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Harvard professor, explorer to present James P.
Holland Memorial Lecture on Monday
Oct. 3, 2001
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Harvard Medical School Professor S. Allen Counter will
deliver the second annual James P. Holland Memorial Lecture at Indiana
University Bloomington on Monday (Oct. 8) at 4 p.m. The lecture, on "Matthew
Henson and the North Pole Secret," will take place in Jordan Hall Auditorium,
with a reception immediately following.
Counter, an expert on ethics in science, international human rights, and lead
and mercury poisoning, also is a professional explorer. His scientific and
cultural missions have led him to remote sites in South America and Greenland.
His studies of Matthew Henson, the African American explorer of the Arctic, have
led to a revival of interest in the pioneering exploits of Henson and Robert
Peary, with whom Henson explored the North Pole in 1909.
As a result of Counter's efforts, Henson was honored by the National
Geographic Society. His remains were moved to Arlington National Cemetery by
presidential order.
The Holland lecture series is named for the late James P. Holland, longtime
professor of biology at IU Bloomington and winner of every major teaching award
the campus offers. Holland, who died of cancer in 1998, was awarded the first
Chancellor's Medallion by now-retired IU Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth R.R.
Gros Louis in recognition of his extraordinary efforts on behalf of the campus.
The Holland Lecture Series is presented in his memory by the Department of
Biology, the Office of the Vice President for Student Development and Diversity,
and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
During his 30-plus years at IU, Holland taught more than 11,000 students,
served as associate and interim dean of the University Graduate School, and was
active in virtually every mentoring and enrichment program the campus offered,
including Groups, summer institutes and tutoring of athletes.
In addition to the lecture series, the Department of Biology sponsors the
James P. Holland Graduate Fellowship in Biology, awarded to a first-year Ph.D.
student drawn from any population under-represented in the life sciences. The
fellowship provides stipend, tuition and health insurance during the first year
of graduate training.
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)