2001 Assembly of Delegates:
Nominees for Director - Northeast Region

November 10-12, 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico
In conjunction with the Sigma Xi Forum, November 9-10, 2000

Name: Robert Milton Woodrow Frederking

Present Position: Manager, Business Development
Organization: Canadian Hydraulics Centre, National Research Council Canada

Address: 2030 Woodglen Cr.
Ottawa, ON K1J 6G4
Canada

Telephone: 613-993-2439
FAX: 613-952-7679
E-mail: robert.frederking@nrc.ca

Chapter Affiliation: Ottawa

Candidate's Statement: I am honoured to be nominated for the positon of Regional Director. For the majority of Sigma Xi members, American Scientist is their main link to the society. A much small number participate in Chapter activites. I see the Chapter as the key to the continuing strength of the Society as a whole, since it is here that new members are recruited, active participation developed and Society activities at all levels supported. Regions provide a way to encourage Chapter activity.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: President, Ottawa Chapter ( 1999-2001); member Ottawa Chapter Executive (1995-1999), Ottawa Chapter Delegate to Annual Meeting (1999, 2000), Member, Sigma Xi Fund of Canada (2000-01). Other: Member, Board of Directors, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering (1997-2001); Editor, Cold Regions Science and Technology (1991-95).

Biographical Information: Robert M.W. Frederking, Cold Regions Engineering. Education: U. of Alberta, B.Sc. (Engineering) 1964; U. of London, M.Sc. (Applied Mechanics) 1966; U of Illinois, Ph.D. (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) 1968. Work: Defence Research Board of Canada, 1968-70; National Research Council Canada, Division of Building Research (1970-89), Division of Mechanical Engineering (1989-95), Canadian Hydraulics Centre (1995-2001); Hamburg Ship Model Basin (1976-77). Memberships: Sigma Xi, Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canadian Standards Association, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering. Research: mechanical properties of ice, determination of ice forces on fixed offshore structures and ships.

Name: Christopher Stephen Lange

Present Position: Professor of Radiation Oncology, Physiology & Biophysics
Organization: SUNY Downstate Medical Center (HSCB)

Address: SUNY Downstate Medical Ctr
450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 1212
Brooklyn, NY 11203
USA

Telephone: (718) 270-1050
Fax: (718) 270-1608
E-mail: clange@downstate.edu

Chapter Affiliation: SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn (Downstate)

Candidate's Statement: Declining membership is our most critical problem. Therefore, I have been active in getting moving members notified of Chapters in their new locality and vice versa, and in creating our new governance structure (all Board members now elected). I have also played a lead role in making it feasible for Sigma Xi to expand into 2nd and 3rd word countries at costs affordable to their members without need for subsidy from North American members. If reelected, I shall continue to organize a Regional Web site & to develop a list of member expertise so chapters can use it to invite local lecturers, pre-peer-review of planed grant applications, etc., as an enhancement of our visiting lecturer program. I shall also try to develop a regional committee to organize political support for increased funding of scientific research by our State/Provincial and Federal/National governments. Some of our chapters are already doing this.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: Sigma Xi: NE Regional Director (1999 - 2002), Internat'`l Comt (99-02), NE Regional Nominating Committee (1997 - 99), Member: Sigma Xi (1981 - date), Chapter Treasurer (1991 - date), Organized Ann. Disting. Lecturers & Lect series, Organized High School student and teacher summer research apprenticeships (1991-96); PI on NIH grant to fund under-represented minorities in this program (92-96). Other: Member: Amer. Coll. Radiol. Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (1991 - date). Recipient, Certificate of Gratitude for Contributions to Science, Presidential Distinguished Lecturer, University of Hirosaki, Japan (1979). Hon. Member, Omicron Delta Epsilon (International Economics Honor Society) (1978). Memb Exec Comt Nassau Cty Natl Political Party (1988- date).

