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January 14, 2005|Volume 33, Number 15|Two-Week Issue



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Nestlé executive is next Gordon Grand Fellow

Joe Weller, chair and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nestlé USA, will give the next Gordon Grand Lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 19.

Weller will discuss "Nestlé USA: A New Business Model" at 4:30 p.m. in the Branford College common room, 74 High St. A reception will precede the lecture at 4 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.

A company veteran of 36 years, Weller, who is also the chair of the Nestlé Brands Company, Nestlé Prepared Foods Company and Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, began his career in 1968 with the Carnation Company in sales in the Memphis, Tennessee region. After serving in a wide variety of positions at Nestlé over the years, Weller was promoted to president and chief operating officer of the company in 1992, became president and CEO in 1994 and was named to his current position in 1995.

Weller is actively involved in Nestlé USA's Adopt-A-School Program, a national education program in which over 1,500 Nestlé USA employees participate by volunteering at Nestlé's adopted schools around the country. The program includes a speaker's bureau, a "pen friends" program, a fund-raising book fair for the schools' libraries, field trips and after-school mentoring and tutoring.

Weller is a member of The College Fund/UNCF board, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Company board and a member of the board of directors and vice chair of the Grocery Manufacturers of America.


ISS talk will focus on homeland security

The Yale-Stimson Fellowship for Distinguished Practitioners from Government, Business and Non-Governmental Organizations will host a visit by Stephen E. Flynn, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, on Thursday, Jan. 20.

Titled "America the Vulnerable: Securing the Neglected Home Front," Flynn's talk will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Rm. 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Sponsored by International Security Studies and the International Affairs Council, the talk is free and open to the public.

A retired U.S. Coast Guard commander, Flynn is considered to be a foremost expert on homeland security and border control, and serves as director of the council's Hart-Rudman Independent Task Force on Homeland Security. His areas of expertise are homeland security, transportation security, border control and the international crime and drug trade.

Earlier in his career, Flynn served as a consultant on homeland security to the U.S. Commission on National Security and as director of the Office of Global Issues at the National Security Council.

Flynn is the author of numerous books and articles, including "America the Vulnerable," "Transforming Border Management in the Post-September 11 World," "The Unguarded Homeland" and "Beyond Border Control."

Flynn, who was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism in Transportation and Distribution Systems in 2002, is the 2001 recipient of the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, and received the Coast Guard Academy's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1999.


Archeologist will discuss lost artifacts in Mesopotamia

Joanne Farchakh, archeological correspondent for Archéologia, will visit the campus on Thursday, Jan. 20.

Farchakh will present an illustrated lecture titled "Mesopotamia Endangered: Witnessing the Loss of History" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 200, Old Art Gallery, 56 High St. Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Middle East Council, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

A native of Lebanon, Farchakh has been the archaeological correspondent for the French bi-monthly periodical Archéologia for the past four years.

As events in Iraq have unfolded, Farchakh has written extensively on the significance of the destruction of archaeological sites and museum collections. She is the only journalist to have visited certain sites in recent years, having obtained the protection of tribal chiefs who control much of the area around numerous ancient settlements.

Her reports and photographs have been widely published in the international press, including unique images of sites and artifacts. In addition, her expertise in the issues of cultural heritage loss have garnered her frequent invitations to testify before international groups and agencies.


Noted author will read from her work

Author Cynthia Ozick will give a reading from her work on Thursday, Jan. 20.

Ozick will read from "Heir To The Glimmering World: A Novel" at 4 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale. The reading is free and the public is invited to attend.

Ozick's reputation as a serious and challenging writer was made with the publication of the controversial short story "The Pagan Rabbi" in 1966. In that story and throughout her career, the question of what it means to be Jewish has preoccupied Ozick, especially from her particular perspective as a woman and an American.

Three of her stories have won first prize in the O. Henry Prize Story competition, and five of her stories were chosen for republication in the yearly anthologies of Best American Short Stories.

The author of novels, essays and plays, her short story collections include "The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories" and "Levitation." In 1980, Ozick published "The Shawl" in The New Yorker, considered by many to be her most powerful short story. In 1983, again in The New Yorker, Ozick published a sequel to "The Shawl," titled "Rosa."

Ozick has been nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/
Faulkner Award. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was honored with the American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award.


Film festival will feature work by award-winning alumnus

The 3rd annual Asian American Film Festival will feature a talk by writer and director Greg Pak and a screening of his award-winning film on Thursday, Jan. 20.

The screening of Pak's first feature film "Robot Stories" will take place at 7:30 p.m., followed by a discussion with the filmmaker in Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 63 High St.

"Robot Stories" has played in over 50 festivals, won over 30 awards, and is now screening theatrically across the country. Pak's feature screenplay "Rio Chino" won the Pipedream Screenwriting Award at the 2002 IFP Market and a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship in 2003.

