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President Jean Mayer
by Dean Michael Shinagel
Initiated a decade ago, the Lowell Lecture Series has been devoted to major issues of the 1980s. Previous Lowell lecturers have numbered McGeorge Bundy on foreign affairs, Alfred Kahn on inflation, Edwin Newman on preserving a civil tongue, Gloria Steinem on feminism and democracy, Carl Sagan on nuclear winter, Art Buchwald on Washington politics, Amiri Baraka on Afro-American culture, Frances FitzGerald on religious and utopian communities in the U.S., and Doris Kearns Goodwin on the issue of character and presidential politics. It is altogether fitting that we end the decade with tonight's speaker: Dr. Jean Mayer, president of Tufts University and an international authority on nutrition, who will address us on national and international issues in food policy.
Dr. Mayer completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Paris, his Ph.D. in physiological chemistry at Yale University, and his D.Sc. in physiology from The Sorbonne. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1950, serving as Professor of Nutrition, Lecturer on the History of Public Health, member of the Center of Population Studies, and Master of Dudley House. In 1976, he was appointed the tenth president of Tufts University. Dr. Mayer is the author of more than 750 scientific papers and several books, including Human Nutrition, Nutrition Policies in the '70s, A Diet for Living, and Nutrition Policy in a Changing World. He has served on countless national and world health organizations, including UNICEF, and as chairman of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the French Academy of Medicine, Dr. Mayer has been awarded 16 honorary degrees, numerous medals, prizes, and awards for his work.
Dr. Mayer happily is no stranger to the Harvard Extension School, for his wife, Betty, is an Extension alumna and Dr. Mayer presented her with her Harvard Extension diploma while serving as master of Dudley House in June of 1976. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming back to Harvard a distinguished scientist, educator, and citizen of the world: Jean Mayer.
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