Dr. Harvey Cantor of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will deliver the 15th annual Richard K. Gershon Lecture on Monday, Nov. 19.
The lecture will be presented at 4 p.m. in Rm. 216 in the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St. Sponsored by the Section of Immunobiology at the School of Medicine, the lecture is free and open to the public.
Cantor is currently the chair of cancer immunology and AIDS at Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which is part of the larger "Partners" Cancer Center that spans all of Harvard's hospitals. His numerous awards include the Borden Medical Research Prize for his research demonstrating that mice with a porta-caval shunt did not develop delayed hypersensitivity to fed antigens, a finding that is to this day unexplained, and the prestigious Leadership Award from his alma mater, the New York University School of Medicine.
David Komansky, chair and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, will be the next speaker in the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum Program on Wednesday, Nov. 28.
His talk, titled "Dave's Excellent Adventure," will take place 11:45 a.m.1 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Komansky joined Merrill Lynch in 1968 as a financial consultant. He moved from sales management responsibilities, through several positions in regional management of the private client group, to the position of president and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch Realty and later Merrill Lynch Realty/Fine Homes International. In 1988 he was appointed director of national sales for the private client group. He was appointed chair and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch in 1997.
Dale Hattis, research professor with the Center for Technology, Environment and Development of the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University, will speak as part of the Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 28.
He will discuss "Draft 'Ideals' for Risk Analysis" at noon at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), 77 Prospect St., and again at 4 p.m. in Rm. 608 of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St. Lunch will be provided at the noon meeting for those who contact Carol Pollard in advance at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu. Sponsored by ISPS, both lectures are free and open to the public.
Hattis has been engaged in the development and application of methodology to assess the health, ecological and economic impacts of regulatory actions for the past 26 years. His work has focused on the development of methodology to incorporate interindividual variability data and quantitative mechanistic information into risk assessments for both cancer and non-cancer endpoints. A fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, Hattis serves on the editorial board of its journal, Risk Analysis.
Human rights activist Mehrangiz Kar will deliver the Dean's Lecture, "Crisis of Democracy in Contemporary Iran," on Thursday, Nov. 29, 12:302 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St.
The public is invited to this free event.
A leading Iranian pro-reform lawyer, Kar has actively and successfully worked toward the reform of family law in Iran. Her stated aim is to pave the way for these laws to be made compatible with the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which was approved by the United Nations in 1979.
In January Kar was sentenced to four years' imprisonment on the charge of acting against national security and disseminating propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran by attending a social and cultural conference titled "The Future of Reform in Iran" in Berlin in April 2000. A forceful critic of the low age of marriage consent for girls, Kar spoke of reforming Iranian law relating to the rights of the child at the conference. She was later acquitted on appeal.
Yesim Arat '78, a specialist on women and Islam in Turkey, will be the guest at a master's tea on Thursday, Nov. 29.
The tea will take place at 4 p.m. in the Pierson College master's house, 231 Park St., and is co-sponsored by Pierson College and the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. All are invited to this free event.
A member of the fourth Yale College class to include women, Arat is currently chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. She teaches courses on gender and politics in the contemporary Middle East and has published books and articles on a range of gender-related issues, including female politicians in Turkey, feminism and Islam, and modernity and women in Turkey. She has focused recently on the world views of the pro-Islamist Welfare party women activists.
John G. Mitchell, environment editor for National Geographic magazine, will discuss "Writing and Editing the Environment
at National Geographic" on Thursday,
Nov. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.
His talk is sponsored by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES)
Mitchell is a senior editor at National Geographic, specializing in environmental and natural resource issues. His most recent articles covered the changing priorities of the Bureau of Land Management, the battle over whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and uncontrolled urban development. He is the author of six books, including National Geographic's "The Wildlife Photographs," "The Man Who Would Dam the Amazon and Other Accounts from Afield" and "The Hunt."
A 1954 graduate of Yale College, Mitchell was selected in 1980 as a Richard King Mellon Fellow at F&ES.
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Laurence B. Kanter will discuss the recently reunited Fra Angelico panels on view at the Yale University Art Gallery on Thursday, Nov. 29.
Titled "Fra Angelico: Old and New Problems," Kanter's talk will be held at
5:30 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. The program is free and the public is welcome.
Kanter was the first art historian to suspect a connection between the Yale Art Gallery's two Fra Angelico panels and corresponding panels at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. His research along with work by conservators at the Getty and Yale confirmed the association. Four panels from what was once a triptych are now reassembled and on display on the second floor of the Yale Art Gallery.
Kanter is curator-in-charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a position he has held since 1988. Prior to that appointment, he was assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and director of Old Master paintings at Colnaghi & Co. in New York.
Dr. Barry S. Zuckerman, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and professor of pediatrics and public health at Boston University School of Medicine, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 30.
His talk, titled "From Programs to Policy, Or Little Things Can Have a Big Impact," will take place at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. For more information about this free event, call (203) 432-9935.
Zuckerman's major interests include promoting the health and development of children, training child professionals from all disciplines and establishing more effective child health services. He has developed and implemented programs for children that emphasize prevention and extend beyond traditional medical care in Boston and throughout the country. These include the Reach Out and Read Program to promote literacy, the Healthy Steps national trial of expanded pediatric services and the Family Advocacy Program, which integrates legal advocacy and policy work within a pediatric setting.
The author of more than 150 scientific papers and the editor of four books, Zuckerman played a significant role in the development of the American Academy of Pediatrics Child Health Supervision Guidelines and the government-sponsored Bright Futures Guidelines for Preventive Health Care.
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Specialist on women and Islam in Turkey to be guest at tea
National Geographic editor
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Reunited Fra Angelico panels
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Bush Center talk to examine programs and policy for children
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