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AnthropoSpring 2009 Log News from the University of Washington’s Department of Anthropology

In this issue: Front Cover Of Course—Anth 269: The Anthropology of Rock and Roll Of Course: Anth 269: The Anthropology of Rock and Roll

New Faculty: Assistant Professor When people hear the phrase “rock and roll anthropology. Most students enter the class ethnographic research in Mexico, Panama, and Ben Marwick music,” artists such as Elvis, Chuck Berry, Bruce expecting a lighthearted review of the history the United States. In his newest project, he

Inside Springsteen, and Neil Young might come to of rock and roll. Instead, through discussions of examines the artifacts left by undocumented mind. Most people do not immediately think of rock music, they get an in-depth exposure to migrants along the Mexico-Arizona border to Note from the Chair anthropological theories of ethnic identity some of the most serious issues studied by provide evidence for the economics of human New Faculty: Assistant Professor formation or of 19th Century German political socio-cultural anthropologists, including racism, smuggling and the life histories of Mexican and Sareeta Bipin Amrute economists. But that’s not the case for the 230 class struggles, homophobia, sexual violence, Central American migrant women and children. Drs. Peter and Amy Eby Establish the Gerald G. Eck Student Support Fund students who were recently enrolled in ANTH and drug abuse. In addition to learning about He hopes to include undergraduates in this 269: The Anthropology of Rock and Roll. They’re the connection between popular music and research. A former punk rocker turned aca- New teaching initiatives in Medical Anthropology and Global Health accustomed to hearing Karl Marx and Karl anthropology, the students also learn how to demic, Professor De León is excited to fi nally Polanyi referenced in the same breath as critically evaluate music production, including have the opportunity to bridge his love of loud Back Cover musical artists N.W.A., , and Bad techniques such as overdubbing and studio amplifi ers with political economy theory. His Professor Patricia Kramer Refl ects Brains. Or in seeing their professor put a photo mixing, to understand how music is recorded favorite aspect of the rock and roll class is on Lucy in Seattle of Bronislaw Malinowski on the same Power- and how “culture” infl uences our interpretation convincing students that anthropology is 2008 Donors to Anthropology point slide as the shock-rocker G.G. Allin. of sound. something they can fi nd everywhere, including on their iPods. “The Anthropology of Rock and Roll” is a new The mastermind behind this new course is our introductory course that uses examples of new hire, Full-Time Lecturer Jason De León. popular music as case studies to expose Professor De León is an economic anthropolo- undergraduate students to some of the major gist who has conducted archaeological and concepts and themes in socio-cultural

The B.I.G. would have a lot to say about Polanyi’s theory of embedded economics!

STUDENT COMMENTS ABOUT THE COURSE:

“This was my all time favorite class. ANTH 269 “I went into the course looking for an easy ‘cultural “I thought it was a spectacular class that wove allows students to enjoy coming to class while study of music’ class, and came out with a high the culture of rock seamlessly into discussions of learning important concepts that defi ne our appreciation and understanding of politically anthropology, addressed meaningful topics of culture and other sub-cultures. Instead of ‘having’ and culturally charged music and everything human social organizations and crises with a mix of to learn, the class makes us ‘want’ to learn. This is that surrounds it. I will not be able to watch respect and humor. And yeah, it totally rocked.” one of the most ‘real’ classes I have taken during another sexually violent music video or listen to —name withheld my three years at the University of Washington.” a Marxist-economics-based hip hop song again, —Thomas Shin, Junior, Pre-major without analyzing and critiquing its background “This class shows you a new way to observe your own and cultural constructs. Professor De León culture and the world around you. Even more so, you “The Anthropology of Rock and Roll is hands does an excellent job at engaging students and show up excited to come to class every day to see the down one of the best classes I’ve ever taken. demystifying society through his fervid openness different ways that music refl ects culture.” This is the fi rst time I’ve had a professor who and passion. It was a class I was sad to see end.” —Rebecca Wada, Sophomore, Architecture managed to convey several important, serious —Kelly Thoma, Sophomore, Anthropology issues while holding everyone’s attention and “This course gave me a real sense of purpose in making us laugh at least once each day. While the “The most diverse and meaningful anthropology Anthropology in the modern world, the discourses content was important and I learned something course I’ve ever taken, which was a result of impacting our lives that take place in recreational meaningful in each lecture, it was really the way Jason’s passion and personal knowledge of the realms, and the important choices we make as the concepts were presented that made them so topics of the course.” music consumers.” interesting. Our professor was enthusiastic about —Steven Ritchey, Junior, Pre-major —Michael Galtney, Junior, Anthropology his work and hilarious in teaching it. I would defi nitely take one of his classes again.” —Christina Snailum, Senior, Anthropology Karl Marx would have loved hip-hop music!

