Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturers, 1998-1999
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 ConnecticutStorrs, CT 06269-3009
(860) 486-2003; 486-3923
E-mail: abikoff@math.uconn.edu
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 worldwide. 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. Dr. Abikoff is a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He has authored numerous publications and received several grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.*For small audiences
William L. Balee
Department of Anthropology
Tulane UniversityNew 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
(785) 864-3651
FAX: (785) 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.
Byron Bird
Chemical Engineering Department
University of Wisconsin
1415 Engineering DriveMadison, WI 53706-1691
(608) 262-5920 (Office)
(608) 262-1092 (Department Office)
(608) 238-6397 (Home)
FAX: (608) 262-5434
E-mail: bird@chewi.che.wisc.edu
Polymer Fluid Dynamics (G,S)
Technical Japanese Translation (P,G)
Bernoulli Equations of Fluid Dynamics (S)
Byron Bird is the Vilas Professor Emeritus in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests are in the areas of non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, macromolecular kinetic theory, and transport phenomena. He is the co-author of several books including: Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids, Transport Phenomena, Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, and Basic Technical Japanese. He was a Fulbright Lecturer in the Netherlands and Japan. Dr. Bird is a recipient of the National Medal of Science from President Reagan. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bird is also a foreign member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science and the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences.
Howard B. Bluestein
American Meteorological Society–Sigma Xi Lecturer
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
100 E. Boyd, Rm. 1310Norman, OK 73019
(405) 325-3006, ext. 6561
FAX: (405) 325-7689
E-mail: hblue@ou.edu
Unavailable: April 1–June 15
What We Learn from Chasing Tornadoes (P,G)
Doppler Radar Studies of Tornadoes and their Parent Storms (G,S)
Dr. Bluestein received his Ph.D. in meteorology from MIT. He is a professor in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and is a frequent scientific visitor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and past chair of the Severe Local Storms Committee. He has conducted field studies of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms for the past twenty years with support from the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His research has been the subject of television programs worldwide and an IMAX movie. He is the author of a two-volume textbook on synoptic-dynamic meteorology and a book on tornadoes and severe thunderstorms published by Oxford University Press.
Carlos Bustamante
Institute of Molecular Biology1229
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1229
(541) 346-1537
FAX: (541) 346-1581
E-mail: carlos@alice.uoregon.edu
Web: http://morel.uoregon.edu/ home97/pbustamante.html
Unavailable: July–September
Scanning Force Microscopy in Biology: Touching is Believing (S)
Single Molecule Studies of DNA Elasticity (S)
Folding-Unfolding Transitions of a Single Titin Molecule using Laser Tweezers and Force Microscopy (S)
Carlos Bustamante is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also professor of chemistry and a member of the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley where he was awarded the Abraham Rosenberg Scholarship. He was elected a Searle Scholar, a Sloan Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Prior to his current position, Dr. Bustamante was professor of chemistry at the University of New Mexico. His studies focus on the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules using the atomic force microscope and methods of single molecule manipulation. He and his colleagues have successfully applied the atomic force microscope to investigate several protein-nucleic acid complexes important in eukaryotic and prokaryotic transcription. Using laser tweezers, Dr. Bustamante is investigating the nano-mechanics of single nucleic acids and single protein molecules.
Clarence E. Curry, Jr.
College of Pharmacy
Howard University
2300 Fourth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059
(202) 806-4208
FAX: (202) 806-4478
E-mail: cecurry@fac.howard.edu
Unavailable: May–August
The Corner Drugstore Is Dead! Or Is It? (P)
Every Patient Should be a Candidate for Once-a-Day Dosing, Right? (G)
The Self-Care Headache: How to Survive Do-It-Yourself Nonprescription Pharmacotherapy (P,G)
Clarence E. Curry, Jr. obtained his doctor of pharmacy degree from Duquesne University. He is an associate professor of pharmacy practice in the Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy Sciences at Howard University. He also maintains a pharmacotherapy practice. He has served as a drug use consultant in both the hospital and health care management arenas. Dr. Curry's primary research interest is in pharmaceutical care strategy implementation in community pharmacy practice. He is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the Association of Black Hospital Pharmacists and Rho Chi. He is completing service on an AACP task force examining the need to retrain pharmacy specialists for primary care roles. Dr. Curry is a recipient of the Searle Fellowship in Pharmacy Mentor Award.
