Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturers, 1996 - 1997
Each lecturer has designated his or her topic(s) for three different types of audiences. Where more than one level is shown, the lecture can be adjusted to the needs of the audience:
- P (Public)
Aimed at presenting scientific issues of general concern to a public audience. - G (General)
Intended for a normal Sigma Xi audience of both scientists and other scholars representing a broad range of disciplines. - S (Specialized)
Aimed at scientists and students in fields that are closely related to that of the lecturer.
Daniel L. Akins
Department of Chemistry
City College of New York
138th Street at Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
(212) 650-6953
Fax: (212) 650-6848
Unavailable: September 15-30
Self-assembled Molecular Structures involving Cyanine Dyes and Porphyrins (G)
Superradiance from Molecular Aggregates (G)
Daniel L. Akins is a professor of chemistry at the City College of the City University of New York. He holds a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, under the mentorship of Dr. C. Bradley Moore. Previously Dr. Akins was a senior scientist at the Polaroid Corporation and the visiting program director of the physical chemistry subsection of the Chemical Dynamics Program at the National Science Foundation. His efforts aimed at increasing minorities in science and engineering, includes chairing groups such as the National Alliance of Research Centers of Excellence (NARCE) and a City College effort coordinating extramurally funded outreach programs. Dr. Akins' interests include spectroscopic and dynamical investigations of spontaneous and nonlinear laser Raman scattering by dye molecules; excited state dynamics and photophysical parameters involving electron-transfer reactions; and spectroscopic studies of biological tissues and herbs.
Rama Bansil
Physics Department
Boston University
590 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 353-2969
Fax: (617) 353-9393
E-mail: rb@buphy.bu.edu
Unavailable: August
Why Doesn't the Stomach Digest Itself? (G,S)
Gels from Jello to Gelcaps (G,S)
Kinetics of Phase Separation in Polymer Solutions and Gels (S)
Rama Bansil obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and conducted her postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She joined the faculty of Boston University in 1977 and is currently an associate professor in the physics department. She also holds an appointment in the physiology department of the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Bansil was a Science Scholar at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College (199394). Her research focuses on the areas of polymer physics and biophysics. She has applied statistical-mechanics methods and laser and phase-transition phenomena in polymeric solutions and gels. Her current biophysics work is concerned with the study of biological gels in relation to the problem of how the stomach prevents against self-digestion and to the nucleation of gallstones.
Ara S. Basmajian
Department of Mathematics
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
(405) 325-2390
Fax: (405) 325-7484
E-mail: abasmajian@nsfuvax.math.uoknor.edu
Hyperbolic Geometry and the Imagination (G,S)
Knots, Hyperbolic Geometry, and DNA (G,S)
Ara Basmajian received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. His research interests include hyperbolic manifolds, Riemann surfaces, and low-dimensional topology/geometry. A recipient of many NSF grants, his most recent grant involves computer graphics visualization. He has authored numerous publications including: Constructing Pairs of Pants in Ann. Acad. Sci. Fennicae and The Geometry of Totally Geodesic Hypersurfaces in Hyperbolic Manifolds' in the Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics. He is a member of the Pi Mu Epsilon Honor Society and the American Mathematical Society.
Chris Brinegar
Department of Biological Sciences
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0100
(408) 924-4839
Fax: (408) 924-4840
E-mail: brinegar@biomail.sjsu.edu
Unavailable: August 25-September 5,
December 12-20, January 20-28,
May 12-20
Genetic Engineering in the Supermarket, or Good-bye Cardboard Tomato! (P,G)
A Rainforest 40-Stories Tall: The History and Ecology of the California Redwoods (P,G)
Population and Taxonomic Studies on the California Coast Redwood using DNA Fingerprinting and Sequencing (G,S)
Chris Brinegar holds a B.S. in chemistry from Notre Dame, an M.S. in food science from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in crop physiology from Wisconsin. He was a research associate at an agricultural biotechnology company before joining the biology faculty at San Jose State University where he is now an associate professor. He also directs the SJSU Biotechnology Education and Research Institute and is a botany/ecology instructor with the university's Field Studies in Natural History program. Dr. Brinegar's interests range from agricultural biotechnology to forest ecology, and his current research involves the use of DNA fingerprinting to study the genetic diversity of the California coast redwoods.
