Discoverer of 'Titanic' to speak at events
Marine explorer Robert Ballard, best known as the discoverer of the sunken "R.M.S. Titanic," will visit campus on Monday, Oct. 23, as a Morgado Fellow.
Ballard will be the guest at a master's tea at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. He will then present a talk, titled "Exploration of the Black Sea," at 8 p.m. in Room 201 of Sudler Hall in William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Ballard is founder and president of the Institute For Exploration of the Sea Research Foundation in Mystic. The institute advances marine research by utilizing evolving technology such as sophisticated mapping and imaging systems, underwater robotics and manned submersibles, and shares Ballard's most recent discoveries with millions of visitors in an exhibit center at Mystic Aquarium.
For 30 years Ballard was a senior scientist and director of the Center for Marine Exploration at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He also founded the Jason Project in 1989 after receiving thousands of letters from children wanting to know how he discovered the "Titanic."
Ballard has led or participated in more than 100 deep-sea expeditions. His other discoveries include the German battleship "Bismarck" and the luxury liner "Lusitania." His expeditions included the first manned exploration of the Mid-ocean Ridge.
Ricardo Esquivia, director of Justapaz, the Mennonite Office for Justice, Peace and Non-Violence, will speak at two campus events on Monday, Oct. 23.
Esquivia will be a guest at a tea at 4 p.m. in the Silliman College master's house, 505 College St. He will then discuss "Non-Violence and the U.S.-Colombia Relationship" at 7 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. Both events are free and open to the public.
The Mennonite Church in Colombia grew out of a school opened by missionaries for the healthy children of lepers. Esquivia was one of those children. With this Mennonite background of non-violence, Esquivia went on to become a lawyer and grassroots activist.
As director of Justapaz, Esquivia works with those displaced by violence and attempts to build peace in the midst of war. He heads the Commission on Human Rights and Peace of the Colombia Council of the Evangelical Church, an organization that brings together people from different churches to respond to community suffering and work toward social reconstruction. He is also co-coordinator of the Permanent Assembly of the Civil Society of Peace, the largest coalition of peace groups in Colombia, which hopes to influence the fragile peace negotiations between the Colombian government and guerrillas.
For more information, contact the University Chaplain's Office at (203) 432-1128 or Hilary Kaplan at (203) 432-2446.
Jose Goldemberg, an authority on energy and the environment, will speak at two campus events on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
Goldemberg will first be a guest of a tea at 2:30 p.m. in the Morse College master's house, 302-304 York St. He will then present a talk on "The Environmental Goes Global: Who Creates the Problems and Who Can Solve Them?" Part of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies centennial lecture series "Globalization and the Environment," this talk will take place at 4:45 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Goldemberg is one of four recipients of this year's Volvo Environmental Prize for his work on a new policy-driven approach to the technical analysis of world energy needs, and how those needs can be met in the early decades of this new century.
A native of Brazil, Goldemberg earned his Ph.D. in physical science from the University of Sao Paulo, where he later served as rector and professor. He directed the energy company of the State of Sao Paulo and served the federal government as secretary of state for science and technology, interim secretary of the environment and minister of education.
Goldemberg is the author of numerous technical papers and books, including the acclaimed collaborative work "Energy for a Sustainable World." He has presided over the Brazilian Association for the Advancement of Science, the Brazilian Society of Physics and the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science.
Stanley Fischer, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will present the 14th Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture Series on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 24 and 25.
Fischer will give two lectures on the general topic "The International Financial System: Crises and Reform." The first lecture, "The First Financial Crises of the 21st Century: From Mexico, 1994, to Brazil, 1999," will take place on Tuesday. Fisher will then discuss "Reform of the IMF and the International Financial System" on Wednesday. Both lectures will be given at 4-5:30 p.m. in Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The series is free and the public is invited.
Prior to assuming the post of first deputy managing director of the IMF in 1994, Fischer was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago and the Killian Professor and head of the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1988 to 1990, he served as vice president of development economics and chief economist at the World Bank.
Fischer also held visiting positions at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is the author of "Macroeconomics" (with Rudi Dornbusch) and other books, and has published extensively in professional journals.
Sponsored by the Economic Growth Center, this lecture series honors the memory of the late Simon Kuznets, a Nobel laureate who helped to establish the center in 1961.
Wendell Primus, director of the Income Security Division at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, will speak on Friday, Oct. 27, as part of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series.
His talk, titled "What Do We Know About Welfare Reform Impacts and Where Do We Go From Here?" will take place at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory,
9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Primus is currently working to expand the center's research in areas including federal policy related to the 1996 federal welfare law, Social Security, unemployment insurance, and income and poverty trends. His recent publications include "An Analysis of 1999 Census Poverty and Income Data" and "Improving Child Well-being by Focusing in Low-income Non-custodial Parents in Maryland."
Prior to joining the center's staff in 1997, Primus worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving as the deputy assistant secretary for human services policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. In this capacity, he was responsible for policy development and for conducting research and evaluation on issues relating to human service programs. He has also served as chief economist for the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee and staff director for the committee's Subcommittee on Human Resources.
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