Kay Redfield Jamison
March 2, 2001
Mental health expert Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., will deliver a lecture, "An Unquiet Mind: Personal and Professional Reflections on Mental Illness," at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series.
Kay Redfield Jamison |
Jamison is professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the co-author of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness, which was chosen in 1990 as the Most Outstanding Book in Biomedical Sciences by the American Association of Publishers.
She is the author or co-author of five books and approximately 100 scientific publications about mood disorders, suicide, psychotherapy and lithium. Her memoir, "An Unquiet Mind," which details her own experience with manic-depressive illness, was selected by The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as one of the best books of 1995. "An Unquiet Mind," currently under development as a feature film, was on The New York Times Best Seller List for more than five months. Her most recent book is "Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide" (1999).
Jamison, formerly the director of the UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic, was selected as a UCLA "Woman of Science." She was one of five individuals featured in the public television series "Great Minds of Medicine," and chosen by Time magazine as a "Hero of Medicine."
Jamison conducted her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow, University of California Cook Scholar, John F. Kennedy Scholar, United States Public Health Service Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, and UCLA Graduate Woman of the Year.
She also studies zoology and neurophysiology at the University of St. Andrew in Scotland.
William Provine, Ph.D., professor of the history of biology at Cornell University, will deliver the annual Thomas Hall Lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday in Rebstock Hall Room 215 as part of the Assembly Series.
 William Provine |
Provine earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1962. After a brief stint teaching middle school science, he returned to that university and earned a master's degree in the history of science in 1965 and a doctorate in 1970. In 1969, Provine joined the faculty at Cornell University and is now the Charles Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Provine has written several books, including "Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology" (1989). He has also edited books such as "Evolution: Selected Papers" (1986) and "The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology" (1998).
His current research interests include a history of the theories of neutral molecular evolution; a history of geneticists' attitudes toward human race differences and race crossing; implications of modern biology for free will, moral responsibility and the foundations of ethics; and a history of ideas about speciation from 1963 to the present.
Both lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-5285 or visit the Assembly Series Web page (http://wupa.wustl.edu/assembly).
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