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; and the Group of Specialists on Southern Ocean Ecology, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
Charles A. Doswell, III
National Severe Storms Laboratory
1313 Halley Circle
Norman, OK 73069
(405) 366-0439
FAX: (405) 366-0427
E-mail: doswell@nssl.noaa.gov
Unavailable: mid-May–mid-June
Storm Chasing, in Fact and Fantasy (P,G)
Uncertainty in Weather Forecasting (G,S)
Recent Findings about Tornadogenesis (G,S)
Charles A. Doswell, III is a research meteorologist in the National Severe Storms Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma. He is also an adjunct full professor at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests involve severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, and more recently flash flood modeling and forecasting. A recipient of several awards, Dr. Doswell is the associate editor of Weather and Forecasting and editor of Severe Convective Storms Monograph for the AMS. He is a member of the Executive Council of the AMS and serves on the Council of Fellows at the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS). Dr. Doswell is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and member of the American Meteorological Society; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society; and the National Weather Association.
Harold M. Edwards
Professor of Mathematics
New York University
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-3168 (office)
(212) 779-4513 (home)
FAX: (212) 995-4121
E-mail: edwardsh@cims.nyu.edu
Unavailable: July–early September
How Public Key Cryptography Transformed Number Theory from the Purest of Pure Mathematics to the Hottest of Applied Mathematics (G)
How You Might Have Discovered the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity (If Euler hadn't Discovered it First) (G)
Galois Theory via Computations with Polynomials and Integer Coefficients (S)
Harold M. Edwards is Professor of Mathematics at New York University. A native of Champaign, Illinois, he was educated at the Universities of Wisconsin, Columbia, and Harvard. His doctoral dissertation at Harvard, in 1961, was on differential topology, but his interests have since shifted to the history of mathematics, number theory, and algebra. He is the author of six books: Advanced Calculus, Riemann's Zeta Function, Fermat's Last Theorem, Galois Theory, Divisor Theory and Linear Algebra. He was awarded the Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society for Expository Writing in, and was a Guggenheim Fellow. He has given invited lectures at the national meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the Deutsche Mathematische Vereinigung.
B. J.(Billy Joe) Evans
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
930 N. University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055
(313) 763-4228
FAX: (313) 647-4865
E-mail: bjemag@umich.edu
The Culture, Technology and Solid State Chemistry of Magnetic Materials from 1000 b.c. to 2000 a.d. (G)
Contemporary Mentoring: Smoke for No Fire (P)
Unusual Aspects of the Solid State Chemistry of Magnetic Oxides (S)
Billy Joe Evans is professor of solid state inorganic chemistry at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in solid state inorganic chemistry and crystal physics from the University of Chicago. His research interests include the electronic structure and properties of solids, particularly magnetic materials and solid state chemistry. He is keenly interested in teacher-learner interactions and the power of mentoring. He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations and a special fellow of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation. He is a Catalyst Medalist of the Chemical Manufacturer's Association and an awardee of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Award. He also received the American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical 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
Unavailable: July and August
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)
Laurie 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.
Joan P. Hutchinson
Sept. 1–May 31:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Macalester College
St. Paul, MN 55105
(612) 696-6134
June 1–Aug. 31:
P. O. Box 1782
Silverthorne, CO 80498
(970) 468-0977
E-mail: hutchinson@macalester.edu
Four Coloring Planar Maps: How, Why, and What For? (G)
A Mathematical Problem Arising from Chip Design and Testing (S)
Color and Mathematics: Some Concepts Illustrated with Fabrics, Maps, and Computer Images (P)
Joan Hutchinson is a professor of mathematics and computer science at Macalester College. She began her work in combinatorics and graph theory, earning her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of H. S. Wilf. Her work has focused primarily on problems of coloring maps and related graphs, and on drawing these graphs on different surfaces, such as the sphere, the torus, and a doubled sphere like the combined earth and moon. Her mathematical work has had relevance to areas of theoretical computer science, graph algorithms and graph drawing, and she currently works and teaches in both disciplines. She was the 1994 recipient of the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for "Coloring ordinary maps, maps of empires, and maps of the moon" in Mathematics Magazine.
