November 22, 2002|Volume 31, Number 12|Two-Week Issue

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Award-winning writer and AIDS activist to speak at master's tea

Obie award-winning writer and AIDS activist Larry Kramer will speak at a master's tea on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

Kramer will speak at 4 p.m. in the Morse College master's house, 302 York St. The tea is free and open to the public.

A 1957 graduate of Yale College, Kramer is a prolific writer whose best known plays include "The Destiny of Me," which was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize and won an Obie award, and "The Normal Heart," which has had over 600 productions world-wide.

Throughout the 1980s, Kramer was a well-known public advocate of individual, community-based and government responses to the AIDS crisis. In 1981, Kramer co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis, which is still the largest provider of services to those with AIDS. He founded ACT-UP, the international AIDS advocacy and protest organization, in 1987.

In 2001, he agreed to donate his papers and manuscripts, which chronicled the founding of these two groups, to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Kramer is currently working on a novel about the AIDS epidemic titled "The American People."

He was the recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been honored with a Public Service Award from Common Cause.

Marine geochemist to visit as Gordon Grand Fellow

Robert B. Gagosian, director and president of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), will visit the campus as a Gordon Grand Fellow on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

The Gordon Grand Fellowship at Yale will sponsor a master's tea with Gagosian at 4 p.m. in Saybrook College, 90 High St. His talk, titled "Can Global Warming Cause An Ice Age?," is free and open to the public.

Gagosian, who was appointed to his current position in 2001, heads what is considered to be one of the world's leading oceanographic research and education institutions.

Gagosian has had a distinguished career as a marine geochemist. He joined WHOI in 1972 as an assistant scientist, and worked his way up through various academic appointments which included director of research and senior associate director.

His research focused on substances produced by marine organisms and their transport and transformation as they disperse through the ocean to the sea floor. This research led to the discovery of the importance of the atmosphere in this process.

The author or co-author of 85 scientific papers, Gagosian has also served on visiting committees and research panels for the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and national and international universities and research organizations.

The Gordon Grand Fellowship at Yale promotes dialogue and understanding between today's business leaders and students at Yale. The fellowship was established in 1973 to honor Gordon Grand, a graduate of the Yale College Class of 1938, and president and chief executive officer of the Olin Corporation. During his lifetime, Grand endeavored to bridge the gap between business and academia by actively promoting the exchange of ideas and viewpoints between these sectors. Today, the Gordon Grand Fellowship continues this tradition by inviting prominent business leaders to Yale for one- to three-day visits.

Home visitation programs to be explored in lecture

On Friday, Dec. 6, John Eckenrode, professor and chair in the department of human development and co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell University, will deliver the next lecture in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy Lecture series.

"Investing in Young Mothers and Their Children: Do Home Visitations Yield Long-Term Benefits?" is the topic of Eckenrode's talk at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.

Eckenrode's research focuses on child abuse and neglect, the effects of preventive interventions and stress, and coping processes. Using grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Mental Health and the Smith-Richardson Foundation, he has done extensive research on home visitation programs.

He is the principal investigator for the National Archive for Data on Child Abuse and Neglect, which is funded by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Eckenrode has authored numerous journal articles and chapters and has edited three books. In 1995, he received the Robert Chin Memorial Award for the best paper written that year on child abuse and neglect.

In 1997, he and his collaborators on the Prenatal/Early Infancy Project received the annual research award from the National Institute for Health Care Management in the maternal and child health care category.

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