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National science policy topic of final Bouchet lecture
Homer Neal Sr., the director of the UM-ATLAS Collaboratory Project, the Samuel A. Goudsmit Professor of Physics, and president emeritus and vice president emeritus for research at the University of Michigan, will deliver the final Edward A. Bouchet Sesquicentennial Lecture on Monday, Sept. 15.
Neal will speak on "National Science Policy in a New Era" at 4 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street. Sponsored by the Saybrook College Mott-Atkins Fund, the lecture is free and the public is invited to attend.
Neal focuses his research on experimental high energy physics. He is currently conducting research at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, where his research group is part of the ATLAS Experiment.
In the ATLAS experiment, Neal is involved in developing the computing infrastructure required to carry out the planned physics analysis. This includes work on the high-speed networking between CERN and the United States, quality of service protocols and the development of collaborative tools.
Neal also participates in the DZERO collaboration. His current research includes the development of the database for the calibration of various subsystem detectors.
This is the final event in a year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the University's noted alumnus Edward Bouchet - the first African-American student to graduate from Yale College and the first African-American in the United States to earn a Ph.D. Bouchet was a member of the Yale College Class of 1874. He went on the earn his doctorate in physics from Yale in 1876.
On Friday, Sept. 19, Roger G. Kennedy, former director of the U.S. National Park Service and director emeritus of the National Museum of American History, will deliver the twelfth annual Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture in American Art.
Titled "Classicism in America, from the Hopewell Geomancers through Latrobe and Ramee to Louis Sullivan: The Impulse and the Results," Kennedy's lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St.
Sponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery, the lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of a symposium "Classical Furniture in America, 1800-1840," which is being held in conjunction with the gallery's exhibition "Curule: Ancient Design in American Federal Furniture." For more information about the symposium or to register for Saturday's symposium events, contact Katherine Chabla at (203) 432-0632 or katherine.chabla@yale.edu.
A Yale College alumnus, Kennedy served as the director of the U.S. National Park Service from 1993 to 1997. Prior to that, he spent 13 years as the director of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.
A television producer and presenter, Kennedy had his own television series on the Discovery Channel. He also had his own radio program on NBC, for which he covered the White House.
The author of more than two dozen books on American history and historical figures, Kennedy has lectured extensively across the country.
Kimberly Morgan, assistant professor of political science at George Washington University, will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Sept. 19.
Her talk, titled "The Origins of American Child Care Policy," will be held at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 104, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
Morgan was previously a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale. Her research and teaching interests include child care and parental leave, health policy and the politics of the welfare state.
Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and Society, Social Politics, and the Journal of Policy History.
Currently, Morgan is writing a book on the politics of child care policy in advanced industrialized states.
Harriet McBryde Johnson, attorney-at-law and disability rights activist, will visit the campus on Wednesday, Sept. 22.
Johnson will speak to the Disability and Bioethics working research group on the topic of "Disability Identity, Disability Rights and Quality of Life" at noon in the auditorium of the Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
In her lecture, Johnson will explore the relationship between identity, rights and quality of life. She will explain the disability rights movement perspective, which is that "disability is a natural part of life's continuum, bound up with personal identity."
For more than 25 years, Johnson has been active in social justice causes, in particular, disability rights activism. Her current affiliations include the National Lawyers' Guild Disability Rights Committee, Not Dead Yet and Protection & Advocacy for People with Disabilities, among others.
A nationally known advocate and activist, she is perhaps best known as the author of a New York Times Magazine story "Unspeakable Conversations, or, How I Spent One Day as a Token Cripple at Princeton University." In it, she describes her encounters with Peter Singer, the bioethics philosopher who proposes that parents be allowed to have disabled babies killed.
Johnson has practiced law in South Carolina since 1985. Her solo practice focuses on benefits and civil rights claims for poor and working people with disabilities.
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