Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, was the keynote speaker for a lecture series titled “Making Choices: The History of Conflict in Medical Ethics” at the New York Academy of Medicine. His lecture was related to work that was recently published in a volume he edited,
Anglo-American Medical Ethics and Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth
Century. Baker has been named a fellow by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, supporting his research on the history of medical ethics.
Karen Brison and Stephen Leavitt, assistant professors of anthropology, co-edited a special issue of the journal
Ethos that collected papers on mourning in various cultures. Each also contributed papers to the journal.
A photo of magnified cells earned Barbara Danowski, assistant professor of biology, and her former research student,
Kenny Lee '95, an honorable mention in Nikon's twenty-first annual International Small World Competition. The cells, labeled with bodiphy phalloidin and alpha-actinin, were photographed at a magnification of 250 times under fluorescent light.
Danowski is a cell biologist specializing in microscopy, and Lee now is a research technician at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Nikon's annual contest recognizes excellence in photography through the microscope. Of the hundreds of submissions worldwide, there
were twenty prizewinners and twelve honorable mentions.
Robert Sharlet, professor of political science, has returned from a two-year leave with the Rule of Law Consortium in Washington, D.C. He recently chaired a panel at the National Slavic Conference, gave two presentations on the Russian parliamentary elections at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, spoke on the Rule of Law at the Heritage Foundation, and edited and contributed to the first three issues of
Rule of Law Consortium Newsletter about the consortium's progress in assisting law reform in Russia and the newly independent states.
Brenda Wineapple, Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, is the author of an essay, “Two: Methodology and Dual Biography,” in
Biography (Vol. 2), edited by Frederick J. Karl. The volume contains essays by nationally-known biographers about their work; Wineapple discusses
Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein, which was published this spring by G.P. Putnam's.
Richard Wilk, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is the author of articles in three journals,
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Energy and Fuels (with K.
Aniolek), and Solar Energy The Journal of the International Solar Energy Society (with J. Bolletin).