Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 2, 2007|Volume 36, Number 9

Visiting on Campus

Renowned playwright and performance artist to perform

Deb Margolin, renowned playwright and performance artist, will perform her work “O Wholly Night” on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

The one-woman show will take place at 8 p.m. at Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. A reception will follow. For more information, visit www.yale.edu/slifka.

Margolin, a founding member of Split Britches Theater Company, is the author of seven full-length solo performance pieces, which she has toured throughout the United States, as well as numerous plays. She is the recipient of a 1999-2000 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance and the Kesselring Playwriting Award for her play “Three Seconds in the Key” in 2005. Her play “Bringing the Fishermen Home” premiered at the Cleveland Public Theater in 1999.

Margolin’s work has been commissioned by the Jewish Museum of New York, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, and the Actor’s Theater of Louisville, among others. She has lectured extensively at universities throughout the country. She has been an artist-in-residence at Hampshire College and the University of Hawaii and the Zale writer-in-residence at Tulane University. In 2000, Margolin served as artist-in-residence in New York University’s Department of Undergraduate Drama. A book of her performance pieces and plays, “Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO,” was published in 1999.

Biomass energy is the topic of talk by award-winning engineer

Lee Lynd, professor of engineering at Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering and winner of the 2007 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability, will visit the campus on Thursday, Nov. 8.

Lynd’s talk, titled “Biomass Energy: Anticipating a Revolution,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Sponsored by the Center for Industrial Ecology and the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, the talk is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. For more information, contact Tim DeCerbo at (203) 436-4421 or timothy.decerbo@yale.edu. This talk was originally scheduled to take place on Sept. 20.

Lynd is considered to be a pioneer in the development of biomass-derived fuels, having worked on ethanol technology since the 1980s. He holds several patents related to biofuels and co-founded Mascoma Corporation in 2006, a cellulosic biofuels start-up company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2007, Lynd won the first Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability, one of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Awards for Invention and Innovation.

Lynd heads an active academic research group devoted to biomass conversion, encompassing biotechnology, process engineering, and energy and environmental public policy issues at Dartmouth College. He is an adjunct professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth College and a Professor Extraordinary of Microbiology at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

An analyst and advocate of the need to develop and adopt alternative fuels, Lynd co-led a multi-institution research project that produced the seminal report, “Growing Energy: How Biofuels Can Help End America’s Oil Dependence,” published in 2004 by the National Resources Defense Council.

How India balances insecurities to be addressed in ISS lecture

Stephen Cohen, senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, will give the next lecture in the Grand Strategy Lecture series addressing “The Grand Strategies of the Great Powers,” on Thursday, Nov. 8.

Titled “How India Balances Insecurities at Home and in the World,” Cohen’s talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 119, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Sponsored by International Security Studies, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

Cohen regularly appears on American national radio and television, and many foreign radio and television services. He has served on numerous study groups examining Asia sponsored by the Asia Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Foundation and the National Bureau of Asian Research. Currently, Cohen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control.

Cohen has written, co-authored or edited 10 books, including “The Idea of Pakistan,” “India: Emerging Power” (with Japanese, Indian, Chinese and Taiwanese editions), “The Pakistan Army” and “The Indian Army.”

He has conducted research in China, Britain, India, Pakistan, the former Soviet Union and Japan. Cohen has received grants from several major foundations and serves as a consultant to numerous government agencies.

In 2004, he was named one of the 500 most influential people in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America.

Behavioral health is focus of Zigler Center Lecture

Mark Schaefer, director of medical policy for the Connecticut Department of Social Services, will give the next Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy Lecture on Friday, Nov. 9.

Schaefer will discuss “Public Sector Behavioral Health for Children and Families: Aligning Systems and Incentives” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

A clinical psychologist, Schaefer joined the faculty of the Yale University Child Study Center in 1996 where he developed the behavioral health services division of a Yale-owned HMO; served as corporate adviser for Behavioral Health for HealthChoice of Connecticut; and served as a consultant for Yale Behavioral Health, a management services organization owned by the Yale School of Medicine. While at Yale, he also designed and implemented HUSKY PLUS Behavioral, a statewide SCHIP supplementary health insurance program for children in Connecticut with intensive behavioral health needs.

Schaefer is currently the Connecticut Department of Social Services’ lead in the design and implementation of mental health rehabilitation and waiver initiatives with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. He also co-directs the Connecticut Behavioral Health Partnership, a joint initiative with the Department of Children and Families to establish an integrated behavioral health service system for children and adults enrolled in HUSKY A and B.

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