Hong Kong legislator to discuss 'one country, two systems'
Margaret Ng, Hong Kong legislator, lawyer and journalist, will discuss "One Country, Two Systems -- Five Years Down the Road" on Monday, March 4.
The talk will take place at noon in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The event is sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Asia Law Forum, and lunch will be provided. For information, call (203) 432-3426 or visit www.yale.edu/ycias/ceas/events.html.
Ng is a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and a practicing barrister in Hong Kong. She was a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council up to June 30, 1997, the date of Hong Kong's handover from Great Britain to China, representing the Legal Functional Constituency. She was returned by the same constituency in the latest election in 1998.
A noted commentator and writer in both English and Chinese, Ng was publisher of the Ming Pao News 1988-1990 and deputy editor-in-chief of the paper 1986-1987. She remains a regular contributor to Hong Kong newspapers. Ng is currently a member of the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Operation.
Anthony A. Williams '79, mayor of Washington D.C., will visit campus on Monday, March 4, as the second Eustace D. Theodore '63 Fellow.
In addition to meeting with students and faculty, Williams will speak at two events. He will be the guest at a tea at 2 p.m. in the Pierson College master's house, 231 Park St. He will then make a public presentation at Battell Chapel 4-5:30 p.m. His talk will focus on the priorities he has addressed in undertaking his challenging role in the nation's capital.
Williams began serving as the fourth mayor of the District of Columbia in 1999. He has received national attention for his work to restore fiscal health to the troubled city administration and for his unusual approach to politics.
Prior to joining the D.C. government in 1995, Williams was appointed the first chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by President Clinton. He previously served as the deputy state comptroller of Connecticut, executive director of the Community Development Agency in St. Louis, Missouri, assistant director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority and adjunct professor at Columbia University. He was elected to the New Haven Board of Aldermen, where he served as president pro-tempore.
The Eustace D. Theodore '63 Fellowship was created and funded by the leadership of the Class of 1963 to honor classmate Eustace Theodore, who served as dean of Calhoun College 1972-1981 and as executive director of the Association of Yale Alumni 1981-1997. The fellowship is awarded to an alumnus or alumna who exemplifies the distinct and diverse purposes to which alumni put their Yale educations. Fellowships are jointly administered by the Association of Yale Alumni and the masters of Pierson and Calhoun colleges.
John B. Morrell '86, lead dynamics engineer for the Segway Human Transporter, will be the next speaker in the Sesquicentennial Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series on Tuesday, March 5.
His talk, titled "Developing Segways: The Struggle for Smooth Transitions Between Research and Production," will begin at 4 p.m. in Davies Auditorium of Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center, 15 Prospect St. The event is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and the Yale chapter of the scientific research society Sigma Xi.
In the course of developing the Segway Human Transporter, the product development team generated a number of methodologies for taking new technologies out of a research environment and into a consumer product. In his lecture, Morrell will present some of these methodologies and examples of their use in developing the Segway.
Morrell started with Deka Research and Development in 1996 as the lead control engineer on the IBOT, a mobility device that allows disabled people to climb stairs and stand at eye-level by using dynamic stabilization technology. In 1999 he joined a team to develop the control software and system design of a two-wheeled mobility device, code-named "Ginger."
For the past three years, Morrell has lead the development of many of the core technologies for the Segway Transporter, including development of control architectures and algorithms and their implementation into production software. He currently manages dynamics and software development at Segway.
Jeffrey G. Miller, associate dean for graduate studies and professor of law at the Pace University School of Law, will discuss "Using Federal Environmental Statues to Promote Social Justice" on Wednesday, March 6.
Part of the School of Forestry & Environmental Science's Distinguished Lecture series "The Restoration Agenda: Environmental Justice," the lecture will take place 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Those who attend are invited to bring a brown bag lunch; refreshments will be served.
Miller's career in environmental law has spanned three decades. He spent the first decade with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where he served as an enforcement official in Boston and Washington, D.C., and directed the EPA's national enforcement program. His second decade was in private practice, representing corporate and public interest clients in environmental litigation as a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm. Miller is spending the third decade of his career teaching environmental law.
Miller has served on the board of directors of the Environmental Law Institute and Envirosafe Services, Inc., and is presently on the board of Enviro-Source. He is the author of "Citizen Suits: Private Enforcement of Federal Pollution Control Law," the law casebook "The Law of Hazardous Waste Disposal and Remediation," chapters in several books and articles on environmental law topics.
Members of the Yale and New Haven communities are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Gordon Geballe at (203) 432-5122 or C. Murphy-Dunning at (203) 432-6570.
John D. Negroponte '60, U.S. representative to the United Nations, will speak on "U.S. Priorities at the United Nations since Sept. 11" on Thursday, March 7, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St.
The talk will be followed by a public reception.
From 1960 to 1997, Negroponte was a member of the Career Foreign Service. He served at eight Foreign Service posts in Asia, Europe and Latin America, including as ambassador to Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines.
Negroponte held the post of deputy assistant secretary of state with the rank of ambassador for oceans and fisheries affairs 1976-1979, and he served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs in 1980. From 1985 to 1987 he was assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environment and scientific affairs.
President Ronald Reagan named Negroponte deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, a post Negroponte held until 1989. From 1997 to 2001, he was executive vice president for global markets of The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was appointed U.S. Representative to the United Nations in 2001.
Negroponte is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy, and a former chair of the French-American Foundation. His visit is co-sponsored by International Security Studies and the Academic Council on the United Nations System.
José Cutiliero, the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, will speak on "Minding Other People's Business: Bosnia, Kosovo and the New Europe" on Thursday, March 7, at
The lecture is co-sponsored by the European Union Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Globalization.
Cutiliero currently serves as the special representative of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. From 1994 to 1999 he was the secretary general of the Western European Union, then the only European military organization. In 1992, as coordinator of the European Community's Conference on Yugoslavia, he presided over talks on future constitutional arrangements for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also originally negotiated Portugal's accession to the Western European Union in 1988.
An anthropologist, Cutiliero was a research fellow of St. Antony's College 1968-1971 and was a lecturer in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science until 1974, after which he joined the Portuguese Foreign Service.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For information, call (203) 432-1904.
Dr. Jimmi Holland, chair and professor of psychiatry at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York will present the Bayer Lecture on Thursday, March 7.
Titled "The Human Side of Cancer: A Neglected Aspect of Care," the lecture will take place at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. Sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine, the event is free and open to the public.
According to Holland, cancer was so stigmatized that only in the mid-1970s did doctors in the United States begin to tell patients that they were diagnosed with the disease. This provided Holland with the opportunity to begin exploring the psychological dimension of illness, which developed into the field of psycho-oncology.
After reviewing societal attitudes, Holland found that personal attributes, social support and the nature of the illness itself contribute to the manner in which each person copes with cancer. His research has provided new insights into this aspect of care.
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