David Bubenheim
NASA Ames Research Center, MS 239-15
Moffett Field, CA 94035
(415) 604-3209
Fax: (415) 604-1092
Plant Physiology in Life Support Systems for Earth and Beyond (S)
Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems: Space Exploration Tomorrow„Clean Water and Fresh Food Today (S,P,G)
Learning How to Live on Another Planet: The Controlled Ecological Life Support System Antarctic Analog Project (P,G)
Life Science Research in Space: Learning How to Live and Work a Long Way from Home (P,G)
David Bubenheim is the Chief Scientist for Regenerative Life Support Systems Research and Technology Development at NASA Ames Research Center. His research has emphasized Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS), utilizing plants for the production for food, water, and air from recycled wastes for humans during space exploration. These technologies are being used to address issues on earth while learning how to support a human habitat on another planet. Dr. Bubenheim is a board trustee of the Hydroponics Society of America, serves on Controlled Environment Agriculture Committees with the USDA and the American Society for Horticultural Science, and is very active in science education programs.
George Bugliarello
Polytechnic University
6 Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 260-3330
Fax: (718) 260-3974
E-mail: gbugliar@duke.poly.edu
The Indissoluble Synthesis of Humans, Society, and Machines (P)
Socio-Technology„A New Discipline? (P)
Telecommunications, Politics, Economics, and National Sovereignty (P)
George Bugliarello is the Chancellor and former president (1973-1994) of Polytechnic University. An engineer and educator whose background ranges from biomedical engineering to fluid mechanics, computer languages and socio-technology, he holds a doctorate in engineering from MIT, and has received several honorary degrees. He is the U.S. member of the Science for Stability Steering Group of the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO, and chairs the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council. His international experience includes consultantships abroad for UNESCO and OECD, and assignments as a specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Venezuela and Central Africa. Dr. Bugliarello is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is a member and former president (1992-1993) of Sigma Xi.
John T. Cacioppo
Department of Psychology
Ohio State University
1885 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1222
(614) 292-1916
Fax: (614) 292-5326
E-mail: cacioppo.1@osu.edu
Social Neuroscience: Autonomic, Neuroendocrine, and Immune Response to Stress (G,S)
Attitudes and Evaluative Space: The (Psychological) Opposite of Positive is not always Negative! (G,S)
Inferring Psychological Significance from Neural Events: Attributing Function to Structure (G,S)
John Cacioppo is professor of psychology at Ohio State University and president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ohio State University Research Foundation, and Editor-in-Chief of Psychophysiology. He is a past president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Society for Consumer Psychology. Dr. Cacioppo's research concerns attitudes, affect, emotion, and ambivalence, as well as the role of social and autonomic factors in individual's endocrine and cellular immune response to stress and illness vulnerability. He is the recipient of several honors including the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology and the National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award.
Rosanne Di Stefano
Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics
Theory Division
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-7091
Fax: (617) 495-7093
E-mail: rdistefano@cfa.harvard.edu
Viewing the Universe with X-ray Vision (S,G,P)
Do machos Travel In Pairs? (and Other Questions about Gravitational Microlensing) (S,G,P)
Bringing the Introductory Physics Course into the 21st Century (S,G)
Rosanne Di Stefano received her M.A. in physics from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook. Her early research was in field theory, specifically topics related to supersymmetry. She is currently on long-term leave from the New York Institute of Technology. Her research is centered on astrophysics, particularly the study of close binary systems. During the past four years, first at MIT and now at Harvard, she has studied the formation of close binaries and of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters, and has also studied the new class of source called luminous supersoft x-ray sources. She has been selected twice as a Bunting Science Scholar. For the past three years she has served as the evaluator for the Introductory University Physics Project, a large-scale, national experiment to modernize the introductory physics course.