A Yale College alumnus, Pak wrote the screenplay for the feature film "MVP," which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. He is currently writing "Famous Long Ago" for Antidote Films and "Warlock" for Marvel Comics.

Pak's short film, "Fighting Grandpa," has won 20 prizes, including a Student Academy Award, and has played in over 50 film festivals. His comic shorts "Asian Pride Porn" and "All Amateur Ecstasy" are among the most viewed films at AtomFilms.com. His shorts "Mouse," "Po Mo Knock Knock," "Cat Fight Tonight" and "The Penny Marshall Project" have won awards and been screened in dozens of film festivals around the world.

Pak, who edits FilmHelp.com and AsianAmericanFilm.com, was the cinematographer of "The Personals," an Academy Award winning short documentary.

The 3rd annual Asian American Film Festival will take place Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 20-22. Films will be screened in LC and at the York Square Cinema, 61 Broadway. For more information on the film festival, visit www.yale.edu/aacc or e-mail christina.li@yale.edu. Individual film listings also appear in the "Calendar" section of this newspaper.


IRS commissioner will examine the 'price of citizenship'

Mark W. Everson, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), will visit the campus under the auspices of the Eustace D. Theodore '63 Fellowship Program on Monday, Jan 24.

Everson will give a master's tea at 4 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. He will deliver a public lecture 7:30-8:30 p.m. on the topic "Taxes: The Price of Citizenship" in Sudler Hall, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Both events are free and open to the public.

A 1976 graduate of Yale College, Everson was appointed to a 5-year term as commissioner of the IRS by the U.S. Senate in 2003. Everson presides over the continued reorganization and modernization of the nation's tax administration agency. His priorities include strengthening enforcement of the tax laws and improving services for taxpayers. The agency has approximately 100,000 employees and a budget of $10 billion.

From 2002 until his confirmation, Everson served as deputy director for management for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In this capacity, he provided government-wide leadership to executive branch agencies to strengthen federal management and improve program performance. Everson chaired the President's Management Council. The council is charged with improving overall executive branch management, including implementation of the President's Management Agenda. Before becoming deputy director for management, Everson served as controller of the Office of Federal Financial Management, also a part of OMB.


Lecture will explore changes in the Middle East

International Security Studies and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will sponsor a talk by Shai Feldman, head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, on Monday, Jan. 24.

Feldman will discuss "The Middle East in a Time of Rapid Change" at 7:30 p.m. in the Slifka Center chapel, 80 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public.

Feldman was appointed head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University in 1997, prior to which he served as a senior research associate since the center's establishment.

Previously, Feldman was a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a senior research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Feldman is a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

Feldman has written extensively on nuclear weapons proliferation and arms control in the Middle East, U.S. policy in the region, American-Israeli relations, and the Middle East peace process. Among his publications are "After the War in Iraq: Defining the New Strategic Balance," "Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the Middle East," "Bridging the Gap: A Future Security Architecture for the Middle East"(with Abdullah Toukan), "The Future of U.S.-Israel Strategic Cooperation" and "Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: A Strategy for the 1980s."


Lecture will explore history of race in science and medicine

The Race, Health and Medicine series will continue with a talk on Wednesday, Jan. 26, by Evelynn Hammonds, professor of the history of science and of African American studies at Harvard University.

Titled "What's History Got to Do With It?: Race and the New Genomics," Hammonds' lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, African Studies Council, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the talk is free and open to the public.

Hammonds' research areas include topics in the histories of science, medicine and public health in the United States; race and gender in science studies; and feminist theory in the United States. She is currently completing a history of biological, medical and anthropological uses of racial concepts titled "The Logic of Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States."

Hammonds taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before coming to Harvard. While at MIT she was the founding director of the MIT Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology and Medicine.

Recently named a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer by the Scientific Research Society, Hammonds been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Campus responds to tsunami disaster with relief efforts

Alumnus' gift will fund environment center in new F&ES building

Fossils offer insights into consequences of extinction

Festival puts spotlight on the arts at Yale


ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

Campus events mark birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.

Astronomers' maps show dark matter clumps in galaxies

With grant, Yale to develop new programs to retain doctoral students

Exhibits feature landscape paintings in era of British exploration


SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS

Engineer wins prestigious Nishizawa Medal

Colloquium honors retired professor Michael Holquist

Artworks based on sacred themes and Ethiopian iconography . . .

Works by 'mythic figure in modern art' are the focus . . .

Exhibit showcases examples of crimes in ancient history

Evolution is theme of scientist's Terry Lectures

Himalayan kingdom is topic of next Tetelman Lecture

Statue honors accomplishments of Yale's first Chinese student

World Conservation Union adopts resolution by F&ES students

In Memoriam: Dr. Nicholas M. Greene

Campus Notes


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