New Faculty: Assistant Professor Ben Marwick

Ben Marwick joined the Department of involves exploring the archaeological record for analyzing patterns in stone artifact scatters, Anthropology as an assistant professor in evidence of climate variability. Using a set of surface geology and geomorphology in arid March 2008, coming to us from The Australian marine bivalves collected in northern Australia, South Australia. The archaeology of this region National University in Canberra. Ben began his Ben is looking at the changes in the distribution is unique because of the very high density of career studying human behavioral ecology and of oxygen and carbon isotopes throughout the artifacts and sites. Ben and his colleagues environmental archaeology during the period mid- to late Holocene as a marker for changes in have developed a number of new mobile 40,000-50,000 years ago in northwest Thailand. climate through time. geographic information systems to collect and manage this richness of data. Since coming to UW, he’s been extending that Other new research has taken him both further Ben Marwick (white hat) training Thai archaeology students in fi eld work in a number of directions. One very back and more forward in time. Further back in Since arriving, Ben has taught courses in survey, northwest Thailand exciting direction with great relevance for today time, he is continuing his work in Thailand to anthropology and archaeology, including the examine hominin ecology and technology during undergraduate honors class, ‘Archaeology in the Middle Pleistocene. Later in time, he is Film’, ‘Geoarchaeology’ and ‘Archaeology and working in the neighboring country of Laos as Explanation’. The fi lm class is one of Ben’s part of the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project. most popular classes. In the summer of Ben has been involved in three fi eld seasons of 2008—while he was teaching the class for the survey and excavation there to investigate the fi rst time at UW—he actually played the part of transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural a professor of archaeology in a full-length modes of subsistence. He is also reaching into feature fi lm to be released later in 2009. In later periods with recent fi eldwork in the Lao 2009 he will also teach a new course called National Museum in Luang Prabang, examining ‘Mainland Southeast Asian Archaeology’. He is the craft traditions of bronze Buddha statues. currently the Honors Program Coordinator for the Anthropology Department and affi liated The fi nal new direction for Ben is into Australian with the UW Center for Statistics in the Social arid zone archaeology and geomorphology. In Sciences and the UW Quaternary Research collaboration with one of his PhD advisers, he Center. Welcome, Ben! has been involved in three fi eld seasons of Note from the chair

