Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 18, 2005|Volume 33, Number 22

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Monty Python writer and actor to speak at Calhoun master's tea

British comedian and writer Terry Jones will be the guest at a Calhoun College master's tea on Tuesday, March 22.

Jones will speak at 3:45 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.

Jones was a member of the team of writers and performers who created "Monty Python's Flying Circus." He wrote the screenplay for and acted in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," "Monty Python's Life of Brian" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Jones is the author of numerous works of fiction, including "The Saga of Erik the Viking," which won the Children's Book Award in 1984 and "The Lady and the Squire" which was nominated for a Whitbread Award in 2001.

French Ambassador to give YCIAS lecture

The French Ambassador to the United States Jean-David Levitte will visit the campus on Tuesday, March 22.

Titled "The United States and France in a World Transformed," Levitte's talk will begin at 2:15 p.m. in Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Resource Center for the Teaching of French, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER) and the Connecticut State Department of Education.

Levitte assumed his present position in 2002. He previously served as the senior diplomatic adviser to President Jacques Chirac 1995-2000. In 2000, Chirac appointed him as French permanent representative to the United Nations. Levitte has handled several international negotiations, most notably, resolution 1441 on Iraq.

Levitte's first postings after passing the Foreign Service exam in 1970 were to Hong Kong and Beijing. In 1974, he joined the staff of the newly elected President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and remained at Elysée Palace until 1981.

Levitte was then assigned to his first position in the United States at the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations in New York.

Upon returning to Paris, Levitte served as deputy assistant secretary in the African Bureau. He was then assigned as deputy chief of staff to the Foreign Minister, a position he held from 1986 to 1988. Returning to Paris in 1990, he held senior positions in the French Foreign Ministry.

Noted child psychologist will examine children's health

Child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, director of the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, will speak on campus on Monday, March 21.

Rimm will discuss "Rescuing the Lives of Overweight Children" noon-1 p.m. in the Beaumont Rm., Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, call (203) 432-5660 or visit the website www.yale.edu/learningcenter. The event is co-sponsored by the McDougal Graduate Student Center, Office for Women in Medicine, the Women Faculty Forum and the Yale WorkLife Program.

A clinical professor at the Case School of Medicine, Rimm is the author of numerous articles and books, including "How to Parent So Children Will Learn," "Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades -- And What You Can Do About It," "See Jane Win®," "How Jane Won" and "See Jane Win® For Girls." "See Jane Win" was a New York Times bestseller and was featured on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Today Show" and in People Magazine. Her latest book, "Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Children," has been selected as a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award.

Rimm's newspaper column is syndicated nationally through Creators Syndicate, and she also writes for Redbook and Nick Jr.

A featured guest on public radio for many years, Rimm has also made numerous television appearances, including on "20/20," and has served as a contributing correspondent for nine years on NBC's "Today Show" and "Weekend Today."

Wall Street Journal bureau chief to be guest at master's tea

Calhoun College will host a visit by Helene Cooper, editorial board member and assistant editorial page editor for The New York Times, on Wednesday, March 23.

Cooper will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.

Cooper, who joined The New York Times in 2004, previously served for two years as assistant bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau and oversaw a group of Wall Street Journal reporters focusing on international economics and foreign policy.

A 2004 Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, Cooper is the author of "The House at Sugar Beach," a memoir that chronicles the social evolution of Liberia through the eyes of her family, which is descended from African-American slaves who emigrated to Liberia in the 19th century. She is also the editor of "At Home In the World," a compilation of the writings of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

In 2000 Cooper won the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting, for her stories on the negotiations on China's entry into the World Trade Organization. In 2001 she won the Sandy Hume Award for reporters under the age of 35 for a story about the plight of garment workers in Cambodia, and in 2002 she won the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for a story she wrote with four Wall Street Journal colleagues about five people who were in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

Renowned paleoanthropologist to speak at Peabody Museum

Paleoanthropologist Alan Walker, the Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Biology in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, will visit the campus on Tuesday, March 22.

Walker's talk, titled "The Human Evolutionary Mosaic," will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the third floor auditorium of the Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave. His talk, which is free and open to the public, is the third in a series of four lectures being held in conjunction with the permanent exhibition "Fossil Fragments: The Riddle of Human Origins." Featured prominently in the exhibit is a full-size replica of the "Turkana Boy," a young male who stands five feet six inches tall with an estimated height at maturity of six feet.

Walker will discuss the discovery of the "Turkana Boy," the best existing example of Homo erectus (ergaster) and the most complete early hominid skeleton yet found. Walker and fellow paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey discovered the fossil in 1984 on the banks of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.

A research associate of the National Museum of Kenya, Walker works on primate and human evolution, concentrating mainly on the fossil record from East Africa.

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

Financial burden for lower-income families eliminated

Professor created 'Science Saturdays' series to fuel flame . . .

Holloway named next master of Calhoun College

Campus-wide survey begins on March 21

David Leffell is appointed deputy dean for clinical affairs

Music school dean will leave to assume SMU post

Bloom to be honored with Hans Christian Andersen Award

Experiment demonstrates that monkeys have the ability to reason . . .

Researchers identify gene for age-related macular degeneration

Online auction will benefit Dwight Hall

Passion and ambition take center stage in 'Miss Julie'

School of Drama will present Ibsen's tragedy 'Hedda Gabler'

Internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry will visit the campus . . .

'The Physical Print' traces evolution of photographic process

Noted child psychiatrist will deliver inaugural Albert J. Solnit Lecture

Celebrated poet and renowned novelist are next Schlesinger Visiting Writers

In Memoriam: Jacques Guicharnaud, French theater scholar . . .

Nelson to head playwriting department

Yale editor Nayan Chanda earns Shorenstein Award for Journalism

Kiger will join artistic staff at Yale Rep

Library conference will explore preservation of global collections

Dr. James Comer to discuss future of public education

Bookbags and 'Schooliosis'