Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, was one of four American scholars convening with British and German experts on medical ethics for a month-long conference in Freiberg, Germany. The scholars are producing a tri-lingual volume on the Nuremberg Code (the basis for regulating experiments involving humans) and organizing an international conference to be held in Freiberg next year. Baker explored questions about the validity of moral standards across times and cultures.
Martin Benjamin, professor of visual arts, had an exhibit on display at the Albany Center Galleries celebrating his twenty-five year career in photography. His work is in collections ranging from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to the Center for Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
Tom Werner, the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Chemistry, has been elected chair of the Board of Governors of the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research. The board determines the overall policy for NCUR, which this year attracted 2,000 students from 300 colleges and universities. Union was host to NCUR in 1990 and again in 1995.
Brenda Wineapple, the Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, is the author of a dual biography about Gertrude and Leo Stein called Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein. The brother-sister team collaborated on many art and literary adventures of the early twentieth century. During her six years of research, Wineapple discovered a wealth of new and rare material-an early Gertrude Stein manuscript, reports of her medical career, and never-before-examined papers of Leo's. Wineapple's previous book, Genet: A Biography of Janet Flanner about the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, appeared in 1989 and has been reprinted twice.