Federal administrator to discuss teenage drug use trends
"Trends in Teenage Drug Use" will be the subject of a talk by Anna Marsh, deputy director of the Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Human Services, on Friday,
Sept. 18. Her talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at noon in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. It is part of the weekly lecture series sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy.
Marsh has worked as a federal public policy administrator in the area of substance abuse and mental health for 13 years. She works closely with the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse and will discuss its latest findings. She earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Yale in 1985 and was affiliated with Bush Center as a postdoctoral fellow 1978-84.
For further information, call 432-9935.
Alleviating world hunger is topic of anthropologist's talk
Ellen Messer, associate professor at Brown University and director of the school's Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, will assess the role of agrobiotechnology in alleviating the problem of world hunger in two talks on campus on Wednesday, Sept. 16.
At noon, she will explore the question "Can Agrobiotechnology Overcome the Problems of World Hunger?" at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), 77 Prospect St. The seminar is open to members of the Yale community. At 7:30 p.m., she will address the same topic in a free public lecture at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. Her talks are part of a year-long seminar series sponsored jointly by ISPS and Yale Hillel on the topic "Bioethics and Public Policy."
Messer, who taught in Yale's anthropology department 1975-83, is a food-and-nutrition anthropologist whose research focuses on agrobiotechnologies for the developing world, hunger and conflict, and hunger and human rights. She has done extensive fieldwork in Mexican villages. She is coeditor and coauthor of "The Hunger Report, 1995," "Who's Hungry? Food Shortage, Poverty and Deprivation" and "Trying Technology, Neither Sure nor Soon."
British executive to talk
about leading global company
John Browne, group chief executive of The British Petroleum Company p.I.c. (BP), will give a talk on Friday, Sept. 18, on the topic "Leading a Global Company: The Case of BP." His talk, part of the Perspectives on Leadership Program at the School of Management, will begin at 10 a.m. in Rm. 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. It is free and open to the public.
Browne joined BP as a university apprentice in 1966 and held a variety of exploration and production posts in Anchorage, New York, San Francisco, London and in Canada before he become group treasurer and chief executive of BP Finance International in 1984. Five years later, he was named managing director and chief executive officer of BP Exploration, based in London. In 1991, he was appointed to the board of BP as a managing director. He became group chief executive of the company in 1995. He was knighted in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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