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Child psychologist to examine parenting and achievement
Sylvia Rimm, a nationally recognized child psychologist, will present two talks on parenting and achievement on Monday, March 29.
Rimm will discuss "Raising Kids in the 21st Century: How to Raise a Happy and Achieving Child" from noon-1 p.m. in the Beaumont Rm., Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. Later that day, Rimm will speak on "Gender Issues in Achievement" from 4-5:30 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Rimm's books will available for sale at both events. Twenty percent of the proceeds will support scholarship funds for children attending the Yale-affiliated child-care programs. Seating is limited for both events. To register, call (203) 432-5660 or visit the website www.yale.edu/learningcenter. Rimm's visit is sponsored by Yale WorkLife Program, Women Faculty Forum, Office for Women in Medicine and McDougal Graduate Student Center.
A child psychologist who directs the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Rimm is the author of "Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades -- And What You Can Do About It," "See Jane Win" and the companion volume, "How Jane Won: 55 Successful Women Share How They Grew from Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women."
"The Rimm Report on How 1000 Girls Became Successful Women," a New York Times best-seller, was featured on the Oprah Winfrey and Today shows and in People magazine.
In addition, Rimm writes a syndicated newspaper column on parenting, and is a regular contributor to Redbook and Nick Jr. magazines.
Roger Payne, who with colleague Scott McVay discovered that humpback whales sing songs, will speak on campus on Tuesday, March 30.
Payne will discuss "Protecting Whales Via the Media: A Parable Containing Lots of Despair and a Smattering of Joy" at noon in the seminar room, 230 Prospect St. The talk is sponsored by the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. For more information, contact Colleen Murphy-Dunning at (203) 432-6570.
Payne, president of Ocean Alliance, has studied the behavior of whales since 1967. In addition to his discovery about humpback whales, he theorized correctly that the sounds of fin and blue whales are heard across oceans. He has led over 100 expeditions to all oceans and studied every species of large whale in the wild.
Payne pioneered many of the benign research techniques now used throughout the world to study free-swimming whales, and has trained many of the current leaders in whale research in America and abroad. He directs long-term research projects on the songs of humpback whales, and on the behavior of 1,700 individually known Argentine right whales -- the longest such continuous study.
His publications include the book "Among Whales," and three recordings: "Songs of the Humpback Whale," which is still the best-selling natural history recording, "Deep Voices" and "Whales Alive," compositions composed by whales but arranged and played by musician Paul Winter. In addition, Payne was co-writer and co-director of the IMAX film "Whales," which was based on his research.
Dr. R. Palmer Beasley, dean of the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center School of Public Health and the Ashbel Smith Professor at The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, will present the 13th annual Dorothy M. Horstmann Lecture on Wednesday, March 31.
Titled "Towards the Eradication of Hepatitis B," the lecture will take place at noon in Fitkin Amphitheatre, 15 York St. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is being presented as part of the Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds series and is co-sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine.
During his 30-year career as an epidemiologist, Beasley has worked on a variety of epidemiological problems, including HIV/AIDS, plague, rubella, rheumatoid arthritis and Waardenberg syndrome.
An adviser on hepatitis control to the World Health Organization (WHO), Beasley was a co-founder of the International Task Force on Hepatitis B Immunization. He wrote the WHO policy guidelines on the hepatitis B virus (HBV) immunization.
Beasley's research has led to the understanding of the routes, mechanisms and timing of the transmission of HBV, and his work has included numerous large-scale, long-term prospective studies.
The first woman appointed as a professor at the School of Medicine, Dr. Dorothy Horstmann (1911-2001) was a researcher who made significant contributions to science, education and public health, particularly regarding polio myelitis and rubella.
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) will host a visit by Dr. Paul Farmer, a founding director of Partners in Health, an international health organization for the poor, on Wednesday, March 31.
Farmer's talk, titled "Pathologies of Power: Rethinking Health and Human Rights in the Global Era," will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium,
333 Cedar St. Sponsored by the YSN's Diversity Action Committee, the lecture is free and open to the public.
A medical anthropologist and physician who has dedicated his life to treating some of the world's poorest populations, Farmer founded Partners in Health in 1987. The organization provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and impoverished.
Farmer, a world-renowned authority on tuberculosis (TB) treatment and control, has worked in infectious-disease control for nearly two decades. He pioneered the treatment of both multi-drug resistant TB and HIV in Haiti, and also participated in evaluating TB programs in Russia, Peru, Azerbaijan, Latvia and Kazakhstan.
Farmer is an attending physician in infectious diseases and chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He also is medical director of the Clinique Bon Saveur, a hospital in rural Haiti.
Farmer began his lifelong commitment to Haiti while still a student in 1983. He worked with villages in Haiti's Central Plateau, where he later helped establish Creole for Partners in Health (Zanmi Lasante). The initial one-building clinic has grown to a multi-service health complex.
Douglas Daft, chair and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company, will give the 11th Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Wednesday, March 31.
