Harvard professor to give lecture

William Julius Wilson, director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, will present the Charles F. Bonser Distinguished Lecture in Public Policy at 4 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union, according to a press release.\nThe lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be on "Welfare, Children and Families: The Impact of Welfare Reform in the New Economy."\nWilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard, is the past president of the American Sociological Association and was chosen four years ago by Time magazine as one of America's 25 Most Influential People. \nThe recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1998, the nation's highest scientific honor, Wilson has received 32 honorary degrees from such institutions as Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth, the release said. He is also a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships, the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences and The Century Foundation.\nThe Bonser Distinguished Lectures in Public Policy are sponsored by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Kelley School of Business. The lecture series honors the founding dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and is intended to inform the IU community about public affairs issues.