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Neilly Series, 2007-2008
September 25 - Craig Wolff '79
The author will discuss his forthcoming biography of Willie Mays, tracing the life of the great
baseball player from segregated Birmingham to the Major Leagues. Wolff will also discuss his
last book, My Heart Will Cross This Ocean. Written with the mother of Amadou Diallo, an
African man who died in a hail of 41 bullets fired by New York City police officers, My Heart
won a 2004 Christopher Award, honoring work that "lifts the human spirit."
Wolff is an award-winning author, a former reporter for The New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize
winner and an innovator in the way journalists approach their work. Through his writing and
teaching, he has focused on lifting the people who inhabit stories and books out of the
caricature that plagues so much of modern journalism.
A former sports, news, and feature writer for The New York Times, Wolff was part of the team awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. He is an Associate Professor in
journalism at New York University and a UR graduate. Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, at 5
p.m.
October 19 - Barbara Olshansky '82
She went before the Supreme Court and won. In 2004, she successfully argued that detainees
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be able to challenge their detention in US federal court. This
case, The New York Times wrote, was "the most important civil liberties case in half a century."
Olshansky recently left the Center for Constitutional Rights for the Stanford Law School's
International Law Clinic Program, where she helped to create an International Human Rights
Program. She is engaged in the International Justice Network. Olshansky is the author of
Democracy Detained; Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the US War on Terror and Secret
Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy and co-author of
America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the "War on Terror." HawkinsCarlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, at 3 p.m.
November 8 - Theresa Thanjan '94
Thajan is an award winning filmmaker and activist. Her documentary Whose Children Are
These? provides a gripping view into the lives of three Muslim teenagers negatively impacted
by domestic national security measures. One such program, "Special Registration," required
male non-citizens, as young as 16, from twenty-five countries to register with the Department
of Justice; a program that resulted in the deportation of nearly 14,000 men. The film
introduces Navila, an honors student who fought to have her father released from detention;
Sarfaraz, a popular basketball player who confronts pending deportation; and Hager, a young
woman who faces bias and is spurred to activism as a result.
Thanjan received her film training from NYU and Film/Video Arts. She is a 2006 Fellow in Video
at the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library at 5
p.m.
February 21 - Tom Lewis
Lewis will discuss his latest book The Hudson: A History. He is also author of Empire of the Air:
The Men Who Made Radio and Divided Highways: The Interstate Highway System and the
Transformation of American Life. Mr. Lewis has also consulted on, written, and produced a
number of documentary films for public television, including four documentaries with Ken
Burns. His films have won numerous awards including a George Foster Peabody Award for
Broadcasting Excellence, an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and
�Sciences for Outstanding Historical Programming, and first place from the New England Film
Festival. Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, at 5 p.m.
March 26 - Ronald Calinger
Professor of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, Calinger will
discuss the mathematician Leonhard Euler. The Swiss-born genius is one of the four greatest
mathematicians in history. This synopsis of his life, research, and influence set within the
framework of the European Enlightenment begins with a review of his education in Basel.
Euler's Berlin period includes his invention of the calculus of variations, his relations with
Frederick the Great, his pulse theory in optics, and his rivalry with Alexis Clairaut and Jean
d'Alembert over lunar theory. His second period in St. Petersburg includes his third lunar
theory and his contributions to integral calculus and magic squares.
Calinger is the author of A Contextual History of Mathematics,1999, the editor of Classics of
Mathematics, 1995, Vita Mathematica, 1996, and the History of Mathematics Series of Johns
Hopkins University Press. Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, at 5 p.m.
April 16 - Paul R. Bowser
Bowser, professor of Aquatic and Animal Medicine at Cornell, will discuss "Viral Hemorrhagic
Septicemia in Fish in the Great Lakes Basin." Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) is an
emerging viral disease of fish in the Great Lakes ecosystem. In 2006, the virus was
documented for the first time in New York State in round gobies in the St. Lawrence River. As
a World Animal Health Organization Reportable Pathogen, the documentation of this virus has
interstate and international trade implications for fish and fish products. In response to the
finding, the USDA issued an Emergency Order that restricts the interstate movement of 37
species of fish within the 8 states bordering the Great Lakes and restricts the movement of the
same 37 species of fish from Ontario and Quebec into the US. While VHS has a relatively long
history in Europe, the disease found in the Great Lakes is behaving differently, having the
capability to infect a large number of different fish species.
While most cases of VHS have been in fish originating from the Great Lakes, cases in fish from Conesus and
Skaneateles Lakes have been found recently. A big concern is whether the virus will find its way into other bodies
of water that are not part of the contiguous Great Lakes. Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, at 5
p.m.
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<span>Bowser, professor of Aquatic and Animal Medicine at Cornell, will discuss "Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia in Fish in the Great Lakes Basin." Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) is an emerging viral disease of fish in the Great Lakes ecosystem. In 2006, the virus was documented for the first time in New York State in round gobies in the St. Lawrence River. As a World Animal Health Organization Reportable Pathogen, the documentation of this virus has interstate and international trade implications for fish and fish products. In response to the finding, the USDA issued an Emergency Order that restricts the interstate movement of 37 species of fish within the 8 states bordering the Great Lakes and restricts the movement of the same 37 species of fish from Ontario and Quebec into the US. While VHS has a relatively long history in Europe, the disease found in the Great Lakes is behaving differently, having the capability to infect a large number of different fish species.<br /></span><br /><span>While most cases of VHS have been in fish originating from the Great Lakes, cases in fish from Conesus and Skaneateles Lakes have been found recently. A big concern is whether the virus will find its way into other bodies of water that are not part of the contiguous Great Lakes.</span>
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