Ray Hyman
Department of Psychology1227
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1227
(541) 346-4910 (office)
(541) 344-7278 (home)
FAX: (541) 346-4911
E-mail: rayhym@oregon.uoregon.edu
Unavailable: last two weeks of August
Psychics and Scientists (P,G)
How Smart People Go Wrong (P,G)
How We Are Fooled (P,G)
Ray Hyman has been with the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon since 1961. During this time he served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bologna in Italy and held the Thomas Wellington Stanford Chair for Psychical Research at Stanford University. He also served on the National Research Council's Committee for the Enhancement of Human Performance, where he chaired the subcommittees on Paranormal Phenomena and Hiding and Detecting Deception. Recently, he was a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel to evaluate the government's psychic spying program. His publications are in the areas of information theory, perception, pattern recognition and problem solving. He has written more than 200 papers critical of parapsychology and other controversial claims. His current research focuses on human error and how people get to believe what isn't so. Dr. Hyman is a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society.
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 (University of Wisconsin). He headed the Holcomb Research Institute in Indianapolis and has taught at the University of Wisconsin. His recent work focuses on acid rain and oxidant effects in oak-hickory forests, and soil biodiversity in the Ohio Valley. Dr. Loucks also leads business school and science faculty at Miami University in research and curriculum development for sustainable development. He has served on the Board of Governors of The Nature Conservancy; the Science Advisory Board; International Joint Commission; the AAAS Program Committee; and the NAS Water Science and Technology Board, co-chairing the U.S./Canada review of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
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 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). 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.
Cora Bagley Marrett
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost
University of Massachusetts-Amherst371
Whitemore Administration Bldg.
Amherst, MA 01003-8360
(413) 545-2554 or (413) 545-6223
FAX: (413) 545-2328
E-mail: cmarrett@provost.umass.edu
Knowledge of Societal Progress: A Social Science Excursion (S)
The Shaping of Research Priorities in the United States (G)
Research and Higher Education in South Africa (P)
Cora Bagley Marrett serves as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Holding a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, she served on the faculty there, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at Western Michigan University. Dr. Marrett held a resident fellowship at the National Academy of Sciences and holds a Ph.D. in humanities from Wake Forest University. Her involvement with science, engineering, and public policy includes membership on the Naval Research Advisory Committee, the Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, the Board of Governors of the Argonne National Laboratory, and the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council. She was the first assistant director for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
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 entitled Wounded 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
Issues in Multimedia Mapping (P,G,S)
Cartography of Accommodation: Maps for People with Impaired Color 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. An Honors recipient and past president of the Association of American Geographers, she is a current 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
The Art of Mixing with an Admixture of Art (P,G)
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. 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. Dr. Ottino is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Kennerly (Ken) S. Patrick
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina
171 Ashley Avenue
Charleston, SC 29425-2303
(803) 792-8429
FAX: (803) 792-0759
E-mail: Patrickk@musc.edu
Medicinal Chemistry of Methylphenidate (G,S)
Pharmacotherapy of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (P,G)
Ken Patrick is professor and acting chairman of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. His research concerns the influence of drug bioavailability and metabolism on therapeutic and toxic response, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. He received his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the University of Iowa. He was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate in neuropharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then joined the department of medicinal chemistry at the University of Tennessee at Memphis. Dr. Patrick is a reviewer for several medical journals, including the Journal of Neurochemistry, the Journal of Chromotography, and the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics. He has co-authored numerous publications and is the author of two chapters in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi.
Vera S. Pless
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (M/C 249)
University of Illinois at Chicago
851 S. Morgan, 507 SEO
Chicago, IL 60607-7045
(312) 413-2177
FAX: (312) 996-1491
E-mail: VPless@uic.edu
Web: http://www.math.uic.edu/~pless/
Changing Technology, Changing Mathematics (P)
Introduction to Error-Correcting Codes (G)
Codes and Games (G,S)
Vera Pless is a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois in Chicago and is the author of a widely used text, Introduction to the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes. She was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology under the NSF Visiting Professorships for Women Program and a Lady Davis visiting professor at the Technion in Faifa, Israel. She also served as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Pless is the author of many papers on coding and is also interested in various areas of combinatorics. Along with her research, she is presently editing a Handbook on Coding and organizing a coding and cryptography conference at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. In addition to her professional work she enjoys spending time with her three children and three grandchildren.
