Fertility in Africa is subject of talk by population expert
"Human Fertility in Africa: The Mismatch between Theory and Current Observations" is the title of a talk being presented on Wednesday, Nov. 5, by Allan Hill,
the Andelot Professor of Demography in the department of population and international health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Sponsored by the Institute for Biospheric Studies, his talk will begin at
4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. It is free and open to the public.
Mr. Hill is also a resident faculty member at the Center for Population and Development Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the secretary-general and treasurer of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, the principal professional association for population scientists worldwide. He is a specialist on the interaction between health, mortality and fertility in the Arab world and West Africa. In Africa he has studied the impact of anti-malarial measures on childhood mortality and morbidity, and male fertility in The Gambia. His work in Arab countries has included a study of the health and mortality transition in the Sultanate of Oman, a topic on which he has written a book, and district-level variations in fertility in the Arab world.
He formerly taught at Kuwait University, Aberdeen University in Scotland, the School of Public Health in Beirut and the medical school at the University of Jordan, and he was a regional representative for Arab West Asia for The Population Council.
Director of Irish gallery to lecture on the legacy of Hugh Lane
Barbara Dawson, director of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland, will present a lecture titled "Irish Art at the End of the Twentieth Century: Legacy of Hugh Lane" on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 5 p.m. at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. Her talk, offered in conjunction with the center's exhibition "Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns," is free and open to the public.
Ms. Dawson has written extensively on the collection at the Hugh Lane Gallery and on Hugh Lane. Her 1993 publication "Images and Insights, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art" was the first-ever color catalogue on treasures from the gallery's collection. She is currently overseeing a major extension to the gallery to be completed in 2000.
A former member of the curatorial staff of the National Gallery, she also authored "Turner in the National Gallery of Ireland."
Journal editor to give two talks at the medical school
Dr. Marsha Angell, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and lecturer in the department of social medicine at Harvard University, will present two talks on campus on Thursday, Nov. 6, for members of the medical school community.
At 8:30 a.m., she will present the 1997 Phyllis Bodel Memorial Lecture on "The Story of Breast Implants" in the Fitkin Amphitheatre (enter through 310 Cedar St.) Following that lecture, at 10 a.m., she will offer a talk titled "Reflections on My Career in Medicine" in Rm. 110 of the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St.
A pathologist, Dr. Angell joined the
editorial staff of the New England Journal of Medicine in 1979 and became executive editor in 1988. She is the author of the newly published "Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast implant Case" and coauthored the first three editions of the textbook "Basic Pathology." She writes frequently for the New England Journal of Medicine and other publications on a wide range of topics, and has particular interests in health policy, the ethics of biomedical research, the nature of medical evidence and care at the end of life. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Association of American Physicians.
The Phyllis Bodel Memorial Lecture was established to honor the late Dr. Phyllis Tuck Bodel, a physician/scientist in the department of internal medicine at the School of Medicine.
Noted biographer will be the guest at a master's tea
Phyllis Rose '65 M.A., a Wesleyan University English professor whose 1978 biography of Virginia Woolf was nominated for a National Book Award, will be the guest at a tea on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4:40 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house,
189 Elm St. At the event, which is free and open to the public, Ms. Rose will discuss "Writing About Yourself and Others: Reflections on 'The Year of Reading Proust.'"
In addition to her biography of Woolf, Ms. Rose is the author of "Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages," "Writing of Women: Essays in a Renaissance," "Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time" and "Never Say Goodbye: Essays." She is currently at work on "The Year of Reading Proust."
The editor of the 1993 "The Norton Book of Women's Lives," she has written book reviews and articles for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly and The Yale Review, among other publications. Named as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, Ms. Rose was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
School readiness is topic of talk at the Bush Center
Thomas D. Ritter, the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, will talk about Connecticut's 1997 Act Concerning School Readiness on Friday, Nov. 7, at noon in the weekly lecture series sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at Rose Alumni House, 232 York St.
Mr. Ritter, who has represented Hartford in the Connecticut General Assembly since 1981, led a successful campaign in the state legislature this year to pass a major bill investing in early childhood education. The Act Concerning School Readiness, which makes a quality preschool experience available to three- and four-year-olds in targeted school districts, passed by a unanimous vote.
Elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1993, Mr. Ritter is currently serving an unprecedented third term. An attorney, he has also served as president of the National Speakers Association and as a member of the board of directors for the State Legislative Leaders Foundation.
For further information, call 432-9935.
Forest Service chief to discuss federal programs for landowners
Michael P. Dombeck, chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and former acting director of the federal Bureau of Land Management, will speak on the role of the Forest Service in helping private landowners manage non-federal lands on Monday, Nov. 10. His talk, sponsored by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale Forest Forum, will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Bowers Lecture Hall of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. The talk, and a reception which will follow, are free and open to the public.
Mr. Dombeck taught at public schools and universities before joining the Forest Service 15 years ago. He is noted for his research on muskies and lake habitat management. In his post as program manager for the Forest Service's National Fisheries Program, he was recognized for outstanding leadership in developing and implementing fisheries programs and forging partnerships.
He also served as a legislative fellow working in the U.S. Senate with responsibility for natural resource and interior appropriations issues. He was appointed acting director of the Bureau of Land Management in 1994; while serving in that post he oversaw management of 270 million acres of surface land and over 570 million acres of mineral estate