Barbara L. Dutrow
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
(504) 388-2525
Fax: (504) 388-2302
E-mail: dutrow@hermes.geol.lsu.edu
Unavailable: July and August
Gemstones: Why Diamonds are not Forever! (P,G)
Asbestos: Some Facts and Some Fiction (P,G)
Tourmaline: A Mineralogical Monitor of a Metamorphic Rock's Environmental History (S)
Barbara L. Dutrow is associate professor of geology, specializing in mineralogy/petrology, at Louisiana State University. Her early research concentrated on the crystal chemistry and pressure-temperature stability of staurolite, a metamorphic indicator mineral. Her work progressed to concentrating on processes which affect the thermal, chemical, and mechanical development of metamorphic rocks and the relationship to crustal evolution. Currently, Dr. Dutrow is working on theoretical studies of fluid dynamics and fluid-rock interactions. She received her Ph.D. at Southern Methodist University. She was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at Ruhr-Universitat, and served on the faculty at the University of Iowa. Dr. Dutrow is secretary of the Mineralogical Society of America, and associate editor for The American Mineralogist and Reviews of Geophysics. She is also an avid runner, skier, and hiker.
John S. Edwards
Department of Zoology, NJ-15
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-8829
Fax: (206) 543-3041
E-mail: hardsnow@uwashington.edu
Unavailable: January and February
What is Biological Literacy and What Should We Do About It? (P)
The Recolonization of Mt. Saint Helens: Arthropods as Pioneers (G)
The Emancipation of the Glia: History and Prospects (S)
John S. Edwards is professor of zoology at the University of Washington and has an unusual combination of research interests„the neurobiology of insects and alpine ecology. He is also interested in the teaching of biology (particularly to non-biologists) and he directs the University of Washington's Honors Program. His research career began with the study of the neurobiology of regeneration at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He conducted his M.Sc. work in insect ecology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, England. Dr. Edwards was designated the Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities by the University of Washington, and is the recipient of a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health.
Anabel Ford
Community and Organization Research Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150
(805) 893-8191
Fax: (805) 893-2790
E-mail: ford@alishaw.ucsb.edu (U.S.)
ford@brass.org.bz (Belize)
Action Archaeology in the Maya Forest: Creating the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna (P)
Ancient Solutions and Contemporary Possibilities: The Development of the Classic Period Maya (P,G)
Social Complexity Among the Ancient Maya: Community Dynamics in a Regional Perspective (S,G)
Anabel Ford is known for her research on settlement and environment in Mesoamerica archaeology which challenges traditional views of the ancient Maya by examining the human aspects of this glamorous civilization. She is a research archaeologist and head of the Community Organization Research Institute/Mesoamerican Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her focus on cultural ecology inspired what she calls "action archaeology" Using anthropology as a springboard for interdisciplinary research, she proposes that ancient traditions can yield contemporary solutions in Belize and Guatemala. Dr. Ford has served as director of the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna, a model of cultural heritage stewardship, nature conservation, and community development relying on the collaboration of local villagers, nations of the region, and international scholars.
Joseph S. Francisco
Department of Chemistry
1393 Brown Building
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(317) 494-5200 or (317) 494-3258
Fax: (317) 494-0239
or (317) 496-1210
The Environment and You: The Importance of Being Informed (P)
Are Chlorofluorocarbon Alternatives really Safe? (G,P)
Interaction of Man-made Chemicals with the Atmosphere (G,S)
Joseph S. Francisco is professor of chemistry and professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interest focuses on understanding the atmospheric chemical consequences of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and their replacement alternatives. Dr. Francisco is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. He is a co-author of the textbook Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics and serves on the editorial board of Spectrochemica Acta, Part A.
