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Peabody event will give inside look at lives of animals
Video naturalist Sam Easterson will show slides and videos of the lives of animals and plants, taken from cameras attached to about 50 different living organisms, on Saturday, Nov. 20.
Easterson's presentation, titled "Wild Reality TV," will begin at noon in the third floor auditorium of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. The event is free with museum admission. Admission to the museum is $7; $6 for seniors (65+); $5 for children; and is free with a valid Yale I.D. For more information, call (203) 432-5050 or visit the website at www.peabody.yale.edu.
Featured recently on the "Late Show with David Letterman," Minneapolis-based artist Easterson records the world from the perspective of animals and plants. In order to increase the public's awareness of animals and plants in their native habitats as well as to glean a new perspective on these creature's daily lives, Easterson straps tiny helmet-mounted video cameras onto everything from buffaloes to tarantulas.
Over the last 10 years, Easterson's work has garnered international attention, and he was recently featured in the National Audubon Society's monthly publication. He has also been the subject of programs on CNN, the Sundance Channel and on National Public Radio.
Easterson's work has been showcased at numerous art museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
Easterson's company, Animal Vegetable Video, has produced work that has been presented at numerous science centers, natural history museums and interpretive centers.
Award-winning novelist Thane Rosenbaum will take part in a panel discussion on campus on Monday, Nov. 29.
"The Myth of Moral Justice: A Conversation with Thane Rosenbaum," is the title of the event, which will take place 4:30-6:30 p.m. in Rm. 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The Reverend Jerry Streets and Law School professor Anthony Kronman are the commentators, and Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh will moderate. Sponsored by the Law School's Dean's Office, the talk is free and open to the
public.
Rosenbaum, who teaches courses in human rights, legal humanities, and law and literature at Fordham Law School, is the author of the novels "The Golems of Gotham," which was a San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 Book in 2002, and "Second Hand Smoke," which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in 1999. His novel-in-stories, "Elijah Visible," received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 1996 for the best book of Jewish-American fiction.
Rosenbaum's articles, reviews and essays appear frequently in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, among other national publications.
His most recent book, a work of nonfiction, is titled "The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right."
Celebrated poet Rita Dove will visit the campus on Tuesday Nov. 30.
Dove will give a reading at 4 p.m. at Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets, followed by a reception at the Beinecke Library, 121 Wall St. The reading and reception are free and open to the public.
Currently poet laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Dove previously served as poet laureate of the United States 1993-1995. She is also the Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Dove has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1997 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 1996 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, and the 1996 National Humanities Medal.
Dove's numerous collections of poetry include "The Yellow House on the Corner," "Museum," "Thomas and Beulah," "Grace Notes," "Mother Love" and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks."
In addition to her collections of poetry, she is also the author of "Fifth Sunday," a book of short stories; the novel "Through the Ivory Gate; essays titled "The Poet's World"; and the play "The Darker Face of the Earth."
For "America's Millennium," the White House's 1999-2000 New Year's celebration, Dove contributed -- in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial accompanied by John Williams's music -- a poem to Steven Spielberg's documentary "The Unfinished Journey."
Her new poetry collection, "American Smooth," was published in September.
Duana Fullwiley, a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Anthropology at New York University, will give the next lecture in the Race, Health and Medicine Series on Wednesday, Dec. 1.
Fullwiley will speak on the topic "Minority DNA: Scientific Activism and the Molecularization of Race" at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 313, Gordon Parks Seminar Rm., 493 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
A member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Fullwiley is an anthropologist of science and medicine.
She is currently working on a monograph that chronicles both the social and historical contingencies that have made the course of sickle cell disease (lived experience, science and treatment) a unique experiment in vital humanism in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa.
Fullwiley has also received funding from the National Science Foundation to begin new research on the use of "race" as a technology for medical genomics. She is also the recipient of an SSRC International Dissertation Fields Research Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship.
On Wednesday, Dec. 1, David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, will give two lectures in the Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series.
Titled "Environmental and Economic Impacts of Pesticide Use in the United States," Pimental's lunch talk will take place noon-1:30 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 87 Trumbull St. In the evening, he will discuss "Environmental Impacts of Pesticide Use" at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. Both talks are open to the public free of charge. For more information, contact Lili Beit at (203) 432-9736 or lili.beit@yale.edu.
Pimental's research spans the fields of population dynamics, ecological and economic aspects of pest control, biological control, biotechnology, sustainable agriculture, land and water conservation, and environmental policy.
The author of more than 570 scientific papers and 23 books, Pimental has served on many national and government committees including the National Academy of Sciences; President's Science Advisory Council; U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare; Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress; and the U.S. State Department.
Dr. Stephanie Studenski, professor of medicine, allied health and nursing at the University of Pittsburgh and director of clinical research at the university's Institute on Aging, will speak in the Aging Research Seminar Series on Wednesday Dec. 1.
Dr. Studenski will discuss "Meaning, Change and Experience in Aging Research" at noon in Rm. 206 of the Boyer Center, 295 Congress Ave. The Aging Research Seminar series, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Yale Program on Aging and the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
A distinguished teacher and researcher, Studenski is the author of over 100 published articles and serves as associate editor for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She has been principal investigator of several groundbreaking studies addressing frailty, falls and mobility among older adults, and at the Older Americans Independence Center at the University of Kansas. She is currently principal investigator of the Pittsburgh Claude D. Pepper Center, as well as of two National Institute on Aging grants related to research training in aging.
Studenski's research interests include the evaluation and treatment of mobility disability in older adults. Her methodological interests are in recruitment and retention of older adults to research studies, the design and analysis of community-based clinical research and measurement of health and functioning in older adults.
Among her many accomplishments, Studenski is chair of the National Institutes of Health's study section on Aging Systems and Geriatrics and chair of the research committee of the American Geriatrics Society.
Ann M. Körner, author of "Guide to Publishing a Scientific Paper," will visit the campus and lead a workshop on Thursday, Dec. 2.
Körner's workshop will take place noon-1 p.m. in the Mary S. Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St. The workshop will be followed a question-and-answer period and a book signing. For more information about the workshop, call (203) 785-4680 or e-mail aaltman@snet.net. To register for the workshop, visit the website http://info.med.yale.edu/training.
Körner, who received her doctorate from Yale in 1974, worked subsequently as a research associate in the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Dermatology.
In 1985, Körner established Bioscript, an editorial service for the biological and medical sciences, which provides editorial services primarily to Japanese scientists.
In 1999, she was elected to the legislative council of the Town of Hamden and is serving her third two-year term on the council. In 2004, she was elected to the board of directors of the Easter Island Foundation and in September, she was asked to take over the responsibilities associated with running the foundation.
In addition to many scientific papers, her publications include "Early Visitors to Easter Island, 1864-1877," which is a translation from the French of accounts by the first four Europeans to spend any length of time on Easter Island; and "How to Murder Your Husband -- a Killer Cookbook," which is a collection of high-cholesterol recipes co-authored with Marilyn Gonzalez.
T H I S
'The myth of moral justice' is topic of panel discussion
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will read from her works
Anthropoligist to give next Race, Health and Medicine talk
The effects of pesticide use to be examined in bioethics talk
Advances in aging research to be discussed in lecture
Yale alumna will lead academic workshop for scientists
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