Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturers, 1997-1998
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.
William Abikoff
Department of Mathematics, U-9
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3009
(860) 486-2003; 486-3923
E-mail: abikoff@math.uconn.edu
Unavailable: July through mid-September 1997
Geometry and Christmas Ornaments (G)
Computers and Geometry (G)
Symmetry in Geometry and Physics (G)
Born in New York City, Dr. Abikoff has traveled and lectured world-wide. He was an invited lecturer at the Swedish Mathematical Society, the Danish Mathematical Society, and the American Mathematical Society. He has served as a professor or lecturer at the Universities of Paris, Perugia, and Firenze, and the Summer Research Institute of CINVESTAV, in Taxco, Mexico. He was the Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Technion and the Joseph Fels Ritt Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University. William Abikoff is a professor mathematics at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Dr. Abikoff has authored numerous publications and has received several grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.
*For small audiences
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 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.
William L. Balee
Department of Anthropology
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 862-3055
Fax: (504) 865-5338
E-mail: wbalee@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
The Culture of Natural Things in Amazonia (P)
Culture and the Riddle of Tropical Diversity (G)
A Problem in the Forest History of Eastern Bolivia (S)
William Balee is an associate professor of anthropology at Tulane University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a visiting associate professor in the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He has held positions at the Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden; and the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi in Brazil. His interests are ecological, cultural, and historical anthropology, and South American Indians. Dr. Balee is the author of Footprints of the Forest: Ka'apor Ethnobotany and co-editor of Resource Management in Amazonia. He was invested as an Officer in the Order of the Golden Ark for special services rendered to the conservation of flora and fauna by His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Conversant in several languages, Dr. Balee is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Margaret Bayer
Department of Mathematics
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-2142
(913) 864-3651
Fax: (913) 864-5255
E-mail: bayer@math.ukans.edu
An Excursion to the Land of Polyhedra or What Do Mathematicians Do Anyway? (G)
Cutting Up Space (G)
How Many Faces Do Polyhedra Have? (S)
Professor Bayer is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University and has taught at Northeastern University. She was a visiting member at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis; the Discrete Mathematics Research Institute at the University of Bielefeld, Germany; and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. Her primary research interests are polyhedra and arrangements of lines and planes in space-problems that are easy to state and understand, but are challenging to solve. Dr. Bayer is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Association for Women in Mathematics, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
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.
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 (1973-94) 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 State Department in Venezuela and Central Africa. 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 (1992-93) 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.
Peter Dallos
John Evans Professor of Neuroscience and Hugh Knowles Professor of Audiology
Northwestern University
Frances Searle Building
2299 North Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-3175
Fax: (847) 467-4327
E-mail: p-dallos@nwu.edu
Unavailable: September-October
Hearing: Neurobiological Foundations (P,G)
The Ins and Outs of Hair Cells (G,S)
Paradigm Shifts in Hearing Science: Local Feedback in the Cochlea (G,S)
Born in Budapest, Hungary, Dr. Dallos came to the United States in 1956 and became a naturalized citizen in 1961. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and has been a faculty member there since 1962. He is the John Evans Professor of Neuroscience, the Hugh Knowles Professor of Audiology, and professor of otolaryngology and biomedical engineering. He has served in NIH Study Sections, on the Council of the Neurology Institute of the NIH, and as president of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO). He now serves as editor-in-chief of Auditory Neuroscience. His honors and awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, Beltone Award, Amplifon International Prize, Award of Merit (ARO), Honors of the Association from the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) and the von Bekesy Medal of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
Paul K. Dayton
Marine Life Research Group
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
La Jolla, CA 92093-0201
(619) 534-6740
Fax: (619) 534-6500
E-mail: pdayton@ucsd.edu
Environmental Effects of Fishing: Global Implications of Habitat Destruction and Ecosystem Alteration (P,G,S)
Polar Marine Ecosystems: Contrasting the Geology, Oceanography, and Biology of the Arctic and the Antarctic (P,G,S)
The Ecology of a Southern Californian Kelp Forest: Background Oceanography and Spatial/Temporal Scale's Influence on Key Processes (P,G,S)
Paul Dayton is a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. His work has focused on overfishing of target species, impacts on air-breathing species and elasmobranchs, destruction of benthic habitat, generation of lethal debris, and management options. Currently, his work focuses on oceanographic shifts and anthropogenic impacts on the Point Loma kelp forest off San Diego. He is a recipient of the Louise Burt Award for excellence in oceanographic writing from Oregon State University and the George Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Dayton is a fellow of AAAS and a PEW Conservation Scholar (1995-98). He is a member of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission; the Group of Specialists on Southern Ocean Ecology, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
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@geol.lsu.edu
Unavailable: July and August
Are Diamonds Forever? The Natural History of Gemstones (P,G)
Better Living Through Minerals (P,G)
One Hundred Mammoths in a Hot Tub (P,G)
Fluid Pressure and Fracture Propagation During Contact Metamorphism (S)
Barbara L. Dutrow is associate professor of geology, specializing in mineralogy and metamorphic petrology, at Louisiana State University. She received her M.S. degree with a concentration in vertebrate paleontology and her Ph.D. with an emphasis on metamorphic petrology and mineralogy from Southern Methodist University. Her current research focuses on the thermal, chemical, and mechanical development of metamorphic rocks and the relationship to crustal evolution. This work combines studies of the crystal chemistry and texture of minerals with computational modeling of heat and mass transfer to decipher fluid-rock interactions. She was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at Ruhr-Universitat, Germany. Dr. Dutrow is secretary of the Mineralogical Society of America, and associate editor for Reviews of Geophysics. She is also an avid runner and skier.
