September 28, 2001

Volume 30, Number 4

Yale SOM Leaders Forum will feature 3Com executive

Eric Benhamou, chair of the board of directors of 3Com Corporation, Palm Inc., will participate in the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on Wednesday, Oct. 3.

"A Conversation with the Chairman of the Board of 3Com" 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.

Benhamou cofounded Bridge Communications, an early networking pioneer, in 1981 and was vice president of engineering when it merged with 3Com in 1987. He held a variety of senior management positions at the newly merged company before serving as chief executive officer of 3Com Corporation from 1990 until 2000.

In addition to his duties at 3Com, Benhamou currently serves as chair of the board of Cypress Semiconductor, as board member of Legato, on the board of directors of Intransa and Atrica, and on the executive committee of TechNet. He also serves on the board of directors of the Stanford University School of Engineering board of advisers, as vice chair of the board of governors of Ben Gurion University and as chair of Western Governor's University's National Advisory Board.

Benhamou's honors include the President's Environment and Conservation Challenge Award in 1992; appointment to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee by former President Bill Clinton in 1997; the Foreign Investor Jubilee Award from former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1998; and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1998.

What makes a masterpiece is focus of museum lectures

Bruce Redford, the University Professor and professor of English at Boston University, will present the first of four 2001 Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lectures on Wednesday, Oct. 3.

His talk, titled "The Queen and the Dwarf: van Dyck's 'Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson'," will begin at 5:15 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, located at 1111 Chapel St. Seating is limited for this free, public event.

Prior to his tenure at Boston University, Redford taught English at the University of Chicago. His publications include "Boswell's 'Life of Johnson': An Edition of the Original Manuscript, Volume II"; the Hyde Edition of "The Letters of Samuel Johnson"; "Venice and the Grand Tour"; and the forthcoming "Designing Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'." His articles have appeared in such scholarly magazines as Apollo, The Yale University Library Gazette, Literary Imagination and The Princeton University Library Chronicle.

The Andrew Carnduff Memorial Lecture Series was established by Jane T. Ritchie in memory of her husband, who was director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971. This year's series will address the question of what makes a masterpiece. Four leading scholars will each examine a single work from the museum's exhibition "Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney," on view through Dec. 30.

For more information about the lecture series, call (203) 432-2800 or visit www.yale.edu/ycba.

Toxicologist to speak in ISPS risk assessment forum

Edward J. Calabrese, professor of toxicology at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health, will discuss "The History of the Dose-Response Relationship: Reassessing the Foundations of Toxicology" at two campus events on Wednesday, Oct. 3.

Part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum, Calabrese will first speak at noon at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. He will then present a more formal lecture at 4 p.m. in the John R. Paul Seminar Room of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St. Both talks are free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided at the noon event for those who contact Carol Pollard in advance at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

A board-certified toxicologist, Calabrese has researched extensively in the area of host factors affecting susceptibility to pollutants. His presentation will focus on the historical foundations of hormesis, including its transition from an initially central concept to a marginalized one during the early decades of the 20th century. He will consider how and why this transition occurred and its impact on modern toxicology and risk assessment.

Calabrese is the author of more than 450 papers in scholarly journals and 30 books. He has been a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and NATO Countries Safe Drinking Water committees, and of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Nobel Prize-winning economist to be guest at master's tea

Robert A. Mundell, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in economics, will be the guest of a master's tea on Thursday, Oct. 4.

The tea will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The event is free and open to the public.

For over 25 years Mundell has been professor of economics at Columbia University. He taught at Stanford University and the Bologna (Italy) Center of the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University before joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1961. From 1966 to 1971 he was a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

Mundell has lectured widely around the world and has been an adviser to a number of international agencies, including the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the Government of Canada, governments in Latin America and Europe, the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury. Known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas, he is the author of numerous works and articles on economic theory of international economics. He has written extensively on the history of the international monetary system and played a significant role in the founding of the euro.

In 1983 Mundell received the Jacques Rueff Medal and Prize in the French Senate. In 1997 he became a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association. The following year he was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, then in 1999 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science.

Applied developmental science is topic of Bush Center talk

Richard M. Lerner, the Bergstrom Professor in Applied Developmental Science at Tufts University, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Oct. 5.

Titled "Building University-Community Collaborations to Promote Positive Youth Development: The Role of Applied Developmental Science," the talk will be held at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public.

Developmental psychologist Lerner is a leader in the study of public policies and community-based programs aimed at the promotion of positive youth development. He is one of the nation's leading figures in applied developmental science, an interdisciplinary field that integrates socio-cultural, cognitive and biological processes affecting learning and development across the lifespan.

Lerner is the founding editor of the journals Applied Developmental Science and the Journal of Research on Adolescence. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.

In addition to his work in articulating the field of applied developmental science, Lerner has also initiated "outreach scholarship" projects that are grounded in this new science. He is the author or editor of 45 books and more than 300 scholarly articles and chapters.

For information, call (203) 432-9935.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale will proceed with Tercentennial celebration

Peabody's insects inspire fascination in scholars far and near

Talk by philanthropist surgeon to open United Way appeal

Service of Remembrance

J. Lloyd Suttle is appointed deputy provost

Benefit concert to help families of tragedy's fallen

Convocation to celebrate Yale's long tradition of theological education . . .

Grant supports professors' study of dwindling voter turnout

Panelists share experiences on matters of gender

Famed Bolshoi Theatre ballerina describes a life devoted to dance

Forest management certification program is launched

Students win grants for environmental research around the world

Insects are special of the day on Peabody Museum menu

Remembering the struggle

Trumbull Lecture will examine 1828 treatise on liberal education

Employee Day at the Bowl

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