce the recent film "Ride with the Devil" at 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
Schamus, a co-founder of Good Machine, co-produced and wrote the screenplay for film director Ang Lee's "Ride with the Devil," adapted from Daniel Woodrell's novel "Woe to Live On." A question-and-answer period will follow the screening, which is free and open to the public.
Schamus' other collaborations with Lee include co-writing the forthcoming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," which will star Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat; producing and writing "The Ice Storm," which received the Best Screenplay Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival; co-producing "Sense and Sensibility," which won the 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Picture; co-writing and associate producing "Eat Drink Man Woman"; producing and co-writing "The Wedding Banquet"; and producing Lee's first feature, "Pushing Hands."
Schamus was executive producer on a variety of independent films, including Todd Solondz's "Happiness," Todd Haynes's "Safe," Nicole Holofcener's "Walking and Talking," Cindy Sherman's "Office Killer," Bart Freundlich's "The Myth of Fingerprints," John O'Hagan's "Wonderland," Edward Burns's "The Brothers McMullen," Tom Noonan's "What Happened Was...," and Haynes's "Poison." These last three films and Alexandre Rockwell's "In The Soup," which Schamus associate produced, have been four of the last nine Grand Jury Prize Winners at Sundance.
Schamus is associate professor of film theory, history and criticism at Columbia University. He serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Independent Video and Film and on the board of Creative Capital.
Novelist Chang-rae Lee will be featured in two events on campus on Wednesday and Thursday, April 5 and 6.
On Wednesday at 8 p.m., Lee will read from his fiction in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The reading will be followed by a reception in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. On Thursday, Lee will be a guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Ezra Stiles College master's house, 9 Tower Pkwy. Both events, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by the John Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund and the Department of English.
Lee was born in Seoul, Korea, and emigrated to the United States at age 3. He received his B.A. in English from Yale in 1987 and his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Oregon in 1993. He was an assistant professor of creative writing and director of fiction in the creative writing program at the University of Oregon and is currently a professor of English and director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
A 20002001 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Lee is the author of "Native Speaker," which received numerous prizes and citations including the PEN/Hemingway Award and the American Book Award. His most recent novel, "A Gesture Life," was named a notable book by The New York Times and Best Book of the Year by the American Library Association.
Eugene H. Trinh, director of the Microgravity Research Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will be a Dean's Distinguished Lecturer when he visits Yale Engineering on Thursday, April 6.
His talk, titled "The Microgravity Research Program: Results and Future Direction," will take place at 4 p.m. in Davies Auditorium of Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center, 15 Prospect St. It will be followed by a reception in the faculty lounge. The lecture is free and open to the public.
In his current position at NASA, Trinh is responsible for awarding roughly 470 research grants from an annual research support budget of approximately $110 million. The grants go to researchers in the areas of fundamental physics, combustion, fluid physics, materials science and biotechnology, and all funded research is expected to produce advances clearly based on the scientific and technological advantages of low gravity and outer-space environments.
Trinh received his M.S. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1978 in applied physics from Yale. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship at Yale in 1979, Trinh assumed a position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, where he conducted research on fluid physics, materials science and biotechnology. In 1992, as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia's 14-day STS 50 scientific mission, Trinh attended to a number of experiments carried in the spacelab payload bay, including an experiment by his Yale thesis advisor Robert Apfel, the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Literary agent Andrew Wylie will be the guest at a master's tea at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
The event is free and open to the public.
Wylie represents some of the most noted writers in the world today. The roster of his clients includes Martin Amis, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, David Mamet, Elmore Leonard, Larry McMurtry and Paul Theroux. He also manages the estates of writers Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
Wylie started The Wylie Agency 18 years ago out of an extra room in his New York City apartment. Unable to afford a messenger, he ran from publishing house to publishing house to submit manuscripts simultaneously. His agency is now recognized as one of the leading literary agencies in the world, with 25 employees in offices in New York, London and Madrid.
The Wylie Agency has a strong focus on internationalism, selling their mostly American and British writers to the formerly untapped markets of Asia, Europe and Latin America. At the same time, Wylie represents writers from around the world, including a number of Japanese authors through a partnership with the Japanese agency Orion.
The Reverend Bernard L. Richardson, dean of the Andrew Ranking Memorial Chapel at Howard University, will present the annual Parks-King Lecture on Thursday, April 6.
The lecture, titled "The Significance of Dr. Martin L. King and Rosa Parks in the New Millennium," will begin at 7 p.m. in Marquand Chapel at the Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. It will be followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 436-3486 or (203) 773-9523.
Richardson, a tenured associate professor at the School of Divinity of Howard University, has conducted research in the area of pastoral counseling. His published research on the attitudes of African-American clergy toward mental health professionals is one of the few empirical research studies of its kind.
Richardson received his M.Div. from the Yale Divinity School in 1984. He was ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and served for ten years as the pastor of the Archer Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in Windsor, Connecticut.
The Parks-King Lectureship commemorates the civil rights activists Rosa Parks and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and was established in 1983 through the efforts of the Yale Black Seminarians. The lectureship communicates the contributions of African-American scholars, social theorists, pastors and social activists to the Divinity School and the wider New Haven community.
Abraham Wandersman and Lois Pall Wandersman of the University of South Carolina will speak on Friday, April 7, as part of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series.
Their talk, titled "Two Roads to First Steps (South Carolina's School Readiness Initiative): Lessons Learned from Family Support Programs, Empowerment Evaluation, Accountability and Results-Oriented Grant Making," will be held at noon in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies,
320 York St. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-9935.
Abraham Wandersman, a professor of psychology, conducts research and program evaluations on citizen participation in community organizations. His work has focused on substance abuse prevention, after-school programs and other types of community initiatives. In 1998, he received the Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice from the American Evaluation Association. He is the co-editor of "Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self Assessment and Accountability" and has served on several advisory boards concerning prevention.
Lois Pall Wandersman is a licensed clinical psychologist and adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina. She has worked extensively in the treatment and prevention of child abuse and has developed nationally recognized support and education programs for parents of newborns, adolescent parents and parents at risk for child abuse.
In their lecture, the Wandersmans will discuss their current work with First Steps, a statewide initiative for improving school readiness that involves partnerships in 46 counties in South Carolina.
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