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May 2, 2003|Volume 31, Number 28



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Actor Bronson Pinchot to visit the campus

Well-known actor and Yale College alumnus Bronson Pinchot will visit the campus on Saturday, May 3.

Pinchot will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Silliman College master's house, 505 College St. A screening of Pinchot's new movie, "Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control," will follow the talk at 7 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Both the talk and the film screening are free and open to the public.

A 1981 graduate of Yale College, Pinchot made his feature film debut in the 1983 box office hit "Risky Business."

His breakthrough role came in 1984 when he played the art gallery assistant Serge in "Beverly Hills Cop." It was his success in that role that gave him the opportunity to star as Balki Bartokomous in the 1980s hit comedy television series "Perfect Strangers."

"Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control," Pinchot's latest movie, debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2002. In the movie he portrays a lounge musician who believes that his mind and body have been taken over by creatures from a parallel universe and that he and his band mate are able to read the minds of their audiences.

Pinchot has also written, co-produced and co-starred in a new made-for-television pilot, "Straight No Chaser." He stars as Josh Peters, a financially strapped divorcee who inherits his uncle's gay bar.

Pinchot has appeared in numerous other movies, including "True Romance," "The First Wives Club" and "She's Having a Baby."


Robots and virtual worlds to be examined in bioethics talk

Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor in the Program of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak to the Ethics and Technology Working Research Group on Wednesday, May 7.

Titled "Simulation and Its Discontents: 'Robots, Virtual Worlds and the Evolution of Social Sensibilities,'" her talk will begin at 4:15 p.m. at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. For more information and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

In addition to her academic post, Turkle is the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on Technology and Self.

Turkle is currently working on a National Science Foundation-funded study of "Virtuality and Its Discontents," which examines the impact of using screens and simulation techniques on a wide range of professions, including architecture and medicine.

Turkle has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture and on the subjective side of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She is the author of several books, including "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet," in which she explores the psychology of computer-mediated communication.

Among the numerous awards and fellowships Turkle has received for her work are her inclusion in Time magazine's "Innovators of the Internet" in 2000 and being named one of the "Top Ten Wired Women" by ABCNews.com in 2002.


Acclaimed British author will read from his work

British author Graham Swift will visit the campus on Wednesday, May 7.

Swift will give a reading from his latest novel, titled "The Light of Day," at 4 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. The reading is free and the public is invited to attend.

Considered to be one of Britain's leading writers, Swift is the author of seven novels, including "Shuttlecock," "Waterland," "The Last Orders" and "Ever After." He is the recipient of both the Booker Prize, which he won in 1996 for "Last Orders," and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, which he won in 1992 for his novel "Ever After."

Swift's latest novel, "The Light of Day," published seven years after he won the Booker Prize, is the story of a middle-class murder. The main character, an ex-police officer turned private investigator, regularly visits a former client jailed for murdering her husband. The novel takes place over the course of a single day, with flashbacks providing the details of the story.

An article about Swift in Contemporary Authors describes him as "a master storyteller and an inquisitive, ceaselessly analytical artist -- one whose works embrace both the dramatic and the enigmatic."

Swift, who was a teacher before becoming a novelist, has published a short-story collection titled "Learning to Swim" and also co-edited an anthology about fishing titled "The Magic Reel."


Pediatrician to deliver Horstmann Lecture

Dr. Ann Arvin, the Lucile Salter Packard Professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and associate dean of research at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will present the 12th Annual Dorothy M. Horstmann lecture on Wednesday, May 7.

"Varicella-zoster Virus: Biology and Clinical Management" is the topic of the noon lecture. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Fitkin Amphitheatre of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. Part of Pediatric Grand Rounds, the lecture is co-sponsored by the Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Public Health.

Arvin was appointed to the position of associate dean of research at Stanford in 2001 and also serves as the director of the Stanford-LPCH Vaccine Program.

Her research focuses on childhood viral diseases caused by the varicella zoster virus, and the prevention of these diseases using vaccines.

Arvin has received numerous awards and honors for her work and has authored or co-authored over 100 journal articles.

This endowed lecture honors Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann, the late John Rodman Paul Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics. Dr. Horstmann (1911-2001) was the first woman appointed as a professor at the School of Medicine. She was a researcher who made significant contributions to science, education and public health, particularly regarding polio and rubella.


Rescheduled lecture to focus on agrobiotechnology

Charles Benbrook of Benbrook Consulting Services will speak to the Genetically-Modified Plant Working Research Group on Thursday, May 8.

His talk was originally scheduled to take place on April 8.

Benbrook will speak on the topic of "Agrobiotechnology and Impact on Environment," 3-5 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. The Working Research Group is part of the Bioethics Program. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Benbrook founded his consulting firm in 1990 and in 1998 he developed Ag BioTech InfoNet, which is one of the Internet's most extensive independent sources of technical, policy and economic information on biotechnology.


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Emerging global leaders chosen as Yale World Fellows

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Library acquires archive of 'storyteller with a camera'

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UNIVERSITY TEACH-INS

Event will showcase research by medical school students

Art gallery appoints former MoMA administrator . . .

Yale sophomore is lauded for her global leadership

Memorial Services

Participants needed for CENTURY smoking cessation study

Peruvian archaeologists speak at Yale symposium on the Inca

Political science academy honors Yale professor and student


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