Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 21, 2000

Volume 28, Number 29

Administrator of EPA to speak at School of Forestry

Carol M. Browner, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will discuss "Protecting Public Health and the Environment into the Next Century" at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 26, in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.

Sponsored by the Industrial Environmental Management Group of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the American Water Resources Association and the Center for Environmental Law & Policy, the event is free and open to the public.

Appointed by President Clinton in January 1993, Browner is now the longest serving administrator in the history of the EPA. Her mission as administrator is to protect public health and the environment by safeguarding the nation's air, water and land from harmful pollution.

Browner is guided by the philosophy that safeguarding the environment means protecting where we live and how we live, and that a healthy environment and a vibrant economy go hand in hand.

In 1999, Browner announced new clean air standards for cars, trucks and gasoline which will reduce smog-causing air pollution by almost 50 million tons. She helped lead efforts to develop and implement Clinton's Clean Water Action Plan to clean and restore rivers, lakes and coastal waters. She has also sped up the rehabilitation of the most severe toxic waste sites, among other contributions.

Thomas Mann is topic of Humanities in Medicine lecture

Krisztina Miko, professor emerita of comparative literature at the Peter Pazmany University in Budapest, Hungary, will present a lecture titled "Eros & Thanatos: Dysfunctional Sexuality in Thomas Mann's Prose" on Thursday, April 27.

The lecture, part of the Program for Humanities in Medicine, will begin at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The event is free and open to the public.

Miko will examine Mann's novels and short stories and attempt to remove the writer's masks and reveal the private person within, exposing Mann's latent bisexuality, his paranoiac fear of death and his perpetual guilt.He will demonstrate how the writer overcame his inhibitions and began freely disclosing his innermost yearnings and anxieties not only in his diaries but through his fictional characters as well.

Na/phosphate cotransporter is topic of Berliner lecture

Dr. Heini Murer, professor and chair at the Institute of Physiology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, will deliver the eighth annual Robert W. Berliner Lecture on Thursday, May 4.

Murer's talk, titled "The Type II Na/Phosphate Cotransporter: Its Structure, Function and Regulation," will start at 1 p.m. in Brady Auditorium, 310 Cedar St. The event, sponsored by the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and the Section of Nephrology, is free and open to the public.

Internationally known for his work on the cellular and molecular control of epithelial transport proteins of the intestine and the kidney, Murer is particularly noted for his studies of coupled transport of phosphate, sulfate, glucose and amino acids, as well as of sodium-proton exchange.

The Robert W. Berliner Lecture honors the 1936 Yale College graduate who served as dean of the School of Medicine from 1973 to 1984.

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Noted educator David Tyack to deliver the Giamatti Lecture

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Radiologist is honored for his achievements

School of Medicine study shows boom in demand for radiologists

Yale's Toumey Forest expands by 450 acres through exchange

Art gallery exhibit explores artist's dramatic style change

Student-run production explores the more carefree days of Eugene O'Neill's life

Memorial service is planned for chemical engineer Charles Walker

Nursing professor Judith Krauss is appointed to governor's commission

Annual Perlis symposium will feature experts on computer programming language

Kaplan will discuss national strategy for HIV prevention as Omega Rho Lecturer

Remembrance gathering for Chester Kerr

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