Mary Lucas Powell
1660 Traveller Road
Lexington, KY 40504
(606) 276-4576
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 a research associate in the William S. Webb Museum 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.
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: The Evolution of Human Diet (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 a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, and on faculty in the Departments of 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.
John H. Seinfeld
Louis E. Nohl Professor and
Chairman, Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Mail Code 104-44
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
(626) 395-4100
FAX: (626) 585-1729
E-mail: john_seinfeld@starbase1.caltech.edu
Aerosols and Climate (G,S)Frontiers in Atmospheric Chemistry (G)
John H. Seinfeld is the Louis E. Nohl Professor and Chairman of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. His research has focused on the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere, from urban air pollution to global climate. He chaired the National Research Council panels that produced the influential reports Rethinking the Ozone Problem in Urban and Regional Air Pollution (1991) and Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change (1996). He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of California. He has received awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Engineering Education, and NASA. Dr. Seinfeld is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ana M. Soto
Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison AvenueBoston, MA 02111
(617) 636-6954
FAX: (617) 636-6536
E-mail: asoto@infonet.tufts.edu
Limited availability: January–April
Control of Cell Proliferation: An Evolutionary Perspective (G,S)
Is There Anything Wrong with the Way We Study Cancer? (G,S)
Environmental Hormone Mimics and Human Health (P,G)
Ana M. Soto is an associate professor of cellular biology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Since her U.S. arrival in 1973, her research interest has been the control of cell proliferation in metazoan organisms. In particular, she studies the regulation of cell proliferation by sex steroids in breast and prostate cells, and possible health effects in humans due to hormone mimics exposure. Dr. Soto has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Hormone Active Agents and other panels dealing with endocrine disruptors. In 1995 she shared the Marla Frazin award for breast cancer research with Dr. Carlos Sonnenschein. Drs. Soto and Sonnenschein are currently working on a book concerning the control of cell proliferation.
Daniel Jean Stanley
Smithsonian Senior Oceanographer
National Museum of Natural History, Rm. E-206
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560
(202) 357-2310
FAX: (202) 786-2832
E-mail: Stanley.daniel@nmnh.si.edu
Unavailable: April–May, latter half of December and February
Modern World Deltas: Origin and Man's Early Occupation (G,S)
Nile and Yangtze Deltas: Dams and Damnation (G,S)
Daniel Jean Stanley is a Smithsonian Senior Oceanographer at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and an adjunct professor at several universities in North America, Europe, and China. His training is in geology, and his research has focused on Alpine and Mediterranean sedimentology and more recently, coastal geology of world deltas. His present work integrates Quaternary sea-level changes, modern delta evolution and geo-archaeology. He holds degrees from Cornell and Brown, and a D.Sc. from l'Ecole Nationale Superieure du Petrole et es Moteurs/Paris and Grenoble, France. He taught at Dalhousie University in Canada prior to his appointment at the Smithsonian 31 years ago. Dr. Stanley is an AAAS and GSA fellow, a frequent keynote speaker at international geological and environmental meetings, and has received the SEPM's Shephard Medal for Excellence in marine geology. His avocations include diving on archaeological sites and gardening.
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, including Nuclear 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.
Warren M. Washington
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000Boulder, CO 80307
(303) 497-1321FAX: (303) 497-1348
E-mail: wmw@.ucar.edu
What Do We Know about Climate Change? (P)
Can Climate Change Be Predicted? (G)
Computer Modeling Climate Change: Successes and Failures (S)
Warren M. Washington is a senior scientist and head of the Climate Change Research Section in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). His areas of expertise are in atmospheric science and climate research, specializing in computer modeling of the earth's climate. In Washington he works with a number of government officials and committees on climate-system modeling. Appointed by President Clinton, he also serves on the National Science Board, which helps oversee the National Science Foundation and advises the Executive Branch and Congress on science related matters. He was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences Portrait Collection of African Americans in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Recently, he was awarded the Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research Program Exceptional Service Award for Atmospheric Sciences.
Herbert G. Winful
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
1301 Beal AvenueAnn 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 of 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.