Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 28, 2000

Volume 28, Number 30

Justice of Supreme Court of Canada to speak at Law School

The Honourable Madam Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé of the Supreme Court of Canada will discuss "The Equality Principle in Canada" at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 28, in the faculty lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St.

The talk is free and open to the public.

L'Heureux-Dubé graduated cum laude from the Laval University Law Faculty in 1951 and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1952. After practicing law at the firms L'Heureux, Philippon, Garveau, Tourigny & St-Arnaud and Bard, L'Heureux & Philippon, she was appointed to the Superior Court of Quebec in 1983, the Quebec Court of Appeal in 1979 and the Supreme Court of Canada in 1987.

A member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, L'Heureux-Dubé was previously a member of such organizations as the International Society on Family Law, the National Council of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation, Quebec Association of Comparative Law, International Academia of Comparative Law, the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Law Institute.

In addition to numerous honorary degrees, L'Heureux-Dubé's honors include medals from the Quebec Bar, Montreal Bar, Bar of Quebec and the International Year of the Family in Quebec, the Canadian Award from Canadian Hadassah-WIZO, the Justice Award from the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice and the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession.

Psychologist to explore 'human side of terrorism'

Leila F. Dane, a clinical psychologist specializing in traumatic stress and conflict resolution, will present a lecture titled "Human Side of Terrorism: Families, Government & Media" on Thursday, May 4.

The talk, 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.

Dane is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Victims of Trauma, a non-governmental organization specializing in programs for the support of victims, the study of violence issues, consultation and policy development related to trauma management. In 1998, Dane drafted the Resolution for Mental Health Services to Victims of Community Violence, which was adopted as policy by the World Federation for Mental Health.

A recognized expert on violence and ethno-political warfare, Dane has trained counselors working with the traumatized in Kuwait, East Jerusalem, Oklahoma City, Aden and Algiers. In 1991, she co-founded The Joint Program on Conflict Resolution, which seeks to build tolerance for diversity and to develop and exchange information on resolving and preventing intergroup conflict in the Middle East.

In her talk, Dane will review a human rights exercise from U.S. military training to clarify the frustration-aggression basis of terrorism. She will define the psychosocial correlates of terrorist behavior and show comparisons of personality features with gang members in the United States.

Nobel winner to present Palade Lecture on cell biology

Dr. Günter Blobel, the John D. Rockefeller Professor of Cell Biology at Rockefeller University, will present the first George Palade Lecture in Cell Biology on Thursday, May 4.

Blobel will discuss "Protein Translocation Across Membranes," a topic for which he won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, at 4 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. Sponsored by the Department of Cell Biology and the School of Medicine, the lecture is free and open to the public.

Blobel and his colleagues were the first to propose the idea that short amino acid sequences, or signal sequences, target proteins for entry into the secretory pathway via receptors located on the surface of membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum. His studies subsequently elucidated how these signals are decoded and identified mechanisms mediating the translocation of nascent polypeptide chains across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane.

Blobel also generalized the concept of the cell's "zip code" system to other protein targeting reactions. Current studies in his laboratory are defining how macromolecules are transported between the cytoplasm and the nucleus via the nuclear pore complex. The work from his laboratory is now recognized as defining the universal paradigm by which each of the thousands of proteins that a cell makes faithfully end up at their proper destinations.

This lectureship honors the contributions of Dr. George E. Palade, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, to the modern field of cell biology and to the establishment of cell biology at Yale.

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