Westinghouse CEO to deliver Sheffield address
Alumnus Michael H. Jordan '57, chairman and chief executive officer of Westinghouse Electric Corp., will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address on Wednesday, Sept. 18. He will speak on the topic "Technology and Politics" at 4:30 p.m. in Sudler Auditorium, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.
Since assuming the leadership of Westinghouse in 1993, Mr. Jordan has led one of the most comprehensive restructuring efforts ever undertaken within a major U. S. corporation. He implemented a multi-faceted program to improve Westinghouse's financial performance by reshaping its portfolio, reducing debt and taking action to boost earnings.
With the acquisition of CBS in late 1995 and the establishment of a more focused and efficient portfolio, Mr. Jordan has provided a foundation for sustainable, long-term growth. In 1994, he was named to President Clinton's Export Council, which advises the president on export performance and expansion, and also provides a forum for resolving trade-related issues. He accompanied the late U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and other government officials on trade-building missions to countries throughout Asia and Latin America.
Before joining Westinghouse, Mr. Jordan was a partner with Clayton, Dubilier and Rice Inc., a private investment firm based in New York City. Prior to that, he spent 18 years with PepsiCo Inc., where he was director of planning before moving on to senior management positions with Pepsi Cola International, PepsiCo Foods International, the Frito Lay Division and at corporate headquarters as chief financial officer and president.
The Sheffield Fellowship was established earlier this year to honor the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, which produced some of the greatest inventors and industrial leaders of the 19th and 20th centuries. Founded in 1852, the school offered engineering degrees until the mid-1940's, when engineering was absorbed into the growing Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The fellowship brings to Yale leaders and innovators in business, industry, and government who are at the forefront of important developments in their fields. In addition to presenting a lecture, the fellow tours laboratories and classrooms, and meets informally with faculty and students. Princeton scholar to discuss her book 'Sojourner Truth'
Nell Painter, professor of history and African-American studies at Princeton University, will discuss her new book "Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol" on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 4 p.m. in Sudler Hall of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. A book signing and reception will immediately follow the lecture in the Gordon Parks Room Rm. 110 , 493 College St. The public is welcome to attend both free events.
Professor Painter is currently Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton, where she teaches the history of the United States. Much of her writing has been about southerners, such as Hosea Hudson, Gertrude Thomas and Wilbur Cash. In more recent years, however, she has begun to write on the United States as a whole. Her most recent book is a full-length, scholarly biography of Sojourner Truth, the black abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Her other books include "Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction," "The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South" and "Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919." She is now working on a study of families and sexuality in the 19th-century South.
Professor Painter has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Bunting Institute and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her honors include the Brown Publication Prize, awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians, the Candace Award from the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women and an Annual Distinguished Black Alumnus a award from the University of California at Berkeley. Environmental law is topic of talk by EPA administrator
Jonathan Z. Cannon, assistant administrator general counsel of the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection EPA , will present the first talk in the Law School Dean's Lecture Series on Thursday, Sept. 19, in the Faculty Lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Cannon has served the EPA for nearly a decade, during which time he has held a variety of positions with the agency. These include serving as assistant administrator chief financial officer, director of the Gulf of Mexico program and deputy assistant administrator in the agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. A 1974 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he also was a law clerk to Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He has been a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law and was an adjunct professor at Washington and Lee Law School. Former Italian prime minister to present lecture
Former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato will speak on the subject "If Not EMU, Then What?" on Friday, Sept. 20, at 2:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The event, cosponsored by the department of political science, the West European Studies Council and the Law School, is free and open to the public.
Mr. Amato is currently professor of constitutional law at the University of Rome and head of Italy's Anti-Trust Authority. A long- time member of the Italian Socialist Party and former member of the Chamber of Deputies, he served as chief political adviser to the prime minister during 1983-87, minister of the Treasury 1987-89 and prime minister 1992-93. During his tenure as Treasury minister, he was one of the first advocates of Economic and Monetary Union in the European community and participated in the negotiations that culminated in the Treaty on European Union signed at Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1992. Specialist on marine mammals to speak as part of lecture series
"Marine Mammals and Fisheries Interactions" is the title of a talk being presented on Tuesday, Sept. 24, by Robert J. Hofman, scientific program director for the Marine Mammal Commission. His free talk is being offered as part of the series "Fisheries for the Future: Science, Conservation, and Management for the New Century," sponsored by several Yale departments and organizations. It will begin at 5 p.m. in Rm. 202 of Osborn Memorial Laboratories, 165 Prospect St.
Mr. Hofman has been the scientific program director for the Marine Mammal Commission since 1975. Since 1994 he has been a member of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Working Group on Unusual Marine Mammal Mortality Events. He was an alternate U.S. representative in this year's XXth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. He formerly held positions as a researcher at the University of Minnesota and as a high school biology teacher.
Mr. Hofman has written numerous articles on marine mammal life, covering topics ranging from the environmental effects of marine fishing and the interactions between marine mammals and fisheries throughout the world.
Sponsors of the lecture series are the Yale Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, the Program in Organismal Biology and Studies in the Environment. Funding is provided by the Curtis & Edith Munson Foundation, The Henry Foundation and the Coastal and Conservation Association.