Hello everyone! I am thrilled to be the new environmental and health rights. Professor dissertation, “Producing Mobility: Indian IT person offering greetings from the chair’s offi ce Steve Harrell talked about his recent work in Workers in Germany,” explores how Indian in the Department of Anthropology. Last year southwest China, which involves collaborations information technology workers create acting chair Alison Wylie stated that it had been on social and environmental interactions circulating economies and sustain new forms of a year of transitions, with more in store. And I’m around Yangjuan Primary School. As founder of kinship and connectivity at home. We also pleased to say that I am the fi nal step in our the Cool Mountain Education Fund, he supports welcome our new lecturer, Jason De León. chair transition process–what some have called education as an effective means of promoting Although his dissertation research at “musical chairs.” I had the wonderful experience environmental stewardship and socioeconomic Pennsylvania State University focused on of working with former chair Miriam Kahn and development in this rural community. And Mesoamerican archaeology, his current acting chair Charles Keyes by way of serving on fi nally, I was our third presenter, describing research and much of his teaching integrate their executive committees, and last year with how my work on female genital cutting in Africa archaeology and sociocultural anthropology in acting chair Alison Wylie by serving as her has moved beyond its original focus on health creative ways. He has added some exciting new associate chair. They have all been tremendous consequences and cultural meanings to the courses to our curriculum, including role models and generous mentors as I have realm of global politics. For example, I recently “Anthropology of Rock and Roll,” which is settled into this new position. helped in the re-drafting of the United Nations featured in the “Of Course” section of this issue policy on female genital cutting; I have also AnthropoLog I’m delighted to have been part of the team that of . served as an expert witness in local asylum produced this 2009 issue of AnthropoLog In this issue of AnthropoLog you’ll fi nd news hearings. (which includes Miriam Kahn, who founded about some of our exciting curriculum innova- AnthropoLog in 2001, our organizer-extraordi- This year we have celebrated several outstand- tions and recent events in the Department of naire Steve Goodreau, and our talented ing achievements of our faculty. Gene Hunn Anthropology. We are, indeed, lucky to have so graduate students Andrew Cowan, Mark received the “American Publishers Award for much to be celebrating, and are happy to be Madsen and Lauren Rhodes). This same team Professional and Scholarly Excellence” for his able to share this with all of you. And for those spearheaded our 2009 Spring Outreach event, new book, “A Zapotec Natural History.” Devon who enjoy receiving these updates, please note the theme of which was “Anthropology in Peña was elected chair of the National that next year we will be moving to an online Action.” This year’s event showcased the Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, only version of AnthropoLog. Thus, we ask you usefulness of anthropology beyond the the nation’s oldest and most prominent to help us update our email contact list be academic setting and highlighted the public scholarly organization dedicated to the study of visiting our website at http://depts.washington. participation of several of our faculty members. Mexican-origins people in Mexico and the edu/anthweb. We look forward to staying in Lecturer Holly Barker, who for twenty years has United States. And in front of a standing-room touch with all our friends of anthropology! been working with Marshall Islanders, both in only crowd at the annual meeting of the Best, the South Pacifi c and in the Pacifi c Northwest, American Anthropological Association, Lorna Bettina Shell-Duncan discussed her collaborative, activist efforts. Rhodes received the Society of Medical She works with Marshallese who, after serving Anthropology’s Career Achievement Award. as unsuspecting participants and victims in U.S. What an exciting year! nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War, We are also very pleased to welcome two new are now speaking up to claim their colleagues. Sareeta Amrute has joined our sociocultural anthropology program. Her

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New Faculty: Assistant Professor Sareeta Bipin Amrute

One day in 2001, while she was a graduate ways, in reality the diaspora experience is inhabit. Interviews also have a surprising ability student in anthropology at the University of personal, varied and alive.” She decided to focus to reveal unexpected ways that people imagine Chicago, Sareeta Amrute’s future dissertation on computer engineers and all their unique their lives and remake their worlds. project leaped out at her from the front page of complexity, in part because she wanted to see After receiving her PhD in 2008, Professor Amrute an international newspaper. Germany, a country how transnational, temporary migration taught at the New School for Social Research for a known for its strong science and engineering experiences affected the way in which young year before joining the faculty at the University of programs, was issuing temporary visas for people from India imagined and lived their lives. Washington. Professor Amrute is currently writing software engineers. What especially caught her Professor Amrute’s research methods are a book based on her dissertation, tentatively attention was that most of these engineers were motivated by her desire to go beneath the titled “The Circulation of Capital and Code”. She projected to come from India. She immediately commonsense notion of things to understand the is also beginning work on a new, India-centered envisioned a project that spoke to the layered, relationship between how people experience research project, which seeks to understand complicated world that was developing all their lives and how those experiences then relationships between service workers and around her. Her fi eldwork, which she eventually become part of greater phenomena. We often scientists in India’s Information Technology carried out in Berlin, focused on the “Green Card have an intuitive understanding of basic human complexes. She wants to explore the tensions Regime” (as the temporary visa scheme was needs and emotions, and we often understand between upper and lower caste and class workers called) and how ideas about race and migration the greater categories into which we compart- that have arisen in the IT industry, especially were changing in new multicultural Germany. mentalize our lives (the economy, society, ethics, around women in the workplace. She also She also wanted to understand how Indian IT law, etc.), but what we do not fully understand is believes that new more responsive technology- workers made a life for themselves in labor and how these relate to one another. According to driven development projects can become possible migration diaspora. Professor Amrute, anthropology is perfectly through collaboration between service workers Her family’s history lies at the core of her interest situated to make these connections. and IT shops. Drawing on her work, she has in waves of migration from India. As she explains, Ethnographic interviews are tools of the trade created an exciting new course entitled “My parents taught me that even though the that can reveal the underlying assumptions that “Technology in Modern India.” story of migration is often portrayed in simplistic act as links between people and the worlds they Drs. Peter and Amy Eby Establish the Gerald G. Eck Student Support Fund for Undergraduate Honors Students

