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Nobel Prize winner to give bioethics talks
Dr. Paul Berg, the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research Emeritus and director emeritus of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, Sept. 8, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series exploring the ethics of research with human subjects.
Berg will discuss "In a Pluralistic Society, Whose Bioethics Is Most Ethical?" at a seminar from noon to 1:30 p.m. at ISPS,
87 Trumbull St. In a public lecture at
7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center,
80 Wall St., he will discuss "Biotechnology: Dealing with Public Concerns." Both lectures are open to the public free of charge. For further information, contact Lili Beit at (203) 432-9736 or lili.beit@yale.edu.
Berg, widely regarded as one of the principal pioneers in gene splicing, has received international recognition for his work on the genetic mechanisms through which cells form proteins. He has been honored with numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 for developing methods to map the structure and function of DNA, and an honorary degree from Yale in 1978.
Berg has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and its Institute of Medicine, the French Academy of Science and the Royal Society in London. He is also an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Microbiology.
Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), will give a talk in the Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) lecture series on Thursday, Sept. 9.
Hershkowitz will discuss "Barriers to Sustainable Industrial Development" at 4 p.m. in Bowers Aud., 205 Prospect St. The talk is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Hershkowitz specializes in issues related to sustainable development, the paper industry, industrial ecology and recycling, among others. He joined the senior staff of NRDC in 1989 and is the director of the council's National Solid Waste Project and Paper Industry Reform Project.
He was a principal author of President Clinton's "Greening the Government" and was the originator of the Bronx Community Paper Company project, a half-billion dollar paper recycling, brownfield clean-up and sustainable community development project in New York City.
Hershkowitz has served on or advised numerous advisory and environmental bodies throughout the world.
The IEM lecture series is sponsored by the IEM Program at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). In its 14th year, the series brings speakers from a variety of companies and organizations to F&ES to discuss the relationship between business and the environment. For more information about the lecture series, contact Gretchen Rings at (203) 432-6953 or gretchen.rings@yale.edu.
John P. Avlon, a columnist and associate editor of the New York Sun who formerly served as speechwriter for former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, will be the guest at a master's tea on Wednesday, Sept. 15.
Avlon will speak at 4:30 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
A 1996 graduate of Yale College, Avlon is the author of "Independent Nation: How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics," which was hailed by the New York Post as "a compelling distillation of recent political history through the prism of Centrist politics."
As speechwriter and deputy communications director in the Giuliani administration, Avlon prepared the mayor's State of the City addresses and testified before the U.S. Congress on issues of homeland security and government reform, among other duties. He and his team were responsible for writing the eulogies for all New York City firefighters and police officers, Port Authority police officers and other emergency workers killed in the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center.
Avlon currently serves as an alternate host of NPR's "Left, Right and Center."
The second annual "Race, Health and Medicine" series, a year-long event featuring lectures and seminars, will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 15, with a lecture by South African attorney Roger Chennells.
"Indigenous Rights in South Africa and Bioethics" is the title of Chennells' talk, which will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The event is free and open to the public.
Since 1992, Chennells has focused his career on legal advocacy on behalf of indigenous populations in southern Africa. He is co-founder of the South African San Institute and of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee. He serves as the legal adviser to these organizations, as well as to the Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa.
Recently, Chennells successfully won legal recognition of the property rights of the San people, whose knowledge of Hoodia, a plant native to the Kalahari Desert that has been shown to suppress the appetite, is highly sought after by the pharmaceutical industry. The San are now collaborators with pharmaceutical companies and will benefit from profit-sharing should the plant be successfully developed into a viable drug.
The 2004 "Race, Health and Medicine" series will address health and illness in the African diaspora from diverse perspectives. The series is sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the Center for International and Area Studies, the African Studies Council and the African American Studies Department. For more information, contact Alondra Nelson at (203) 432-1176 or visit the website at www.yale.edu/afamstudies/events.html.
Betina Jean-Louis, director of evaluation, and Katherine Shoemaker, director of special projects for the president at the Harlem Children's Zone Inc. (HCZ), will give the first lecture in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Sept. 17.
Their talk, titled "The Harlem Children's Zone Project: A New Paradigm for the Old Problem of Poverty," will be held at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 102, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-9935.
The Harlem Children's Zone Project is a multi-year, comprehensive community building initiative that aims to create positive opportunities and outcomes for children living in a 24-block area of central Harlem. The project, which serves 3,000 children annually, helps parents, residents and teachers create a safe learning environment through an integrated network of services and support that provides family stability, employment opportunities, affordable housing, quality education and youth development activities.
Jean-Louis leads the assessment of the implementation and impact of a variety of HCZ programs. Shoemaker helps to strategize, develop and evaluate a wide variety of projects, including, most recently, a 92,000-square-foot construction project for the HCZ's school headquarters, the HCZ Promise Academy Charter School, HCZ Business Plans (2000 and 2003) and the HCZ Asthma Initiative.
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