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Reshaping of corporations to be addressed in F&ES talk
John Elter, vice president of systems research and architecture at Plug Power, a fuel cell company, will give a talk on Monday, April 12.
In his lecture, titled "Reshaping Corporations: Adding Value Through Responsible Business Practices," Elter will discuss the LAKES program, an award-winning 7-year, $450 million effort to develop a new platform for photocopiers. His talk will take place at 4 p.m. in the Sage 24 Classroom, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. A reception will follow the presentation.
Sponsored by the Yale Industrial Environmental Management Program (IEM) at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), the talk is free and open to the public.
In his current position at Plug Power, Elter is responsible for defining architectural platforms for all Plug Power fuel cell platforms. He has assisted in the development of products including Xerox's award-winning "zero to landfill" photocopier.
Before joining Plug Power, Elter worked at Eastman Kodak Corporation, where he served as vice president and chief technology officer in the professional division. Prior to Kodak, Elter spent over 30 years at Xerox Corporation where he redesigned the process in which Xerox managed its projects and also developed two major product platforms that have generated over $40 billion in revenue.
The IEM Spring Lecture Series is supported by the Joel Omura Kurihara Fund. Joel Kurihara, F&ES class of 1992, was committed to improving business and environmental relations and the type of dialogue this series seeks to advance.
Hank Higdon, founder and partner of Higdon Barrett LLC, will be the guest at a master's tea on Tuesday, April 13.
Higdon will speak at 5 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
A New York City-based executive search firm, Higdon Barrett focuses exclusively on providing executive search services to asset and wealth management clients, including institutional, mutual fund and high-net worth organizations.
Higdon's experience in the executive recruiting industry spans over 30 years, the first 15 of which were spent with Russell Reynolds Associates. At Russell Reynolds, Higdon spent six years in New York before establishing and building the firm's Houston office. He then moved to Los Angeles to manage the firm's west coast operations that included offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Menlo Park. He served on the firm's five-person executive committee.
In 1986, Hank became chair and one of the founders of Higdon, Joys & Mingle Inc., which evolved into Higdon Group, and then into Higdon Barrett.
A 1963 graduate of Yale College, Higdon has been recognized as one of the top 100 executive search professionals in America in the book "Career Makers" and is also listed in "The Global 200 Executive Recruiters."
Calhoun College and the Department of English will host a master's tea by celebrated poet Charles Simic on Thursday, April 15.
Simic will give a reading of his work at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The reading is open to the public free of charge.
Simic, whose first full-length collection of poems, "What the Grass Says," was published in 1967, was the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems."
Simic has published more than 60 books in the U.S. and abroad, among them "Jackstraws," which was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times; "Walking the Black Cat," which was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry; "A Wedding in Hell" and "Hotel Insomnia."
The author of four books of essays, including "Orphan Factory," Simic has published many translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian and Slovenian poetry. He was also the guest editor of "The Best American Poetry 1992."
Elected a chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000, Simic's many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Miriam Rollin, federal policy director at Fight Crime: Invest in Kids in Washington, D.C., will give the next Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture on Friday, April 16.
"Bringing Law Enforcement Voices Into Policy Debates on Children's Issues" is the title of Rollin's talk, which will begin at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 102, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public.
A graduate of Yale College, Rollin has been an advocate for children, youth and families for more than 20 years. Her experience includes several years of federal policy leadership roles for the National Association of Child Advocates and most recently for the National Network for Youth. Previously, she served in key policy advocacy positions for national education-related groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association.
A practicing lawyer, Rollin has served both as an attorney/guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children, and as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting juvenile, family violence and child abuse cases.
For over 10 years, Rollin has been on the board of the National Association of Counsel for Children. She is a recipient of the Youth Law Center's "Unsung Hero Award."
David Satterthwaite, an expert on the urban environment in developing countries, will visit the campus on Friday, April 16.
Satterthwaite will discuss "What Are the Main Environmental Problems in Low-Income Nations?" at noon in the Marsh Hall rotunda, 360 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Ellen Brennan-Galvin at ellen.brennan-galvin@yale.edu.
A senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development, Satterthwaite is on the teaching staff of the London School of Economics and University College in London.
The editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization and a member of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Taskforce on Slum Dwellers, Satterthwaite has focused his work on poverty reduction in urban areas in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Satterthwaite has advised numerous international agencies, including the World Health Organization, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, European Commission, Danish International Development Agency and UNICEF.
Satterthwaite has written or edited books on various urban issues, including "Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction" with Diana Mitlin, "Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World" with Jorge Hardoy and Diana Mitlin, "The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Cities" and "Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World" with Jorge Hardoy.
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