Michela Gallagher
Department of Psychology
Campus Box 3270, Davie Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-5084
Fax: (919) 962-5738
E-mail: mgallagh@uncecs.edu
Individual Differences: The Good News and the Bad News about Aging (P,G)
Graceful Aging: The Story of the Brain (P,G)
Michela Gallagher received her B.A. from Colgate University and completed her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Vermont. She is the W.B. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, she is director of the Graduate Training Program in Experimental and Biological Psychology and a member of the Neurobiology Curriculum. Her extensive research in behavioral neurobiology includes investigation of the effects of aging on cognition and brain systems under a program project grant from the National Institute on Aging, as well as participation in an international research program funded by the Human Frontier Science Program. This latter area of her work focuses on the study of brain systems involved in the regulation of attention, a project that also includes researchers at Duke University, Cambridge University, and the National Institutes on Mental Health. Dr. Gallagher is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Psychological Association. She is editor of the American Psychological Association journal, Behavioral Neuroscience. She is the recipient of Research Scientist Development Awards (1982-1992) and currently holds a Senior Research Scientist Award from the National Institutes on Mental Health.
Bernard Greenberg
Department of Biological Sciences, University at Chicago, MC 066
845 W. Taylor
Chicago, IL 60607-7060
(312) 996-3103
Fax: (312) 413-2435
Maggots and Murder: Flies as Forensic Indicators (P,G)
The Use of Carrion Flies as Evidence in Forensic Medicine (P,G)
Dr. Greenberg is professor emeritus of biological sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the president of BIOCONCERN and scientific governor of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. As a consultant and expert witness in forensic entomology, Dr. Greenberg has worked on homicide cases nationwide, particularly with the State's Attorney Office and Chief Medical Examiners of Illinois. He is a reviewer for the National Science Foundation's USDA research proposals, as well as many entomology journals; and he lectures on an international basis. His research interests are in the areas of medical ecology, medical and veterinary entomology, forensic entomology, and the biological impact of extreme low frequency electromagnetic fields. He is a member of AAAS and Sigma Xi.
Bernd Heinrich
Department of Zoology
University of Vermont
120 Marsh Life Science Bldg.
Burlington, VT 05405-0086
(802) 656-2922
Fax: (802) 656-2914
The Mechanisms of Sharing among Strangers in Ravens (G)
Insect Thermoregulation: Physiological Mechanisms (G)
Insect Thermoregulatory Strategies: Behavior and Ecology (G)
Bernd Heinrich received his B.S. and M.A. from the University of Maine in Orono and went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. He served as professor of entomology at the University of California at Berkeley, and then went back "home" to New England to become a professor of zoology at the University of Vermont. Despite his early, avid interest in insects and birds, his research career began with cell biology, and then moved on to deciphering whole-animal physiological and behavioral puzzles. He is well known for his discoveries in insect thermoregulation, especially as it relates to the circulatory system, and to insect foraging ecology. His more recent work relates the foraging ecology and sociobiology of ravens.
Arch C. Johnston
Center for Earthquake Research
and Information (CERI)
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152
(901) 678-2007
Fax: (901) 678-4734
E-mail: johnston@ceri.memphis.edu
Earthquakes Where They Shouldn't Be (P)
Strange Bedfellows: Earthquakes, Ice Sheets, & Reservoirs (G,S)
New Madrid: The Story of the World's Greatest Stable Continental Earthquakes (P,G,S)
Arch C. Johnston is professor of geophysics at the University of Memphis and director of research at its Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI). He received a B.S. in physics from Rhodes College and a geoscience Ph.D. with emphasis in seismology form the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was the director of CERI from its founding in 1978 to 1992. His research has focused on the seismicity and seismotectonics of plant interiors, principally stable continental regions. The rare, large, midplate earthquakes such as New Madrid 1811 and Charleston 1886 constitute an important and poorly understood element in both seismic hazard assessment and the active tectonics of so-called "stable" continental crust. Relating current earthquake activity to strain rate and the geological and geophysical evolution of continental crust are present research topics. He has testified several times before congressional subcommittees concerning the seismic hazard of the eastern U.S. He is a past president of the Seismological Society of America (SSA), editor of Seismological Research Letters, and a member of the National Earthquake Seismic System. He received the Memphis State University Faculty Distinguished Research Award in 1986.