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to upper-division course on human fossils and Dr. Eby said, “Dr. Eck stood out as someone announce the foundation of another new evolution from Dr. Eck, he was enthralled. The who really helped me at a crucial stage in my endowment to support our students. The course quickly became his favorite. By the end career and education. He defi nitely helped me Gerald G. Eck Student Support Fund will of the course, Dr. Eck had encouraged Peter to succeed as an undergraduate, which facilitated provide fi nancial support specifi cally to our sign up for the department honors program, my getting into medical school.” undergraduate honors students. Moreover, it and agreed to supervise his senior honors If you’re interested in contributing to the Gerald will honor the distinguished career and thesis on the evolution of the hominid pelvis. G. Eck Student Support Fund, there are two contributions of Dr. Gerald Eck, who recently Dr. Eby credits Dr. Eck with providing the ways to do so. One is to send a check (made retired after thirty-three years of service to the encouragement and support that led him to out to “Department of Anthropology” with the UW’s Department of Anthropology. medical school at Vanderbilt University. Upon “Gerald G. Eck Fund” listed in the memo line of Drs. Peter and Amy Eby established the Eck returning to Seattle in 2000 (with his wife Dr. your check) to the Chair, Department of Fund to assist honors students with tuition, Amy Eby), Dr. Peter Eby completed a residency Anthropology, Box 353100, University of study abroad, research travel, and other in radiology, and was asked to join the UW Washington, Seattle WA 98195. Or, go to the expenses associated with education and faculty in 2005. department webpage (http://depts.washington. edu/anthweb) and click on “Alumni and building a research career. Dr. Peter Eby, When the University recently approached Friends,” then on “Make a Gift,” and then on currently an Assistant Professor of Radiology at faculty with a “challenge grant” opportunity, the UW School of Medicine and Seattle Cancer “View Other Funds for this Department.” We offering to match donations 1:1 up to $10,000, UPPER: The Eby family (L to thank Drs. Peter and Amy Eby for establishing R, Amy, Jacob, Peter, Morgan); Care Alliance, received his bachelor’s degree the Ebys jumped at the chance to give back to with honors from our department in 1993. Dr. this wonderful fund. And we thank you for LOWER: Professor Emeritus the University community. Dr. Eby specifi cally Gerry Eck (center) with four of considering making a donation to it. Eby initially chose anthropology for his major wanted to give to the Department of his former students because he thought the subject matter was Anthropology because, compared to medicine, exciting. But when he took a two-quarter anthropology receives far less funding. As

Rachel Chapman (second from right) meeting with home-based care activists growing food and medicinal plants in Mozambique New teaching initiatives in Medical Anthropology and Global Health