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.
Nicholas E. Geacintov
American Society of Photobiology-Sigma Xi Lecturer
Department of Chemistry
New York University
29 Washington Place, Room 453C
New York, NY 10003
(212) 998-8407
Fax: (212) 998-8421
E-mail: geacintov@is.nyu.edu
Environmental Carcinogens-DNA Damage and Mechanisms of Action (G,S)
DNA Damage and Disease (G,S)
Born in Albi, France, Nicholas Geacintov became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1957. He received his Ph.D. in physical and polymer chemistry from Syracuse University. Dr. Geacintov is a professor of chemistry at New York University. He has served at the Curie Institute, University of Paris; the Service de Biophysique, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, France, and the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, MIT. His research focuses on mechanisms and characterization of DNA damage using biochemical, enzymatic, and physiochemical methods. Dr. Geacintov also investigates mutations and initiation of cancer by polynuclear aromatic chemicals. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society, a past president of the American Society for Photobiology, and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Laurie Godfrey
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts
Machmer Hall, Box 34805
Amherst, MA 01003-4805
(413) 545-2064
Fax: (413) 545-9494
E-mail: lgodfrey@anthro.umass.edu
Madagascar: Primate Paradise in Peril (P,G)
What Were the Giant Extinct Lemurs of Madagascar Up To? (P,G)
Why Some Popular Heterochronic Diagnostic Tools Do Not Work (S)
Dr. Godfrey obtained her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from Harvard University. She is a professor in the anthropology department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Godfrey was a Science Scholar at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She held a National Science Foundation-sponsored Visiting Professorship for Women in Science in the anatomy department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook (1994-95). She is the recipient of an award from the American Humanist Association for her community work on the public understanding of evolutionary biology. Dr. Godfrey has done extensive paleontological fieldwork on the giant extinct lemurs of Madagascar and their associated fauna. Her research focuses on the anatomy and evolution of primates, and currently includes heterochrony-the evolution of ontogeny.
Bernard Greenberg
University of Illinois at Chicago, MC 006
845 West 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 bio-concern 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. He has received numerous research awards, including a Fulbright, and lectures on an international basis. His research interests are in the areas of medical ecology, medical entomolog and forensic entomology. He is a AAAS fellow and author of a two-volume work, Flies and Disease published by Princeton University Press. His forensic work is featured in a BBC-TV nature special, Creatures in Crime.
Joseph B. Lambert
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-5437
Fax: (847) 491-7713
E-mail: lambert@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Chemistry and Archaeology (G)
New Structures in Organosilicon Chemistry (S)
Ancient Organic Materials (G)
Joseph B. Lambert is the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. His research has been divided among the areas of organic reaction mechanisms, organosilicon and organotin chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance, conformational analysis, and archaeological chemistry. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. A winner of several awards, including the national Fresenius Award and the Fryxell Award from the Society for American Archaeology in recognition of his chemical contributions to archaeology. He has been a visiting lecturer in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and Poland.
Orie L. Loucks
Department of Zoology
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-1677
Fax: (513) 529-6900
E-mail: loucks@msmail.muohio.edu
Unavailable: July-August
Externalities of Fossil Fuel Use versus Energy Alternative Feasibility (P)
Increasing Death Rates of Trees: Esoterica or Catastrophe? (G)
Hierarchical Patch Dynamics as a Paradigm for Stability in Ecological Systems (S)
Orie Loucks is the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Applied Ecosystem Studies and professor of zoology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio with degrees in forestry (University of Toronto) and botany.