Donald R. Kaplan
Department of Plant Biology
University of California
111 Koshland Hall
Berkeley, California 94720-3102
(510) 642-4187 (office)
(510) 524-8365 (home)
Fax: (510) 642-4995
E-mail: kaplandr@nature.berkeley.edu
The Relationship of Cells to Organisms in Plants: Basis for a Paradigm Shift (G,S)
Graduate Education in the Sciences Today: Are We Building for the Future? (P,G)
Are Biodiversity and Fundamental Research in Biology Incompatible? (P,G)
Wilhelm Hofmeister and the Origin of Causal Research in Plant Development: The Role of the Outsider in Science (P,G)
Donald R. Kaplan is professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a developmental plant morphologist interested in the principles underlying the broad range of plant structural diversity. He was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Botanic Garden in Kew, England, and is a former faculty member of the University of California, Irvine. He joined the Berkeley campus in 1968 and received their Miller Professorship and a distinguished teaching award in 1975-76. In 1984 he received the Merit Award from the Botanical Society of America for outstanding contributions to botanical science. Dr. Kaplan was also a Guggenheim fellow and an Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist awardee at the University of Heidelberg.
Molly F. Miller
Department of Geology
Vanderbilt University
Box 6001, Station B
Nashville, TN 37235
(615) 322-3528
Fax: (615) 322-2138
E-mail: millermf@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
Unravelling a Continent's History: Life and Hard (Cold) Times in Antarctica (P,G,S)
Antarctica: Past, Present, Future And Why it Matters (P,G)
Biotic and Sedimentary Response to Climate Change Recorded in the Upper Paleozoic Sequence, Transantarctic Mountains (S)
Molly Miller is professor of geology and chair of distinguished teaching at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are in reconstructing past environments, as well as modern and ancient ecological relationships. Currently, she is documenting environmental changes that accompanied melting of Paleozoic continental glaciers and the subsequent colonization of lakes and streams by benthic animals. Dr. Miller's teaching efforts extend beyond the classroom and integrate new discoveries and everyday experiences with important concepts to enhance appreciation of earth systems. She has served the Geological Society of America and the Society of Sedimentary Geology in many capacities, such as editing a book of hands-on activities for K-12 teachers.
Kenneth L. Mossman
Health Physics Society-
Sigma Xi Lecturer
Department of Microbiology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2701
(602) 965-0584
Fax: (602) 991-4998
E-mail: ken.mossman@asu.edu
Cold War Science: Lessons Learned from the Human Radiation Experiments (P,G,S)
Radiation Risks and Linearity: Sound Science? (P,G,S)
Kenneth L. Mossman is a full professor in the Department of Microbiology and former assistant vice president for research at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee in radiation biology and an M.Ed. degree in higher education administration from the University of Maryland. Previously he served as professor and founding chairman of the Department of Radiation Science in Georgetown University's Graduate School. He is a past president of the Health Physics Society (1993-1994). Dr. Mossman's research interests include the biological effects of low level radiation, radiation exposure in pregnancy, health effects of environmental radon, and radiation protection and public policy. He is a recipient of the Elda Anderson Award from the Health Physics Society and an elected fellow of the Society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of health physics. In 1995, he received the Marie Curie Gold Medal.
