Journalist's talk will focus on the crisis mentality in the media
John Stossel, an investigative journalist with ABC News, will present a lecture titled "Pandering to Fear: The Media's Crisis Mentality" on Tuesday, Sept. 19.
The lecture, sponsored by the Yale College Student Union, is free and open to the public, and will take place at 7 p.m. in the Law School Auditorium, 127 Wall St. For more information, call (203) 436-2952.
After working as a researcher for KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon, and as consumer editor for WCBS-TV in New York City, Stossel joined the ABC news magazine "20/20" in 1981. He began doing one-hour prime-time specials in 1994.
Stossel's specials have included "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?," about fears over risks such as crime and pollution; "Junk Science: What You Know That May Not Be So," about bogus scientific claims; and "Freeloaders," about the appeal of getting something for nothing. In a new segment for "20/20" titled "Give Me a Break," he takes skeptical looks at people who want to censor cartoons, regulate flagpoles and have Congress rule on what prices are fair.
Stossel won 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club.
Norton D. Zinder, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University, will discuss "Living with the Genome" on Wednesday, Sept. 20.
A former dean of graduate and post-graduate education at The Rockefeller University, Zinder has written extensively on the Genome Project to map and determine the chemical sequence of the three billion nucleotide base pairs that comprise the human genome, and its ethical implications.
Zinder is a member of the Council of Founders, the Human Genome Organization, a private organization of international scientists; the President's Council; the Academy of Sciences; and the World Institute of Science. His awards include the Medal of Excellence from Columbia University and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award in Scientific Freedom & Responsibility.
Zinder will first present his lecture for members of the Yale community at noon in the lower level conference room of the Institution for Social & Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. Lunch will be provided at this meeting. Zinder will then present his lecture for the general public at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. A reception will follow the evening lecture. For more information or lunch reservations, call Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or e-mail carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Mark Schoofs, a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal specializing in science and medicine, will be the keynote speaker at the conference "AIDS in Africa: A Discussion" on Thursday, Sept. 21, at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St.
Schoofs, a 1985 graduate of Yale College, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for his eight-part series in The Village Voice titled "AIDS: The Agony of Africa," which also received the Overseas Press Club Award for best interpretive reporting. Schoofs's work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post and Esquire.
Schoofs also received the 1997 Science Journalism prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the publishers of Science magazine, for his series on genetics, among other honors.
"AIDS in Africa," co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health's Division of Global Health, will examine the extent and impact of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and its implications for HIV research and work in the United States. Scheduled events include presentations and dramatic readings.
The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information or to register, e-mail cira@biomed.med.yale.edu or call (203) 764-4333.
David K. Mensah, executive director of CARP, Inc., a non-profit AIDS housing organization, will be one of the featured speakers on a keynote panel discussing "AIDS and Communities of Color in Connecticut" on Friday, Sept. 22, at the Laboratory of Epidemiology & Public Health, 60 College St.
CARP, Inc. provides residential and support services for HIV-positive, addicted and mentally ill homeless adults. As executive director of the organization, Mensah has enlarged agency services and the client base from 6 to 45 residents, implemented the first transitional living program for HIV-positive adults, increased the organization's budget from $300,000 to $1.4 million and broadened the scope of the agency to develop Connecticut's first Safe Haven Model Housing program for active substance abusers who are seriously mentally ill, homeless and living with HIV/AIDS.
Mensah, a 1989 graduate of Yale Divinity School, co-chairs the New Haven Homeless Continuum of Care Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition and South Central Behavioral Health Coalition. He is also a member of the New Haven Mayor's Task Force on AIDS, New Haven Fairfield County Ryan White Title-I Planning Council and New Haven HIV/AIDS Collaborative.
The keynote panel is the highlight of the conference "AIDS Science Day," which will also feature panel discussions, community booths and poster sessions. The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information about the time of the panel or to register, call (203) 764-4333 or email cira@biomed.med.yale.edu.
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