His talk, titled "Real Business and Adam Smith's Other Idea," will begin at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow. The lecture is sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Law School and the School of Management.
Daft was elected chair of the board of directors and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company in 2000. The 11th chair of the board in the history of the company, Daft began his career with the corporation in 1969 as planning officer in the Sydney, Australia office. He has held positions of increasing responsibilities throughout Asia and in 1982 was named vice president of Coca-Cola Far East Ltd. In 1999, he was elected president and chief operating officer of The Coca-Cola Company.
The Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale was established in 1992 to support endeavors among specialists in the intersection between international relations, international law, and the management of international enterprises and organizations.
James Carson, associate professor of history at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, will speak on campus on Thursday, April 1.
"Indian Removal, Historiographical Memory, and the Origins of the Old South" is the title of his talk, which will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The talk, sponsored by the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Carson, an expert on the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans, will discuss the Indian removals of the 1830s as acts of ethnic cleansing and how the success of the removals, from the federal and state governments' points of view, fundamentally altered the way historians have written and still write about the Old South.
Carson is the author of "Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal," an ethno-history of cultural persistence among the Mississippi Choctaws from 900 AD to their removal from Mississippi in 1830-1833, and the forthcoming "Old Worlds Into New: Landscape and Cosmology in the Colonial South."
Manfred Bietak, professor of Egyptology and chair of the Department of Egyptology at the University of Vienna, Austria, will deliver The Woodward Lecture on Thursday, April 1.
Bietak will discuss "A Tuthmoside Palace District in Avaris: Recent Excavations at Tell el-Dab'a," at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and is free and open to the public.
Since 1966, Bietak has directed the excavations at Avaris, located in the eastern Nile Delta. His work has revealed the complex history of the site, best known as the capital of the Hyksos. His most recent discoveries include the citadel of the pharaoh Ahmose, who expelled the Hyksos from Egypt and founded the 18th dynasty of the New Kingdom.
Previously, Bietak participated in the UNESCO Salvage Campaign of the Nubian monuments which were threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. He directed the Austrian Archaeological Institutes project at Sayala, which comprised material from the C-group and Pan-grave cultures of ancient Nubia.
In 1999, Bietak founded the Synchronization of the Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium, an international project funded by the Austrian Academy of the Austrian Science Fund. This 10-year project seeks to study, from interdisciplinary perspectives, the historical and chronological problems of this period in human history.
Bietak has published widely in all areas of Egyptology and has served as long-term editor of the scholarly journal Agypten und Levant.
Elizabeth Shogren, the Washington-bureau environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and Eric Pianin, who covers Bush administration environmental policy and land-use issues for the Washington Post, will give a lecture on Thursday, April 1.
Shogren and Pianin will discuss "Perspectives from the Media" at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies,
205 Prospect St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of a series on "Politics and the Environment in the 2004 Election Cycle." For more information, contact Heather Kaplan at (203) 776-5363 or heather.kaplan@yale.edu.
Shogren's previous national beats include the White House, Congress, social policy and presidential campaigns. Before joining the Washington bureau in 1993, she covered the breakup of the Soviet Union for the Los Angeles Times from its Moscow bureau. Prior to that she was a freelance reporter based in Moscow and covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution in Prague in 1989.
Pianin has had a broad range of experience at the Washington Post as a reporter and editor. As a reporter on the metropolitan staff, he wrote extensively about the District of Columbia's government and politics. After moving to the national staff, he covered Congress throughout the Clinton administration, with primary responsibility for budget and economic issues. He served briefly as the paper's homeland security reporter following 9/11, and he was a member of the Post team that investigated the Columbia space shuttle disaster last year.
Pam Langer, state systems leader of the Parents as Teachers National Center and the United Way of Connecticut, will deliver the next Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture on Friday, April 2.
Langer will examine "The Importance of Universal Access to Parenting Education" at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 102 of the Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
Langer is the director of early childhood initiatives at the federally-funded Connecticut Parents Plus program, which is the state's Parent Information and Resource Center. In this position, she works with the team that is writing the Connecticut infant and toddler care guidelines and with the parent education component of the Connecticut Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems project. In her role as state systems leader for Connecticut, she trains Parents as Teachers (PAT) educators and provides technical assistance to PAT programs.
Langer began her work with PAT almost 20 years ago in the first PAT program outside of the parent state of Missouri. She also serves as a council member of the National Parenting Educators Network, on the steering committee of Connecticut's National Parenting Educators Network, and on the Early Care and Education Alliance.
T H I S
Expert on whales to discuss their protection
Horstmann Lecture will focus on disease control
Health care for the poor to be addressed in YSN lecture
Coca-Cola Company executive to speak in YCIAS event
Lamar Center talk will explore Native Americans and the South
Woodward lecture will focus on Avaris excavations
The 2004 election and the media subject of F&ES lecture
Parenting education is topic of social policy talk
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