Elizabeth J. Reitz
Museum of Natural History
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-1882
(706) 542-1464
Fax: (706) 542-3920
The Bountiful Coast: Animal Use at Charleston, South Carolina (P)
The Extinction of Rice Rats in the Caribbean (S)
Zooarchaeology and Environmental Change (G)
Elizabeth J. Reitz is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia where she manages the Zooarchaeology Laboratory in the Museum of Natural History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Her work centers on zooarchaeology, ecological anthropology (particularly human/environmental interactions in coastal settings), nutrition,and Latin American and southeastern United States archaeology. She has served on the boards of the Society for Historical Archaeology and the Society of Ethnobiology and has authored
Steven L. Richardson
Materials Science Research Center
School of Engineering
Howard University
2300 Sixth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059
(202) 806-4906
Fax: (202) 806-4353
E-mail: slr@ccmpf.howard.edu
Using Supercomputers to Design Novel Materials (G,P)
Electron Tunneling in Semiconductor Devices (G)
Steven L. Richardson is associate professor of electrical engineering and associate director of the Materials Science Research Center at Howard University. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from The Ohio State University. His research focuses on using supercomputers and massively parallel processing (MPP) machines to solve problems in computational materials science and computational chemistry. Dr. Richardson's research was cited by the National Science Foundation in 1992 with a Career Advancement Award. He received a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellowship and recently served as visiting professor at the University of Lisbon and the Institute de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC), in Portugal and the Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation at Emory University.
Michael A.J. Rodgers
American Society for Photobiology-Sigma Xi Lecturer
Department of Chemistry
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
(419) 372-7606
Fax: (419) 372-6069
E-mail: rodgers@opie.bgsu.edu
Oxygen: Friend and Foe (G)
Frontiers in Photobiology (G)
Michael A.J. Rodgers received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Manchester in England under the mentorship of Dr. J.H. Baxendale. He has served as deputy director and director of the Center for Fast Kinetics Research at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1988 Dr. Rodgers accepted an appointment as an Ohio Board of Regents Eminent Scholar in the Photochemical Sciences and professor of chemistry at the Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University. There he established a state-of-the-art laser laboratory where his group's research centers on understanding the interaction between light and molecular systems, particularly the very early events following the absorption of photons. The global issues stimulating these activities are: 1) the possible conversion of solar energy into a storable form for later use; and 2) understanding how light damages living tissue and the design, synthesis and evaluation of new molecular sensitizers for photodynamic therapy for cancer and viral diseases. Dr. Rodgers is a member of the European Society for Photobiology, the European Photochemistry Association, and a past president of the American Society of Photobiology.
Nat Rutter
Department of Geology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E3
(403) 492-3085
Fax: (403) 492-2030
Unavailable: July and August
Paleoclimates Interpreted from the 2.5 Million Year Old Chinese Paleosol-Loess Sequence (P,G)
The Last Glaciation of North America (P,G)
Evolution of Quaternary Shorelines in Argentina Utilizing Amino Acid Dating Methods (G,S)
Nat Rutter is a professor of Quaternary geology at the University of Alberta. His current research interests include paleoclimatic interpretation from proxy records, glaciation of western Canada and amino-acid dating methods. Previously, he was environmental advisor to the National Energy Board of Canada, and a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. In addition to North America, he has carried out extensive Quarternary field work in China, Argentina, and Colombia. Dr. Rutter has been president of the International Union of Quarternary Research (198791) is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee„Global Changes of the Past, a core project of International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. He is founder and editor-in-chief of Quaternary Research and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Sciences).
Bernd Sturmfels
Department of Mathematics
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642-4687
Fax: (510) 642-8204
E-mail: bernd@math.berkeley.edu
Algebra, Geometry, and Computers (P,G)
Why are There So Few Real Roots? (G)
Algorithms for Solving Algebraic Equations (S)
Bernd Sturmfels is professor of mathematics at University of California at Berkeley. His expertise lies in computational algebra, combinatorics, and algebraic geometry oriented towards applications in operations research and computer science. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Minnesota and the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation in Linz, Austria. Dr. Sturmfels served on the faculty of Cornell University and has been a Sloan fellow, David and Lucile Packard fellow, and a National Science Foundation National Young Investigator. He is the author of eighty research articles and four books, including Algorithms in Invariant Theory and Gršbner Bases and Convex Polytopes.
