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Champion wrestler to be featured at master's tea
Shawn Michaels, the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champion, will be the guest at a master's tea on Friday, Jan. 17.
Michaels will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College's master's house, 434 College St. The tea is free and open to the public.
Dubbed the "Heartbreak Kid," Shawn Michaels was the first wrestler to appear in Playgirl magazine.
Michaels participated in the WWE's "Match of the Year" every year from 1993 to 1998 and was the first wrestler to become a WWE "Grand Slam Champion" by winning the WWE, Intercontinental, European and Tag Team Championships.
Michael Franti, world-renowned 'hip hop' and spoken word artist and leader of the band Spearhead, will deliver the Annual Arnold J. Alderman Memorial Lecture on Sunday, Jan. 19.
Franti's lecture, which will focus on environmental and social justice, will take place at 2 p.m. in the Peabody Museum's auditorium, 170 Whitney Ave. The Alderman lecture is also the keynote address for the Peabody Museum's two-day free festival "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice." (See related story.)
Franti and his band Spearhead released their debut album "Home" in 1994 to critical acclaim for its unique ability to blend rap, reggae and soul with topics of social and political consciousness. Together with his band, Franti explores themes such as AIDS, homelessness, hate crimes, drug addiction and suicide.
Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver two lectures on campus on Wednesday, Jan. 22.
Fukuyama will speak on the topic of "Regulatory Challenges in Future Biotechnology" at a Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar at noon, followed by a lecture titled "Post-Human Future" at 4 p.m. Both lectures will take place in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., and are free and open to the public. Lunch will be served at the noon lecture and refreshments will be served at the 4 p.m. talk. For information and reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Fukuyama has published four books, including "The End of History and the Last Man," published by Free Press in 1992, which has appeared in over 20 foreign editions. It was awarded the Los Angeles Times' Book Critics Award in the Current Interest Category.
His current research explores the role of culture and social capital in modern economic life and on the social consequences of the transition into an information economy.
Fukuyama is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, the American Political Science Association and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Flora Fraser, biographer and trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London, will deliver the opening lecture for the exhibition "Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London," on Wednesday, Jan. 22. (See related story.)
Fraser's lecture, titled "In Pursuit of Regency Romance: Emma Hamilton, Nelson, Byron and Queen Caroline," will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The talk will be accompanied by an extensive slide show to illustrate the variety of characters and personalities from the Regency period. The lecture is designed to not only provide a context in which to view the exhibition but also to explain why, as a biographer, Fraser is drawn to the characters of the era.
Fraser has been a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London, since 1992 and has served as vice-chair of the board since 2001.
Nina B. Huntemann, a doctoral candidate in communications at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will be the guest at a master's tea on Thursday, Jan. 23.
Huntemann will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College's master's house, 434 College St. The tea is free and open to the public.
Huntemann, whose research in communications explores the topic of video games as a cultural artifact, has produced an educational documentary "Game Over: Gender Race and Violence in Video Games."
In addition to her academic research, she is self-employed as an information technology consultant, assisting clients and small businesses in the development of websites and databases.
She has received numerous academic awards and has spoken at several conferences and colleges on the topics of gender and violence in video games.
Phil Sparks, vice president, co-founder and director of family policy at the Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) in Washington, D.C., will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, January 24.
"What the Public Thinks About Early Care and Education" is the topic of his talk, which will be held 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. in Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Avenue. The event is open to the public free of charge. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
The CCMC, a 13-year old public interest media organization, provides strategic media advice and technical assistance to non-profit organizations. The CCMC assists in the design and implementation of public education campaigns to facilitate policy change by building public cooperation.
One CCMC initiative is The Early Care and Education Collaborative, a multi-year project of six state-based child advocacy organizations and five national organizations working on child care issues. The purpose of the project is to expand early care and education resources in each of the target states. In addition to coordinating the project, the role of the CCMC in the project is to generate media attention, offer technical assistance and then share the information learned with the broader child care community.
Sparks has worked with numerous policy organizations on such family issues as early care and education, long-term health care, family and medical leave, and learning disabilities.
The next talk in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy's lecture series will feature Trey Billings, an evaluation specialist, and Dee Speece-Lineham, a supervisor, in the Social Development Department of the New Haven Public Schools on Friday, Jan. 31.
