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Former mayor of Detroit to speak in SOM Leaders Forum
Dennis W. Archer, president-elect of the American Bar Association and former mayor of Detroit, will speak at the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
Archer's talk will take place 11:45 a.m.-
12:50 p.m. in Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
Archer ended an eight-year term as mayor of Detroit in 2001. In that post, he earned national and international respect for his success in changing Detroit's image and direction. He returned to Dickinson Wright, a Detroit-based law firm, in 2002.
After earning his law degree in 1970, Archer worked as a trial lawyer for several Detroit law firms, including Dickinson Wright. He served as an associate professor at the Detroit College of Law and as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School. In 1985, he was appointed associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Archer is a member of the board of governors of the American Bar Association and is currently unopposed in his bid to become president of the American Bar Association.
In the past he has served as president
of the Wolverine Bar Association, the National Bar Association and the State Bar of Michigan.
Archer has received numerous honors and awards recognizing him for his leadership abilities as mayor and also for his skills as a lawyer.
Roland Betts, a Yale alumnus, trustee and chair and founder of Chelsea Piers, L.P., will be the featured speaker at the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Betts' talk will take place 11:45 a.m.-
12:50 p.m. in Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
Betts is a trustee on the Yale Corporation, serving as an alumni fellow and also on the Yale Alumni Fund's Special Gifts Committee. He recently donated $5 million to the University to renovate the former Davies Mansion, which will accommodate the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the World Fellows Program. The Davies Mansion has been renamed the Betts House in his honor.
Betts helped oversee the development of the second most visited attraction in New York City, the Chelsea Piers Sport and Entertainment Complex, a 30-acre waterfront development.
Betts is also the founder and president of Silver Screen Management, Inc., which financed such classics as "Beauty and the Beast," "Pretty Woman" and "The Little Mermaid."
He has recently been named a director of the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation to rebuild the World Trade Center site. He is a member of the United States Olympic Committee and a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Betts was formerly the lead owner of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club. He was also a former teacher and assistant principal in the public school system.
Michael Dourson, director of Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA), will deliver the next lecture in the Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum on Wednesday, Oct. 30.
"Using Human Data to Protect the Public's Interest" is the topic of his talk, which will take place at noon in the lower level conference room at ISPS, 77 Prospect St.
Dourson founded and now directs TERA, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the best use of toxicity data for estimating risk assessment values. TERA focuses on protecting human health by developing partnerships with government, industry and others to address risk assessments of high visibility.
His research focuses on the value of using human data in the assessment and management of risk.
Dourson is a diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology and served on its board as president, vice president and treasurer.
He has published more than 50 papers on risk assessment methods, co-authored over 100 government risk assessment documents and has lectured extensively on the subject of risk assessment.
For 15 years Dourson held leadership roles in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as chair of EPA's Reference Dose World Group, a charter member of the EPA's Risk Assessment Forum and chief of the group that helped create the Integrated Risk Information System in 1986. Dourson was awarded four EPA bronze medals during his tenure.
Celia B. Fisher, professor of applied developmental psychology and director of the Center for Ethics in Education at Fordham University, will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 1.
Her talk, titled "Ethics for Mental Health Science Involving Ethnic Minority Children and Youth," will be held in Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
Fisher is currently chair of the American Psychological Association's Ethics Code Revisions Task Force and a member of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Data Safety and Monitoring Board.
Fisher served for 15 years as the founding director of Fordham University's doctoral training specialty in applied developmental psychology and is a founding editor of the journal Applied Developmental Science.
She has written commissioned papers on ethics for the National Bioethics Advisory Committee and the NIMH, and has authored over 70 scholarly chapters.
With support from the National Science Foundation, Fisher has completed and disseminated to over 80 universities an instructor's manual and student workbook for integrating research ethics into the introductory psychology curriculum. Through support from the National Institutes of Health, Fisher has conducted workshops for scientists and institutional review boards on research ethics at Fordham University and across the country.
Fisher's current research programs include how teenagers and parents from different racial/ethnic backgrounds prepare for and react to racial discrimination, the ability of children and adults with cognitive vulnerabilities to consent to research and treatment, the validity of child abuse assessment techniques and community perspectives on socially sensitive research.
Iain Bain, a printer, publisher and authority on Thomas Bewick, will deliver a lecture on "Thomas Bewick (1753-1828): Artist, Naturalist and Revolutionary Wood Engraver" on Wednesday, Oct. 30.
His talk will take place at 5:15 p.m. in the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-2800 or visit the website at www.yale.edu/ycba.
Bain's talk is being presented in conjunction with the exhibitions "Romantic Watercolor: The Hickman Bacon Collection" and "Romantic Print: The Chiaroscuro of Nature."
Bain spent 22 years as head of publications at the Tate Gallery in London. He is a practical printer on both hand letterpress and rolling press. He is involved in the printing and publishing of new issues from the original blocks and plates of William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough and Thomas Bewick, among others. His current project is working on the correspondence of Thomas Bewick.
He is the author of "The Workshop of Thomas Bewick" and "The Watercolors and Drawings of Thomas Bewick." He has published numerous journal articles and is the editor of the autobiographical "Memoirs of Thomas Bewick."
Bain is vice president of the Printing Historical Society and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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