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Distinguished nurse to deliver keynote address
On Tuesday, Feb. 14, Kathleen C. Buckwalter, the associate director of the Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, co-director of the Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence and co-director of the University of Iowa's Center on Aging, will give the keynote address at the 8th annual Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care Convocation. Excellence in Caring Awards, acknowledging consistent excellence in promoting or delivering care for people with chronic illness and their families, will be presented.
Buckwalter's address, titled "Community Based and Institutional Approaches to Support Caregivers of Persons with Dementia," will begin at 4 p.m. at the School of Nursing lecture hall, 100 Church St. South. A reception will follow the talk. The event is free and open to the public.
Buckwalter holds joint appointments in the University of Iowa College of Medicine Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine.
Her work has focused on improving mental health services and providing community-based care for chronically ill older persons. Her specific clinical and research interests are in the area of geriatric mental health.
She has written extensively in the field of gerontology, having authored over 250 articles and 80 chapters, and editing eight books.
Buckwalter is the recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. She was honored with the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Excellence in Research Award, and was the first recipient of the National Gerontological Nursing Association Board of Directors Award.
Nicholas Kristof, an op-ed columnist at The New York Times, will deliver the 13th annual Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Kristof's talk, titled "The First Genocide of the 21st Century: Reporting from Darfur," will be held at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. A reception will follow. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Center for International and Area Studies, the Law School and the School of Management.
Kristof joined The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics. He then served as a business correspondent based in Los Angeles, Hong Kong bureau chief, Beijing bureau chief and Tokyo bureau chief. In 2000, he covered the presidential campaign and in particular then-Governor George Bush, and he is the author of the chapter on Bush in the reference book "The Presidents."
In 1990, Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, also a New York Times journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China's Tiananmen Square democracy movement. They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism. Kristof has won numerous other prizes including the George Polk Award and the Overseas Press Club awards.
Kristof and WuDunn are authors of "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" and "Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia."
The Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale was established in 1992 to support endeavors among specialists in the intersection between international relations, international law, and the management of international enterprises and organizations.
Noted British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy will deliver the first Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Goldsworthy will speak at 5:45 p.m. in the auditorium of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. "Rivers and Tides," a documentary about his work, will be screened on Tuesday and Thursday, Feb. 14 and 16, at 1 p.m., at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The talk and film screening are open to the public free of charge.
For the past 25 years, Goldsworthy has focused on creating sculpture, much of it ephemeral, made of organic materials such as wood, stone, snow, ice, flowers, sand, reeds, leaves and mud. In the United States, he has permanent sculptures located at the Storm King Art Center in New York, Stanford University in California, the Neuberger Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, among numerous others. In 2004, Goldsworthy created "Stone Houses" for the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The subject of a 2002 documentary film "Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time," Goldsworthy has produced numerous site-specific works and commissions world-wide, and has had solo museum exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan. Nine books have been published on his work, including "Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture, 1976-1990" and "Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature." The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., recently commissioned a piece by Goldsworthy titled "Roof."
Established to honor the memory of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971, the annual Ritchie Lectures, which are jointly sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, bring to the University distinguished members of the international visual arts community.
Critically acclaimed author Jamaica Kincaid will read selections from her latest book "Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya" on Thursday, Feb. 16.
The reading will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall, 120 High St. The event, part of the Black History Month celebration at Yale, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the talk in the library's Memorabilia Room. Both the reading and the reception are free and open to the public.
Kincaid was born as Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua. At the age of 17, she left the island and her family to embark on a new life in the United States. She changed her name in 1973 to Jamaica Kincaid, as a result of her family's disapproval of her writing.
Her first writing experience was a series of articles and stories for Ingenue magazine including her first published short story, "Girl," which became part of the collection "At the Bottom of the River" published in 1983. Her first novel, "Annie John," was published in 1985. For almost 20 years she was a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine, writing articles for the Talk of the Town section that were published in 2001 as "Talk Stories."
Among her essays, novels and memoirs are "A Small Place," "Lucy," "The Autobiography of My Mother" and "Mr. Potter." In "Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya," Kincaid recounts her seed collecting expedition in Asia.
Don Oberdorfer, the Distinguished Journalist in Residence and adjunct professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., will visit the campus Wednesday-Thursday, Feb. 15-16.
Oberdorfer will give a lecture titled "From the Rear of the Secretary's Plane: A Journalist's-Eye View of the Cold War," on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 101, Rosenfeld Hall, 109 Grove St. On Thursday, he will discuss "The United States, the Two Koreas and the Nuclear Bomb" at 4 p.m. in the master's house, Berkeley College, 125 High St. Sponsored by International Security Studies, the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and Berkeley College, both talks are free and open to the public.
Previously, Oberdorfer was a journalist for 38 years, including 25 years on the Washington Post. He joined the Washington Post in 1968 and covered the Nixon White House, Northeast Asia (based in Tokyo) and U.S. diplomacy, including 17 years as diplomatic correspondent before retiring from journalism in 1993.
Oberdorfer is the author of five books, the most recent book of which is the biography of the late Senator and Ambassador Mike Mansfield. His book "The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History," on the North-South struggle in Korea, was awarded the 10th annual Asia-Pacific Book Prize for the Japanese edition. In addition, he has written thousands of newspaper articles and dozens of magazine articles.
Oberdorfer has won numerous awards for journalistic excellence, including the National Press Club's Edwin M. Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence (in 1981 and 1988).
T H I S
Reporting from Darfur is topic of annual Coca-Cola Lecture
Inaugural Ritchie Lecture to be given by celebrated sculptor
Renowned author to give reading from her work
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to speak on the Cold War
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