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Promising advances in environmental technology to be explored

The reasons why commercial investments in environmental technology and services have often not lived up to financial projections will be the focus of the Faculty of Engineering Dean's Guest Lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 15.

The featured speaker will be F. Peter Boer, president and chief executive officer of Tiger Scientific, a firm that provides consulting and investment services in the technology arena. The talk, titled "A Practical Perspective on Environmental Engineering," will be held at 4 p.m. in Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St., and is free and open to the public.

Using case studies, Mr. Boer will discuss the factors affecting the adoption of promising new environmental technology, particularly the economic and political barriers to the commercialization of new processes.

Mr. Boer has extensive experience in environmental technology, beginning with his responsibilities for environmental analytical chemistry at the Dow Chemical Company, where his research team developed and commercialized ion chromatography. He has made extensive contributions in the field of clean air technology, including the development of novel catalysts for selective catalytic reduction, the Noxso process and the electrically heated catalytic converter. He is a long-term member of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and has testified before Congress in this area. For several years, Mr. Boer held primary responsibilities for environmental compliance and remediation at W. R. Grace & Co. and led research in physical and biological remediation of water, soil and asbestos there. He is also past-president of the Industrial Research Institute, whose member companies perform approximately 85 percent of the industrial research and development in the United States.

Educator to speak on state's response to 'Sheff v. O'Neill'

The State of Connecticut's response to the court's ruling on school integration in the "Sheff v. O'Neill" case will be the subject of a talk by Gordon A. Bruno, executive director of the Connecticut Center for Social Change, on Friday, Jan. 17. His talk, titled "Sheff: Reform or More Tinkering?", will take place at noon in Rm. 410 of Sheffield- Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. Sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, it is free and open to the public.

Before founding the Connecticut Center for School Change in 1994, Mr. Bruno served as superintendent of schools in Meriden, Connecticut, for five years; in the Ithaca City School District in Ithaca, New York, for seven years, and in Wellesley, Massachusetts, for five years. He was also a high school principal in Darien, Connecticut, and in Middletown, New York, and was director of teacher education and associate professor of education at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.

Mr. Bruno's recent leadership activities in Connecticut include membership on the state legislative task force that created the Strategic School Profiles, the report card for the state's public schools, and membership on the Commission on Educational Excellence, a legislative commission charged in 1992 with reforming public education in Connecticut.

For further information, call 432-9935.

Award-winning Japanese artist to speak at two events

Nobuhiko Utsumi, an artist who has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions in Japan and has won many awards for his work, will be the featured speaker at two campus events. On Monday, Jan. 20, he will give a slide presentation and lecture at 4 p.m. in second- floor common room in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., where some of his most current work will be on display. The following day, Mr. Utsumi will be the guest at a tea at 4 p.m. in the Trumbull College master's house, 100 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.

Mr. Utsumi gave up a career in law to study oil painting in 1975. He graduated in 1981 from Tama Fine Art College. He is known for his use of elemental forms, and his work is characterized by swirling images that appear as visualizations of the wind or gravity. The artist is also noted for removing constructions between his viewers and his art.

Mr. Utsumi's visit is cosponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, Trumbull College and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

Psychologist to talk about 'false memories' of abuse

Sara Gamble, staff psychologist at the Traumatic Stress Institute in South Windsor, Connecticut, will be the featured speaker for the next Program for Humanities in Medicine Lecture, which will be held on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. In a talk titled "False Childhood Memories: Epidemics or Backlash," Ms. Gamble will discuss research concerning allegations by patients that "false memories" of childhood abuse were implanted in their minds by clinicians, a subject that has drawn widespread media attention over the past decade. Her talk is free and open to the public.


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