John A. Watson
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0448
(415) 476-3219
Fax: (415) 476-0961
Reduced availability: January-March
Mevalonic Acid - A Central Metabolite (G)
Regulation of Mevalonic Acid Synthesis by Insect and Mammalian Cells (S)
John A. Watson is professor of biochemistry and biophysics and former dean of admissions and student affairs in the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Watson's public services includes service on numerous boards and committees for minority affairs and opportunities. For ten years he served as regional director for the National Institute of Science. His research interest is metabolic regulation with a specific emphasis on the control of carbon flow for isopentenoid synthesis. He is a founding member of the Coalition for the Advancement of Blacks in Biomedical Sciences, as well as a member of AAAS, Sigma Xi, and the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCCE). Dr. Watson is the recipient of several awards, including AAAS' Lifetime Mentor Award and NOBCCE's Outstanding Teacher Award.
J. Frederick Woessner, Jr.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, R-127
School of Medicine
University of Miami
P.O. Box 016960
Miami, FL 33101
(305) 547-6510
Fax: (305) 546-3955
E-mail: fwoessne@mednet.med.miami.edu
Is There Cell Biology without Extracellular Matrix (P,G)
Osteoarthritis and Cancer„Proteases Run Amok (G,S)
Matrix Remodeling in the Birth Process (G,S)
Professor Woessner received his A.B. from Valparaiso University and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests concern the breakdown of collagen and the extracellular matrix in diverse biological systems and processes including uterine involution, cervical dilatation, ovulation, wound healing, breast cancer, and osteoarthritic cartilage. Many of these problems are united by the common theme of matrix metalloproteinase activity and inhibition. He serves on the editorial boards of Arthritis and Rheumatism and Connective Tissue Research and has edited several books including: Joint Cartilage Degradation and The Extracellular Matrix of the Uterus, Cervix and Fetal Membranes.
Vincent A. Ziboh
Department of Dermatology
TB-192, School of Medicine
University of California
Davis, California 95616
(916) 752-9765
Fax: (916) 752-9766
Unavailable: March-July
Hydroxy Fatty Acid-Substituted Diaclyglycerols: Novel in vivo Modulators of Protein Kinase C-isotypes and Cellular Proliferation (G,S)
Dietary Oils/Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Implications in Normal Physiology and Therapeutic Promise in the Management of Human Skin Disorders (P,G)
Vincent A. Ziboh is professor of dermatology/biochemistry at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from St. Louis University in Missouri where his advisor was Professor E.A. Doisy, Nobel laureate. Previously he served on the faculty of the University of Miami and as a lecturer at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Dr. Ziboh has received the Danish Research Academy Award and the UC-Davis Faculty Research Award and was a who fellow in Advanced Clinical Biochemistry. He is a member of Sigma Xi, AAAS, the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Nutrition, and the New York Academy of Sciences.
Marlene Zuk
Department of Biology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
(909) 787-3952
Fax: (909) 787-4286
E-mail: mzuk@ucracl.ucr.edu
Alternate address: (January-June 1996)
Department of Zoology
University of Western Australia
Nedlands 6009 AUSTRALIA
Unavailable: June-September 15
Sex Differences and Evolution: Notes of a Darwinian Feminist (G,P)
Singing under Pressure: Acoustically-Orienting Parasitoids and their Cricket Hosts (G,S)
Parasites, Sexual Selection and Immune Function in Red Jungle Fowl (G,S)
Marlene Zuk received her B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. After doing postdoctoral work at the University of New Mexico, she took a position as associate professor of biology at the University of California at Riverside. Her research interests center on animal behavior, particularly mate choice and the evolution of sex differences; and the effects of parasites on host ecology and behavior.More recently, her longstanding commitment to feminism has dovetailed with her academic interests, particularly the relationship between feminism and science.