Morse Fellows
Morse College is a vibrant community. We would love to count you among us. The Fellows meet a few times per semester at the Head of College’s house, to interact with friends from all parts of the University and from the broader community. Many play the role of Advisor for a student or two. We extend invitations to student functions such as performances and college-wide social events, welcome participation at intramural sports, provide dining privileges in the college at lunch or dinner, all so you can meet with students, faculty and friends. Please join us - we welcome you!
Paula Rawlins
Assistant Director, Yale College Writing Center, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
Biography
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Paula’s academic interests include writing center and composition studies; anti-racist, feminist, and contemplative pedagogy; Southern literature; fat studies; and music therapy. She lives in Hamden, CT with her incredible husband Wes, bulldog Sam, and cat Peaches. Wes and Paula enjoy attending concerts and comedy shows and traveling whenever and wherever possible. Paula is proud to be a first-generation college student and enjoys mentoring (and cheering on!) students as they work toward their academic and personal goals.
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Nathaniel Raymond
Lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Biography
Nathaniel A. Raymond is a Lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. His research interests have focused on the human rights and human security implications of information communication technologies (ICTs) for vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of armed conflict. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012 – 2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan. Raymond was Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights from 2008 – 2010, leading investigations into the role of US health professionals in the Bush Administration’s “enhanced” interrogation program.
He previously was a humanitarian aid worker with Oxfam America, serving in the field in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and the US Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Raymond has conducted joint research with multiple United Nations agencies into the role of ICTs and digital data, including remote sensing, in improving the protection of civilian populations and the delivery of humanitarian assistance. He served as a consultant in early warning of mass atrocities to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in South Sudan in 2015. Raymond was a 2013 Poptech Social Innovation Fellow, a 2010 Rockwood Leadership Human Rights and National Security Reform Fellow, and a co-recipient of the 2012 US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Industry Intelligence Achievement Award.
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Lonnie Reed
Chair the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Green Bank
Biography
After ten years in the CT House of Representatives where she Chaired the Energy and Technology Committee Lonnie Reed chose not to run again for re-election. She is now Chair the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Green Bank, having been appointed by Governor Lamont. Connecticut created the nation’s first Green Bank, which has had remarkable success helping to fast track renewable energy with a host of innovative programs and incentives that attract considerable private investment to make public dollars go much farther. The federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) recently enacted by the US Congress, includes a national Green Bank provision modeled on the Connecticut Green Bank. The Green Bank is mission driven and one of its key objectives is to bring equity and justice to communities long afflicted with toxic air, unhealthy housing, Asthma epidemics - all the dirty energy results of discriminatory public policy decisions.
Prior to becomeing a CT State Representative, Ms. Reed has had a career as a journalist, a political talk show host, and as President of Iger/Reed, a production company for documentaries and TV network specials.
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Rep. Reed is deeply involved in a wide variety of public policy issues and in promoting public engagement in the political process.
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Mindy Jane Roseman
Director of International Law Programs and Director of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights
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Daniel E. Rosner
Research Professor, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Biography
Dan Rosner, Emeritus and Research Professor, was a Professor and formerly Chairman of Yale’s Department of Chemical Engineering. Dan Joined the Yale faculty in 1969 after 11 years of industrial research, having completed his BS in Mechanical Engineering at CCNY and Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering at Princeton University. During his academic career, Professor Rosner developed/taught advanced engineering courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, and directed the Ph.D. research in convective energy-and molecular species-transport, fine particle technology, and combustion. He published over 240 papers on these topics and the award-winning book Transport Processes in Chemically Reacting Flow Systems.
Professor Rosner also studied graphic arts/printmaking at the High School of Music & Art in NYC, graduating as August St. Gaudens Medalist in 1951. His art went on hold until the ‘70’s when he resumed printmaking at New Haven’s Creative Arts Workshop. His work has been published in Science magazine and The New York Times. Currently a member of the New Haven Paint & Clay, and the Hamden Art League, he is planning shows at Yale in October 2014, Orange, CT, and Woodbridge, CT both in 2015.
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Prof. Rosner would be pleased to meet with and advise Yale College students interested in (or considering) majoring in our School of Engineering, as well as recent alumni.
He is also interested in helping to organize/mount art exhibits (for the Morse College Gallery) by students and faculty/scholars associated with Morse College.
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David A. Ross, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta and Associate Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry at Yale
Biography
Dr. Ross is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Prior to this role, he was Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and Associate Training Director of their Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, and still holds this position as an adjunct. The primary focus of his scholarly activities is on designing, implementing, and disseminating innovative educational resources. He is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative, the goal of which is to help integrate cutting-edge neuroscience into psychiatry. Through this work, he has helped create a set of shared curriculum resources that are now in use at more than 200 programs around the world.
Interests:
Dr. Ross is happy to speak with folks about medical school, neuroscience, psychiatry, PTSD, music and the brain, residency programs, etc. He’d be even happier to talk about rock climbing, trail running, or Yale hockey!