Victor McCrary
6416 Saddle Drive
Columbia, MD 21045
(301) 975-4321
Fax: (301) 926-9524
E-mail: victor.mccrary@nist.gov
Management of Technology: Moving from the Lab Bench (G)
Optoelectronics 2000: New Directions (S)
Should the U.S. Government Support Civilian Technology Initiatives? (P)
Dr. Victor R. McCrary is a program manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His interests include reshaping our U.S. research and development, technology and public policy, and new paradigms of technology management. At AT&T Bell Labs, he worked in semiconductor laser technology and designed its first lightwave laboratory, which uses commercial technology to grow semiconductor laser structures by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). AT&T's Fiber Optic Trans-Atlantic Cable currently uses the components based on prototypes developed by Dr. McCrary's research team. His awards include the Pioneer of the Year award from the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and the Motorola Company, and the Outstanding Contribution to the African-American Community award by the AT&T Bell Laboratories Synergy Committee.
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.
James W. Mitchell
Director, Materials, Reliability, and Ecology Research Laboratory
700 Mountain Avenue, MH 1A-159
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
(908) 582-4436
Fax: (908) 582-2783
E-mail: jwm@bell-labs.com
Plasma Induced Materials Chemistry (G)
Industrial Analytical Chemistry Research (G)
Dr. James W. Mitchell is a senior scientist at Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations at Murray Hill, New Jersey. He is currently the Director of the Materials, Reliability, and Ecology Research Laboratory. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from the Agricultural and Technical State University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. His research includes exploiting microwave discharges and plasmas for synthesis and analysis of materials using spectroscopy and nuclear radiation to develop high-accuracy methods for ultratrace analysis. Dr. Mitchell also works on developing alternative environmentally responsive methods and processes for producing electronic chemicals and device materials. He has lectured on these topics internationally and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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. 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.
Michelle Murrain
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
School of Natural Science
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 582-5688
Fax: (413) 582-5448
E-mail: mmurrain@hampshire.edu
The Future of the AIDS Epidemic (P)
The Relationship Between HIV/AIDS and Social Class (G)
Social Inequalities in Health: Dynamic Processes (G,S)
Michelle Murrain is associate professor of neurobiology at Hampshire College. Trained in neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University, she also conducted graduate work in public health at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her recent research focuses on differences in the experience of people with AIDS in terms of gender and race issues. In addition, she has explored the relationship between economic status and HIV risk in Massachusetts. She is a member of the Society of the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues, the American Public Health Association, and the Society for Neuroscience. Currently, she is at work on a book entitledWounded Bodies: The Biological Consequence of "Race" and Class in the United States.
Judy M. Olson
Department of Geography
315 National Science Bldg.
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 353-8757
Fax: (517) 432-1671
E-mail: olsonj@pilot.msu.edu
Understanding Maps (P,G,S)
Cartography of Accommodation: Maps for People with Impaired Vision (P,G,S)
Technological Change and Mapping (P,G,S)
Judy M. Olson is professor and past chair of geography at Michigan State University, and a recent past president of the Association of American Geographers and vice president of the International Cartographic Association. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and has held positions at the University of Georgia and Boston University. With primary interests in cartography and related interests in geographic information systems and research methodology, her work has centered on map design and use, color mapping, and technological change. She has published in a variety of cartographic and geographic journals. Dr. Olson was editor of The American Cartographer (now Cartography and Geographic Information Systems) and is co-editor of Geography's Inner Worlds: Pervasive Themes in Contemporary American Geography.
Julio M. Ottino
Chemical Engineering Department
Northwestern University,
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3120
(847) 491-3558
Fax: (847) 491-3728
E-mail: ottino@chem-eng.nwu.edu
Unavailable: July and August
Chaos and Mixing: History, Origins, and Applications (P,G)
Comparing Extremes: Mixing of Liquids, Mixing of Solids (G,S)
Avalanche Mixing of Granular Materials (G,S)
Julio M. Ottino is the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His work has appeared on the covers of Scientific American and Nature, and was featured in Science and several other publications. He is the author of The Kinematics of Mixing: Stretching, Chaos and Transport. Dr. Ottino began his career at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he received a Presidential Young Investigator award. He was the Chevron Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and a senior research fellow at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. He currently serves as associate editor of Physics of Fluids and the AIChE Journal.
