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 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, and provide dining privileges in the college at lunch, all so you can meet with students, faculty, and friends. Please join us - we welcome you!
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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
Biography
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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.
Interests:
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.
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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!
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Sr. Jenn Schaaf
Assistant Chaplain, Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University
Biography
Sr. Jenn, a native of Washington State, is a Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, New York. She holds a B.A. in Music Education, a Masters in Pastoral Ministry from the University of Portland, Oregon, a certificate in Spiritual Direction from Aquinas Institute of Theology, and a Doctor of Ministry from Seattle University. Before joining the team, she served in campus ministry at Ohio Dominican University where her emphasis was on liturgical music, retreats and developing alternative break programs. Her focus is to engage students in shared leadership and spiritual development. She joined the Saint Thomas More pastoral team in 2013.
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John Schotland
Professor of Mathematics
Biography
John C. Schotland is Professor of Mathematics at Yale. Previously, he was Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, where he was also the founding director of the Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics (MCAIM). He received the MD and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Interests:
Mathematical physics
Christine Scriabine
Historical Consultant
Biography
Christine Scriabine received her PhD in American Civilization at Brown University. She began her career teaching at Pennsylvania State University but quickly changed her focus upon arriving in New Haven when she had the opportunity to help the University of Hartford ultimately realize a new museum, The Museum of American Political Life. Currently, Professor Scriabine is doing historical consulting and freelance writing.
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Eliza Shaw Valk
Architect
Biography
Eliza is an artist and landscape architect. She works at the landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand and aims to bring design excellence to New Haven’s public spaces. She’s project manager for the Mill River Trail, currently under construction, which travels through the center of the city, connecting East Rock Park to Long Island Sound. Not far from the river Eliza runs an art studio exploring the intersection of light and form in large-scale installations. Through massing and reordering mundane, often rejected, materials, her work explores structure and improvisation, the materials acting as registrations of mechanical processes and the mechanism for capturing transitory events. Eliza holds two master’s degrees, in landscape architecture and city planning, from Penn. She was trained as a dancer and her B.A., from Oberlin, is in visual and performing arts.
Kevin Sheth, MD
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery; Executive Director of the NNCTU and Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Director, Yale Center for Brain & Mind Health.; Division Chief, Neurocritical
Biography
Dr. Kevin Sheth is a founding Director of the Yale Center for Brain & Mind Health and the founding Chief of the Division of Neurocritical Care & Emergency Neurology. He leads prevention efforts in neurologically vulnerable populations and works towards advancing therapies for acute brain injury such as stroke and brain hemorrhage. In pioneering the development of new strategies to treat brain swelling, his work has changed the fundamental approach to brain injury in the ICU and spurred the creation of new technologies in drug delivery and neuroimaging. Highly collaborative, interdisciplinary efforts from the lab have culminated in the first phase III trial to prevent brain swelling in stroke, the first phase III NIH funded prevention trial in brain hemorrhage, and the deployment of the first portable bedside MRI for brain injury in the world. His team at Yale has served as a national model for academic critical care neurology units.
For full bio: https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/kevin-sheth/
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Sangini S. Sheth, MD, MPH, FACOG
Obstetrician & Gynecologist Physician / Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Biography
Sangini S. Sheth, MD, MPH, FACOG is associate professor and associate chief for the Division of Gynecologic Specialties, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine. She is the inaugural Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the department and a member of Yale School of Medicine’s diversity officer council. Sangini graduated from Yale University (Morse College) and received her MD and MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Interests:
Dr. Sheth’s clinical and public health backgrounds have guided her research interests in optimizing reproductive health awareness, access, and care among marginalized groups. Sangini is an NIH and CDC-funded investigator. Her current work focuses on applying implementation science to cervical cancer prevention across the care continuum from uptake of the HPV vaccine, to increasing cervical cancer screening and follow up of abnormal results, and guideline-concordant evidence-based management locally and globally, with projects in New Haven, Mexico and Nepal. Dr. Sheth has been awarded a number of teaching awards and has also been recognized for her patient care.