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Nobel Laureate to deliver biomedical talk on campus
Nobel Laureate Richard J. Roberts, chief scientific officer at New England Biolabs, will visit the campus on Monday, Feb. 27.
Roberts will discuss "The Genomics of Restriction and Modification" at 8 p.m. in Rm. 317, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The talk is free and open to the public.
In his lecture, Roberts will speak about the restriction-modification systems of bacteria, how his group has used bioinformatics to explore more than 300 bacterial sequences in search for RM systems, and how many more systems than were expected have been identified. He will also review the history of and the current understanding of such systems.
In 1993, Roberts was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of split genes.
Robert's laboratory pioneered the application of computers in the sequencing of the Adenovirus-2 genome. The further development of computer methods of protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis continues to be a major research focus for him. He also focuses his research on the semi-automatic identification of restriction enzyme and methylase genes within the GenBank database and the development of rapid methods to assay function.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, will visit the campus as the B. Benjamin Zucker Fellow on Monday, Feb. 27.
Sachs will speak on the subject of his most recent book, titled "The End of Poverty," at 2 p.m. in Sudler Hall, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. He will also be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. Both talks are open to the public free of charge.
Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of health policy and management at Columbia University. He is also director of the U.N. Millennium Project and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease and hunger by the year 2015.
Sachs is internationally renowned for his work as economic adviser to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa, and for his collaborations with international agencies on problems of poverty reduction, debt cancellation for the poorest countries and disease control. He has served as an adviser to the the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Development Program, among other international agencies.
Sponsored by the Yale College Dean's Office, the Zucker Fellowship was established in 1990 by a gift from the Class of 1962 to inspire students to embark on careers in environmental fields by bringing a major scientist, public policy figure or author in the field of environmental studies to campus each year.
Yale Opera will present a master class
with bass-baritone Alan Held on Monday, Feb. 27.
The class will take place at 7 p.m. in Sprague Hall, corner of College and Wall streets. Tickets for the master class are $8; $5 for students. For more information, call (203) 432-4158 or visit www.yale.edu/music.
An internationally acclaimed opera singer, Held has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Kirov Opera Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony, among others. He recently appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the role of Leporello in "Don Giovanni." He was featured as Borromeo in the Royal Opera's production of "Palestrina" at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1997 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
Held has also performed in leading roles at the Washington Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in Teatro Real in Madrid, the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Opera National de Paris, the Netherlands Opera, the Frankfurt Opera and the Theatre Royal de La Monnaie.
He was invited by Luciano Pavarotti to be his guest on a PBS "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcast of "Pavarotti Plus."
Held has received numerous prizes and honors, including the 1991 Birgit Nilsson Prize, two Richard Tucker Music Foundation Career Grants, and a Richard Gold Award from the Shoshana Foundation for his work with Wolf Trap Opera. He was named by Opera Education International as one of the 71 best singing actors and actresses over the past 46 years.
Bishop Vashti McKenzie, the first woman to serve as titular head of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, will deliver the Parks-King lecture at the Divinity School (YDS) on Feb. 28.
McKenzie's lecture will begin at 5:15 p.m. in Marquand Chapel, Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, 409 Prospect St. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception in the common room. A panel presentation, titled "Black Women Redefining Ministry and Community Leadership in the 21st Century: The YDS Influence," focusing on black women in ministry and community leadership featuring prominent women with ties to the Divinity School, will precede the lecture 3:30-5 p.m. in Marquand Chapel. A book-signing with McKenzie will be held 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the YDS Student Book Supply.
McKenzie was elected in 2004 to a one-year term as president of the A.M.E.'s Council of Bishops and currently serves as presiding prelate of the church's 13th Episcopal District, which encompasses Tennessee and Kentucky.
The Parks-King lecture, hosted by the Divinity School since 1983, commemorates the legacies of Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The goal of the lecture series is to bring the contributions of African-American scholars, social theorists, pastors and social activists to the Divinity School and to the wider New Haven community.
Bryan A. Stevenson, the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, will give the Richard W. Goldman Lecture on Wednesday, March 1.
Stevenson will speak on "Poverty, Race and Confronting Criminal Justice in America" at 4 p.m. in the common room of Branford College, 74 High St. The talk is free and open to the public.
A professor of law at the New York University School of Law, Stevenson has been recognized as one of the top public interest lawyers in the country. His representation of poor people and death row prisoners in the South has won him national recognition. Stevenson and his staff have been successful in overturning dozens of capital murder cases and death sentences where poor people have been unconstitutionally convicted or sentenced.
Stevenson's efforts to confront bias against the poor and people of color in the criminal justice system have earned him dozens of national awards including the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year, the ABA Wisdom Award for Public Service, the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Olaf Palme Prize for International Human Rights and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award Prize.
He has published articles on race and poverty and the criminal justice system, and manuals on capital litigation and habeas corpus.
The sixth annual Eustace D. Theodore '63 Fellowship program will feature Keith Ferrazzi, an entrepreneur, bestselling author and founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Ferrazzi Greenlight, on Wednesday, March 1.
Titled "Never Eat Alone; Get To Know the People that Will Change Your Life Forever," the workshop will take place 3:30-5:30 p.m. at Pierson-Davenport Auditorium, York St., down the Pierson College walkway. Sponsored by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), Pierson College and the Yale College Class of 1963, the workshop is free and the public is invited to attend.
Ferrazzi is a 1988 Yale College graduate. As founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he provides market leaders with advanced strategic consulting and training services to increase company sales, and enhance personal careers. Ferrazzi Greenlight applies experiences gleaned from the careers of its executives spent in corporate America, as well as principles from
Ferrazzi's book, "Never Eat Alone and Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time."
Ferrazzi actively supports numerous civic, charitable and educational organizations, and serves on the University's AYA Board of Governors. He founded and chairs Equality 1st, a foundation focused on ensuring that everyone has an equal chance at success. He is particularly interested in the relationship between leadership success and spirituality.
Richard N. Mack, professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University, will speak at the Yale Forest Forum Lunch on Thursday, March 2.
His lecture, titled "Potential Plant Invasions Between Eastern Asia and North America: Experimentally Evaluating The Risks," will take place noon-12:55 p.m. in Marsh Hall Rotunda, 360 Prospect St. Lunch will be provided. The talk is free and open to the public.
For over 20 years, Mack has focused his research on the ecology of invasive species. Much of his research has dealt with the Bromus tectorum (Cheatgrass or downy brome) in the western United States. He has also investigated plant invasions in Hawaii and the southeastern United States.
Mack is particularly interested in the population biology, including the immigration, demography, competitive ability and ecological genetics, of plant invaders as well as their environmental effects. He has framed much of his research with the goal of both addressing fundamental and applied aspects of combating invasive species.
He has served on editorial boards of Ecology & Ecological Monographs, Oecologia, Ecological Applications and Biological Invasions. Until recently, he served on the Scientific Committee for Problems in the Environment Executive Committee, and was a member of the Board for the Global Invasive Species Programme. He is currently a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature specialist group on invasive species.
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