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!
Leonard K. Kaczmarek
Professor of Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Biography
Len Kaczmarek is a Professor of Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine. He carried out his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of London and carried out research at the University of California at Los Angeles, the Free University of Brussels, Belgium and the California Institute of Technology before joining the Yale faculty in 1981.He served as Chairman of the Yale Department of Pharmacology from 1989 to 1998. Professor Kaczmarek’s laboratory studies the biochemical changes that occur within neurons to produce prolonged changes in the behavior of an animal. In particular, his group discovered the genes for many of the ion channel proteins that are directly responsible for the electrical excitability of nerve cells. He is currently investigating the way mutations in these proteins in humans are responsible for several forms of intellectual disability and autism. Prof. Kaczmarek has authored or edited several books, and is co-author of the textbook The Neuron.
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Prof. Kaczmarek plays guitar in several music groups, including the: “Cellmates” a Yale-based rock band, specializing in the “bio-rock” genre, as well as in two jazz ensembles.
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Konrad Kaczmarek
Associate Professor Adjunct of Music
Biography
Konrad Kaczmarek is on the faculty in the Department of Music at Yale University, where he teaches courses in composition, music technology, and instrument design. He is Co-Director of Yale College New Music, Associate Director of the YalMusT Music Technology Labs, and has a joint appointment as Lecturer in Sound Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He holds degrees from Princeton University (Ph.D. in Music, 2015), University of London, Goldsmiths (M.Mus in Electroacoustic Composition, 2003), and Yale University (B.A. in Music, 2002).
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Peggy Edersheim Kalb
Senior Editor, Yale Alumni Magazine
Biography
Peggy Edersheim Kalb is an ’86 Morse College graduate. Over more than three decades as a journalist, she has written for the Wall Street Journal and New York magazine among others, produced shows for CNN Business News and was Chief Editor for the G-20 when the meetings were held in South Korea.
She currently resides with her family in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Joshua Kalla
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University
Biography
Joshua Kalla is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University with a secondary appointment as Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science. He was a Yale undergraduate (MC 2014) and received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (2018). He studies political persuasion, prejudice reduction, and decision-making among voters and political elites, primarily through the use of randomized field experiments, often in partnership with political campaigns and non-profit organizations.
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David L. Katz
Director, Prevention Research Center
Biography
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Dr. Katz is into health promotion, equestrian pursuits, creative writing, philosophy, carpentry, inventing, skiing, and journalism.
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Paula Kavathas, PhD
Professor at Yale Medical School
Biography
Professor Paula Kavathas received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin and was a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University before joining the Yale Medical School faculty in 1986. ). She is currently Vice Chair for Diversity in the Departments of Immunobiology and of Laboratory Medicine. Her passions are research, science literacy, and gender equity. Towards these goals: (i) she teaches two undergraduate Courses, MCDB 050 “Immunology and Microorganisms” and MCDB 109 “Immunity and Contagion”, (ii) is a member of the SWIM (status of women in medicine) executive board and (iii) collaborates studying acquired resistance in cancer immunotherapy. She is also an institutional leader for Yale’s membership in a network of 40 universities called CIRTL working to train the next generation of science faculty in effective pedagogy for diverse learners.
Interests:
Sharing meals with family and friends, singing, and reading.
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Frank Keil
Professor
Biography
Frank Keil, former Master of Morse College, came to Yale after 21 years at Cornell University. He has been on the faculty in the Psychology department since 1998. Currently he is the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology and is the Chair of the department. After his BS at MIT in 1973, he went on to get his MA from Stanford in ‘75 and PhD in Psychology from University of Pennsylvania in ‘77. Professor Keil teaches an undergraduate lecture course in Developmental Psychology as well as undergraduate seminars in various topics in Cognitive Science. His recent work focuses on how children and adults grasp the causal structure of the world around them and how they cope with explanatory gaps.
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Prof. Keil pursues cognitive science, science education, cognitive development, concepts and conceptual change. He also enjoys a lifelong interest in all aspects of sailing.
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Cate Kellett
Catalog and Government Documents Librarian
Biography
Ms. Kellett graduated from Cornell University in 2005 with a B.A. in Spanish, History, and Latin American Studies. She earned her M.A. in Spanish Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from SUNY Albany in 2007. She then went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2010 with a JD/M.A. in Library and Information Science. Currently she works as a Catalog and Government Documents Librarian at Yale Law School, and is the personal librarian to 40 Morsels each year.
Interests:
Ms. Kellett is interested in Native American Law and yoga.
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Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health
Biography
Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale School of Public Health and an executive committee member of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies. He is co-founder of Yale Violence and Health Study Group and a faculty member of the Program on Conflict, Resiliency and Health at the Yale McMillan Center. Dr. Khoshnood is trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has more than two decades of domestic and international experience in HIV prevention research among drug users and other at-risk populations, including its ethical aspects. Dr. Khoshnood is the Principal Investigator of a NIH/Fogarty International Center Research Ethics Training and Curriculum Development Program with China. Dr. Khoshnood is actively engaged with several research projects in Lebanon with a broad focus on the epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS and substance use among Lebanese-born and displaced populations. Dr. Khoshnood teaches a course at Yale School of Public Health titled: Responding to Violent Conflict: Epidemiological Methods & Public Health Interventions which focuses on how epidemiological methods are applied to understand specific health consequences of violent conflicts, including infectious diseases, mental health, maternal/child health, and chronic health problems. The course has a focus on the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Eugene Kimball
Recording Engineer/Lecturer Yale University School of Music - Retired
Biography
Attended Yale University School of Drama and School of Music
Recorded primarily Classical and Jazz music for 45 years
Taught the Art of Recording for 35 years as a lecturer
Interests:
Music, cabinet making, and photography