Fellows of Jonathan Edwards
Jonathon (Joe) HowardBio:Jonathon (Joe) Howard is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and a Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is best known for his research on motor proteins and the cytoskeleton, and the development of techniques for observing and manipulating individual biological molecules. Brought up in Australia, where he studied at the Australian National University, he has had a distinguished career in the United States, where he was a professor at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, and in Germany, where he was a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. In 2013 he returned to the United States where he enjoys teaching, writing and new research projects on cell motility and neuronal morphology. jonathon.howard@yale.edu |
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Shu HuBio:Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering |
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Lily HuBio:Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department |
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Jay HumphreyBio:John C. Malone of Biomedical Engineering |
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Zhen HuoBio:Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Farren IsaacsBio:Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology |
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K. David JacksonBio:K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese, has a special interest in speaking with students who would like to know more about Brazil, Portugal, the Lusophone world and literature in Portuguese. He has worked closely with the Sao Paulo concrete poets, studied with Portuguese poet Jorge de Sena. In addition to Brazil and Portugal, he has had the opportunity to do research and travel in Goa, Sri Lanka, Malacca & Macau. His work includes cultural contacts, Creole music and verse as well as major writers such as Pessoa, Camoes, Machado de Assis, and the Brazilian modernists. He is a cellist and interested in music, literature, ethnomusicology and chamber music performance. k.jackson@yale.edu |
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Tom JasinskiBio:Tom (JE ’78) is currently an Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) with the Office of Cooperative Research working with faculty innovators and the Yale Accelerator for Innovation Development (Y-AID) to advance early stage ventures. Previously he was an EIR with the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, forerunner of the Tsai CITY program, where he mentored a wide variety of student innovators and startup teams. Once upon a time, he was also one of the original JE Sux, the most powerful dynasty in the history of Yale intramural ice hockey. Today, he is delighted to talk with students interested in: their innovations, entrepreneurship and startup life; careers in consumer branding, international marketing and media; and the true value of a liberal arts education. |
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Martin JeanBio:Professor in the Institute of Sacred Music and of Music and Professor (Adjunct) of Divinity |
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Ron JenkinsBio:Ron Jenkins is a recipient of Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and an honorary Fellow of the Dante Society of America. His prison theater work in Indonesia, Italy, and the U.S. has been supported by the R.F. Kennedy Center for Huma n Rights, The Asian Cultural Council, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Jenkins has written books on theater and social justice as well as articles for The New York Times, The Jakarta Post, and The Yale ISM Review. He has translated and/or directed plays by the Nobel laureate Dario Fo for productions at the Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater at Harvard, and the New York Theatre Workshop. His documentary plays have been commissioned by the Mellon Foundation, the U.S. State Department, the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. A former Fellow at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, Jenkins teaches the course “Gospel, Rap, and Social Justice” at the Yale Divinity School. |