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'Law and Order' star to give Elihu Yale Lecture
Nationally acclaimed stage and screen actor Sam Waterston '62, will give the Elihu Yale Lecture on Friday, Jan. 28.
"Television's Good Side: Public Defender, Advocate, Educator" is the title of his talk, which will begin at 5 p.m. in Sudler Hall, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Sponsored by the Elihu Club and the Yale Dramat, the talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
Perhaps best known for his role as Jack McCoy on NBC's long-running drama "Law and Order," Waterson is a six-time Emmy Award nominee (three times for "Law & Order" and three more for "I'll Fly Away"). He also won an Emmy for hosting the 10-part NBC informational series "Lost Civilizations" and received a Golden Globe for "I'll Fly Away." In addition, he earned the 1999 Screen Actors Guild Award for the role of McCoy, an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance in "The Killing Fields," and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Most Promising Newcomer for his portrayal of Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."
Waterston's film credits include the Woody Allen films "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors"; John Waters' "Serial Mom" and "Hopscotch"; and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie." He appeared in the NBC movie "The Matthew Shepard Story" and in the recent film "Le Divorce."
Waterston's award-winning stage work includes both Broadway and off-Broadway productions. He most recently appeared in the world premiere of David Rabe's "The Black Monk" at the Yale Rep in 2003.
U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon will give a talk on Wednesday, Feb. 2.
Harmon will speak at a master's tea at Calhoun College, 434 College St. The talk is open to the public free of charge.
Harmon served as the judge in the Arthur Andersen trial.
Harmon was the trial attorney for Exxon 1975-1988 and was appointed to the U.S. District Court's Southern District of Texas in 1989.
Dr. Fred Fiedorek, vice president of global research and development at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), will visit the campus on Friday, Jan. 28.
Fiedorek will give a lecture titled "Challenges and Opportunities in Pharmaceutical Research and Development: Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2002 and Now in 2005" noon-
In his position as vice president of global clinical research at Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Fiedorek, a Yale College graduate, leads the medical and professional staff involved in global clinical research and development for all therapeutic areas. In addition to designing, conducting and evaluating the results of clinical research for new therapies in development and recently approved medicines, the global clinical research group is also responsible for conducting clinical and scientific technical assessments for potential in-licensing opportunities.
Fiedorek also participates on several research and development committees, including the Institute Executive and the Exploratory Development Operating Committees. He also has overseen several cross-functional development teams for programs in diabetes, hepatitis, HIV and organ transplantation.
Before joining BMS in 2001, Fiedorek worked at GlaxoWellcome.
Calhoun College will host a visit by Mazin Qumsiyeh, founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation, on Monday, Jan. 31.
Qumsiyeh will be the guest at a master's tea at 4:30 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Currently the vice president of the Connecticut chapter of the Middle East Crisis Committee, Qumsiyeh has served on the faculty of both Duke and Yale universities. He is the former president of the Middle East Genetics Association, and is a cofounder of a number of groups including Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Triangle Middle East Dialogue and the Carolina Middle East Association, AcademicsForJustice.org and BoycottIsraeliGoods.org campaigns.
Qumsiyeh is an editor of the website www.PalestineRemembered.com and is the author of "Sharing the Land of Canaan: A Vision Based on Human Rights for Israelis and Palestinians."
Qumsiyeh, whose main interest is media activism and public education, has published over 100 letters to the editor and 50 op-ed pieces in such publications as the Washington Post, New York Times and Boston Globe. He has been interviewed on local, national and international radio, and has made appearances on CNBC, C-Span and ABC, among others.
A member of a number of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Peace Action and Human Rights Watch, Qumsiyeh was the 1998 recipient of the Jallow Activism Award from the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Ronald C. Arkin, the Regents Professor at the College of Computing and director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will speak to the Technology and Ethics Working Research Group on Wednesday, Feb. 2
Titled "Bombs, Bonding, and Bondage: Issues in Human-Robot Interaction," Arkin's lecture will begin at 4:15 p.m. at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies,
In his lecture, Arkin will discuss ongoing research on various ways in which humans can be engaged with robotic systems and the associated ethical issues.
Arkin's research interests include behavior-based reactive control and action-oriented perception for mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles, hybrid deliberative/reactive software architectures, robot survivability, multiagent robotic systems, biorobotics, human-robot interaction, and learning in autonomous systems.
He has over 120 technical publications and is the author of a textbook titled "Behavior-Based Robotics." Arkin is also the co-editor (with G. Bekey) of "Robot Colonies in 1997."
Arkin has received funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army, Savannah River Technology Center, Honda Research and Development, and the Office of Naval Research, among others.
The Department of English will sponsor a lecture by Jay Clayton, professor of English at Vanderbilt University, on Thursday, Feb. 3.
Clayton will discuss "Crimes of the Genome: Literature and the Gene for Violence" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 211, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The talk is free and open to the public.
A Yale alumnus and author of "Romantic Vision and the Novel," "The Pleasures of Babel" and "Charles Dickens in Cyberspace," Clayton focuses on the 19th century to the present, with recent emphasis on post-modernism, popular culture, technology and science.
In addition to numerous articles in these fields, both British and American, he is the co-editor of "Influence and Intertextuality" (with Eric Rothstein) and "Time and the Literary" (with Karen Newman and Marianne Hirsch).
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77 Trumbull St. Dinner and a continued discussion will take place 5:45-7 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Information Society Project at the Law School, the talk is free and open to the public. For information, reading materials and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
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