Their talk, titled "Trying to be All Things to All Kids: Universal Prevention Efforts and University Collaboration in the New Haven Public Schools," will be held at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
The New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Social Development Department was the nation's first central office department dedicated to universal prevention and children's social and emotional health.
As the lead evaluator in the NHPS, Billings oversees several federal grants totaling over 12 million dollars. He functions as the liaison between the NHPS and the Yale Child Study Center, coordinating the school-based evaluation of two large-scale, randomized research trials of prevention curricula and activities. His responsibilities also include the district's Social and Health Assessment, a survey of risk and protective factors which is given biennially to all 6th, 8th and 10th grade students in the New Haven Public Schools.
Speece-Linehan supervises a staff in implementing the K-12 social and emotional learning curriculum in the NHPS. She also serves as the liaison between the Board of Education and community-based organizations. In her role as liaison, she works on behalf of students, families and educators in the prevention of mental and physical health issues.
Julie Greenstein, president and chief executive officer of Immerge Biotherapeutics, will speak in a seminar on Monday,
Jan. 27.
Greenstein's lecture, titled "Xenotransplantation: The Challenges and the Future," is part of the Yale Interdepartmental Program in Vascular Biology and Transplantation Endowed Seminar Series. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be given 45 p.m. in the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine Seminar Room 206, 295 Congress Ave. A brief reception will be held prior to the lecture at 3:45 p.m.
Immerge BioTherapeutic's research efforts focus on developing therapeutic applications for xenotransplantation. Greenstein, whose research investigates the safety issues of xenotransplantation, concentrates on developing strategies to prevent the transmission of microbiological organisms during xenotransplantation.
Yale's Interdepartmental Program in Vascular Biology and Transplantation was created in 2000 to effectively translate Yale-based research advances into the clinical transplant arena.
Anne Fadiman, editor of The American Scholar, will speak at a master's tea on Monday, Jan. 27.
Fadiman will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The tea is free and open to the public.
A recipient of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence and Feature Writing, The American Scholar is a literary magazine that has been in publication since 1932 by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Fadiman is the author of two books. Her first, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures," won numerous awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction and the Salon Book Award for nonfiction.
Her second book, "Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader," is a collection of essays originally published in the Library of Congress' Civilization magazine, where Fadiman served as one of the founding editors.
Her essays and articles have appeared in many publications. While a staff writer at Life, she won a National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article on suicide among the elderly.
Fadiman is currently editing "Best American Essays 2003."
Paul Slovic, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, will speak in the Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum on Wednesday, Jan. 29.
Slovic will discuss "Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts About Affect, Reason, Risk and Rationality" at a noon lecture at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. He will also speak on the same topic at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St. Both lectures are free and open to the public. For information or luncheon reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Slovic, who is also the president of Decision Research, studies human judgement and decision-making, particularly, the effect that risk has on the decision-making process. He believes that "whoever controls the definition of risk controls the rational solution to the problem at hand."
Slovic has received numerous awards for his research, including the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Society for Risk in Analysis in 1991 and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 1993.
Mary Gordon, best-selling author and the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College, will visit the campus on Wednesday, Jan. 29.
Gordon will read from her novels at 5 p.m. in Rm. 211 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The event is free and open to the public.
The author of six novels, three novellas, a book of short stories, an anthology of essays and a memoir, Gordon has been hailed as "one of the most gifted writers of her generation."
The New York Times Book Review wrote that her 1996 memoir, "The Shadow Man," is "passionate and extravagant. ... The reader ... must testify to the dominance of such absolute literary power."
A faculty member at Barnard College since 1988, Gordon is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an O. Henry Prize. She has contributed articles to many periodicals and is the author of introduction for six books.
T H I S
'Hip hop' artist to present keynote address at Peabody
Political economist to speak
in bioethics forum
'Regency Period' is topic of
Yale Center for British Art talk
Scholar to present master's tea on topic of video games
Family policy expert will discuss 'early care and education'
Social policy talk will focus on New Haven Public Schools
Xenotransplantation to be explored in seminar series
Award-winning author and
editor will speak at master's tea
ISPS forum will examine
risk assessment
Award-winning author will read from her novels
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