Mary Lucas Powell
Laboratory for Archaeological Research
330 Virginia Avenue, Bldg. A
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-9854
(606) 257-8208 or 257-1944
Fax: (606) 323-1968
E-mail: ant346@ukcc.uky.edu
Unavailable: August 15-September 15
Bioarchaeology: Bringing the Past to Life (P,G)
Trading Old Aches for New Pains: 2000 Years of Health and Disease (G,S)
Why Call it Syphilis? Treponemal Disease in the New World Before 1492 (G,S)
Life at Moundville, A Native American Chiefdom in Alabama (G,P,S)
Mary Lucas Powell is director and curator of the William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology, and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution after receiving her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her research for the past 20 years focused on health and disease in prehistoric Native Americans of the southeast and midwestern United States, particularly tuberculosis and treponematosis in the pre-Columbian New World. Dr. Powell serves on the Kentucky Historic Preservation Review Board and is a member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the Paleopathology Association.
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)
Animals and Colonization: Spanish Florida (P,G)
Zooarchaeology and Environmental Change (G,S)
Elizabeth J. Reitz received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida and is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia. To explore the range of human/environmental interactions in a variety of cultures she studies prehistoric and historic collections from Peru, Ecuador, the Caribbean basin, and the southeastern United States. Her research is based on the identification and interpreation of subfossil animal remains, primarily from coastal archaeological sites. Dr. Reitz's recent work focuses on the influence of the environment in colonization of North America and the role of marine resources in Andean coastal culture development. She is a past president of the Society for Historical Archaeology and recently edited Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology.
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@imhotep.ccmpf.howard.edu
Using Supercomputers to Design Novel Materials (G,P)
Electron Tunneling in Semiconductor Devices (G)
Using Quantum Mechanics to Understand Chemical Reactions in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres (G,P)
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.
Margaret J. Schoeninger
Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
5240 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
(608) 262-8726
Fax: 608-265-4216
E-mail: mjschoen@facstaff.wisc.edu
Unavailable: summer
Living Off the Land: New Approaches to Early Hominid Ecology (P,G,S)
Prehistoric Human Diet (G,S)
Professor Margaret J. Schoeninger received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was on faculty in the departments of earth and planetary sciences, University of California, Los Angeles; cell biology and anatomy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and anthropology, Harvard University. She has served on the Grants-in-Aid of Research Committee, and as president of the University of Wisconsin Chapter for Sigma Xi. Her research centers on subsistence strategies with applications to behavior and ecology in anthropological contexts. Dr. Schoeninger's fieldwork has encompassed archaeological, paleontological, and ethnographic projects in North America, Mesoamerica, Pakistan, India, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Roger H. Stuewer
Program in History of Science and Technology
Tate Laboratory of Physics
University of Minnesota
116 Church Street, SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 624-8073
Fax: (612) 624-4578
E-mail: rstuewer@physics.spa.umn.edu
The Case of the Elusive Particles: Nuclear Disintegration and the Cambridge-Vienna Controversy (P)
An Act of Creation: The Origins of the Meitner-Frisch Interpretation of Nuclear Fission (G)
Roger H. Stuewer is professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in the history of science and physics from the University of Wisconsin. Author of The Compton Effect: Turning Point in Physics, he has edited/co-edited many other books, includingNuclear Physics in Retrospect. His current research centers on the history of nuclear physics between the first and second world wars. He has served as secretary of the History of Science Society, Chair of the Division (now Forum) of the History of Physics of the American Physical Society, and president of the University of Minnesota Chapter of Sigma Xi. He is a fellow of the AAAS and of the APS and received a Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers for his editorship of the Resource Letters of the American Journal of Physics.
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.
Herbert G. Winful
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
1301 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
(313) 647-1804
Fax: (313) 647-2718
E-mail: winful@eecs.umich.edu
Nonlinearity in Optics: from Order to Chaos (G,S)
Nonlinear Dynamics of Coupled Lasers (G,S)
Optics of Nonlinear Periodic Structures (S)
Herbert Winful is a professor electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Before he joined the faculty at Michigan he spent six years as a Member of Technical Staff at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts. His research interests include nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers, ultrafast optical science, and linear dynamics of coupled lasers. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and of the Optical Society of America. He is the recipient of many honors including the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the State of Michigan Teaching Excellence award, the Amoco/University Teaching Excellence Award, and the Arthur Thurnau professorship. In his spare time he tries to play jazz piano.
Marlene Zuk
Department of Biology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
(909) 787-3952
Fax: (909) 787-4286
E-mail: mzuk@citrus.ucr.edu
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)
Sexual Selection (G)
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.