Biographical Information: LANGE, CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN, RADIATION BIOPHYSICS, GENOME STRUCTURE. Current Pos: PROF RADIATION ONCOL & DIR RADIATION RES, COL MED, STATE UNIV NY HEALTH SCI CTR BROOKLYN, 80-, PROF PHYSIOL & BIOPHYSICS, SCH GRAD STUDIES, 92- Personal Data: b Chicago, Ill, Feb 11, 40; m 64, 73, Eleanor E Gitlin; c Tamara A & Theodore O. Educ: Mass Inst Technol, Cambridge, BS, 61; Oxford Univ, Eng, DPhil, 68. Prof Exp: MRC res asst radiobiol, Churchill Hosp, Headington, Oxford, 61-62; NHS res officer radiobiol, Christie Hosp & Holt Radium Inst, Manchester, Eng, 62-68, NHS sr res officer, 68-69; asst prof radiol, radiobiol, biophys, Sch Med & Dent, Univ Rochester, 69-80. Concurrent Pos: Prin Investr, Grants USDOE, NSF, NCI, NIGMS, Mathers Found, etc. 72-; vis radiobiologist, Am Inst Biol Sci, 73-79; vis prof chem, Univ Calif San Diego, 75-76; presidential distinguished lectr, Univ Hirosaki, Japan, 79; guest scientist, Brookhaven Nat Lab, 83-; translational res comt mem, Radiation Ther Oncol Group, Nat Proj, NIH/NCI, 88-; scholar adv comt, Kosciuszko Found, 89-; res career develop award, USDHEW/NCI, 72-77; NIH/Div res Grants, Special Study Sect-2, 93- Mem: Radiation Res Soc; Biophys Soc; Sigma Xi; NY Acad Sci; AAAS. Res: Molecular and cellular bases of cellular and organisimal radiation effects and aging; DNA damage and repair; DNA structure in mammalian chromosomes; viscoelastometry and other hydodynamic behavior of DNA; differentiation control (polarity) in tissues; assays for improved cancer therapy. Mailing Add: State Univ NY Downstate Med Ctr, 450 Clarkson Ave, Box 1212, Brooklyn NY 11203

Name: Richard Burnett Peterson

Present Position: Full Scientist
Organization: The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Address: Dept of Biochem and Genetics
123 Huntington Street
New Haven, CT 06511
USA

Telephone: 203-974-8463
FAX: 203-974-8502
E-mail: Richard.Peterson@po.state.ct.us

Chapter Affiliation: Quinnipiac

Candidate's Statement: An individual’s choice to participate in any organization has to be based on a convergence of his interests and values with those of the membership-at-large. A troubling fact-of-life for all scientists is that, despite our advances as a society, our public seems surprisingly receptive to superstition, fuzzy logic, hype, and antiscience zealotry. Sigma Xi, with its diversity of professional expertise and commitment to education, should build on its accomplishments and act as a powerful voice for science in public enlightenment and policy leadership. I would encourage the Society to take on a more visible role in these areas.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: I joined the Quinnipiac Chapter of Sigma Xi in 1995 and have served as Vice President of the Chapter since 1996. Over this period I have assisted in assembly of the Chapter newsletter. In 1999 I had the distinct pleasure of representing the Chapter as Delegate to the Annual Meeting. Since 1999 I have served on the Nominating Committee of the Northeast Region. Other memberships include the American Society of Plant Biologists and AAAS.

Biographical Information: 1971: Bachelor of Arts in Biology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1976: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,1976-1978: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University 1978-1979: Postdoctoral Research Associate, C.F. Kettering Research Laboratory, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1979-present: Assistant, Associate, and currently Full Scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut. Listed in Strathmore’s Who’s Who My current research activities center on regulation of light harvesting for photosynthesis in higher plants. This involves application of gas exchange, fluorescence, and in vivo absorbance techniques. Use of the Arabidopsis model system has enabled a molecular and genomic dimension to this project. As an employee of a state Agricultural Experiment Station I am committed to making my research interesting and relevant to, not only other professionals, but also ordinary citizens. Hence, my duties include occasional presentations to the agricultural and environmental constituencies of our state.