December 6, 2002|Volume 31, Number 13

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Master's tea will feature sports agent David Falk

David Falk, former CEO and chair of SFX Sports Group, will visit the campus and deliver a master's tea on Monday, Dec. 9.

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

Falk, who stepped down from the position in 2001, founded SFX Sports Group, a global talent management and marketing agency. He is considered to be one of the most powerful sports agents in the business. The company's client list includes several hundred of the world's elite professional athletes in a wide variety of sports.

Falk began his career as a sports attorney at the firm of Donald Dell after he graduated from law school in 1975, and eventually became president of the company. In 1992, he left the firm and started his own sport-management company that was later bought out by SFX Entertainment. SFX Sports Group was sold to Clear Channel Communications in 2000.

Mayor John DeStefano will present Dean's Lecture

John DeStefano, mayor of the City of New Haven, will deliver the Law School Dean's Lecture on Tuesday, Dec. 10.

DeStefano will speak on "Creating Competitive Cities" at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St.

He is currently serving his fifth term as mayor. Since DeStefano was first elected in 1994, the City of New Haven has been honored with a 1998 All American City award and was named an Empowerment Zone in 1999. The crime rate in New Haven is down 50%, public housing has turned from one of the lowest performers nationally to one of the highest, and the city is acknowledged as the arts capital of Connecticut.

DeStefano serves on and appoints the New Haven Board of Education. The New Haven School district magnet school program and "accountability initiative" have earned national acclaim, and New Haven has been awarded $1.3 billion for a school construction program--the largest in the United States on a per capita basis.

This month, DeStefano will become president of the National League of Cities (NLC), which represents some 18,000 American cities and towns. He is the past president of the Connecticut Conference on Municipalities.

Biotechnology and hunger prevention to be focus of lecture

Gary H. Toenniessen, director of food security for The Rockefeller Foundation, will deliver a lecture on Thursday, Dec. 12, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics Project's working research group exploring "Genetically Modified Plants."

Toenniessen's talk, titled "Agricultural Biotechnology and Hunger in Africa: Challenges and Concerns," will take place 45:30 p.m. at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For further information contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

Toenniessen is the author of a recent book, titled "Securing the Harvest: Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops." He joined the Rockefeller Foundation as program officer with responsibility for developing funding programs that would help address environmental problems associated with agricultural development. From 1985 to 2000, he worked on the foundation's International Program on Rice Biotechnology, which was designed to bring the benefits of biotechnology to poor rice producers and consumers in developing countries.

In his current position, he is leading the foundation's effort to improve food security in Africa.

Forum at ISPS will examine risks to health of populations

Daniel Krewski, professor of epidemiology and director of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health at the University of Ottawa, will deliver the next lecture in the Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum on Wednesday, Dec. 11.

"Population Health Risk Assessment" is the topic of his talk, which will take place at noon in the lower level conference room at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public. For further information contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

Since 1994 Krewski has also held the position of adjunct research professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University.

Krewski has contributed to more than 400 publications on the topics of epidemiology, biostatistics and population health risk assessment.

He currently chairs the U.S. National Academy of Science's Committee on Acute Exposure Guidance Levels for Highly Hazardous Substances. He previously served as the director of risk management at Health Canada.

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