“Seattle is becoming a new center for global skills that cuts across the traditional sub- effort and make it easier for everyone.” In the health research.” This headline in the Seattle disciplinary boundaries within anthropology. past, students who completed an MPH on their Post-Intelligencer highlighted a major trend Students can select from more than 20 courses own along with their anthropology PhD have that has been developing over the last decade relating to health and illness, and take the new been actively recruited on the job market for in our corner of the world, one in which the “Capstone Cases in Medical Anthropology and both academic and applied health positions. Department of Anthropology has played an Global Health.” The program is proving popular According to MAGH faculty affi liate Rachel active role. The number of faculty who work on among students planning to continue their Chapman, “Next year is the fi rst where the health and disease from the molecular to the anthropology education after graduation, as streamlined concurrent degree program will be global level has been growing steadily, as have well as those going into the medical professions. in place. We’re already seeing a tremendously their connections and collaborations with other As Newsweek recently reported, social science strong pool of applicants for next year, and health research programs and centers in the majors have become increasingly attractive we’re excited about the prospects.” Puget Sound region. The number of students to medical schools because they bring skills MAGH is just the fi rst of a number of tracks at both the undergraduate and graduate levels that the health professions are coming to that the department is developing to help interested in these timely topics has also value more and more. Whether it be a greater students highlight themes within their grown. In response to these developments, the understanding of cultural diversity, more undergraduate coursework. Others currently anthropology department recently launched a familiarity with the evolutionary causes of under consideration include environmental collection of new curricular initiatives, collec- disease, or an awareness of the political and anthropology, transnational studies, and tively called “Medical Anthropology and Global economic contexts within which people make applied anthropology. Stay tuned for more Health,” or MAGH for short. their medical decisions, health professionals information as these develop. with anthropological training are well poised Department Chair Bettina Shell-Duncan to “treat the whole person.” For students For more information on MAGH, including spearheaded the effort. “The department has wishing to take that path, MAGH provides ideal information on becoming a community affi liate a number of top-notch scholars working in preparation. of the program, please contact Steve Goodreau this area, in both sociocultural and biocultural ([email protected]). anthropology. We already had considerable Graduate students can approach the MAGH UPPER: Recent research by course offerings, but found it was hard for experience in two ways. One is as an undergrad- medical anthropologist Janelle Taylor; LOWER: Benjamin students to navigate the many resources uate taking coursework that uniquely integrates Hanowell, hard at work in available. MAGH will help them integrate the approaches from social, cultural, medical and the Reproductive Ecology Laboratory Seminar resources in our programs with those around biocultural anthropology. A second is to enroll campus, and to have some recognition of what in the PhD /MPH concurrent-degree program. they’ve learned.” As Shell-Duncan says, “This program grew out of the awareness that many of our students For undergraduates, MAGH represents a “track,” were fi nding their own ways to take advantage or one way that they can select their coursework of the intellectual resources in the School of to develop a coherent set of knowledge and Public Health. We wanted to coordinate the AnthropoLog Please direct all corrections, questions, and inquiries to AnthropoLog Credits University of Washington Department of Anthropology, [email protected] Faculty Staff Box 353100 206-543-5240 Sareeta B. Amrute Rick Aguilar Seattle, WA 98195-3100 Ann S. Anagnost John Cady Laada Bilaniuk Michael Caputi Rachel R. Chapman Diane Guerra This newsletter can also be found online at http://depts.washington.edu/anthweb Angela E. Close Joni Marts Jason De León David Nichols James K. Feathers Catherine Zeigler Ben Fitzhugh Steven M. Goodreau Production AnthropoLog Non-Profi t Organization Donald K. Grayson Rick Aguilar US Postage Stevan Harrell University of Washington Michael Caputi Daniel J. Hoffman PAID Andrew Cowen Darryl Holman Department of Anthropology Steven Goodreau Carol Z. Jolles Seattle, Washington Miriam Kahn Miriam Kahn Box 353100 Mark Madsen Permit No 62 Patricia Kramer Lauren Rhodes Peter V. Lape Seattle, Washington 98195-3100 Bettina Shell-Duncan Donna L. Leonetti Alison Wylie Marcos Llobera Celia Lowe Design Ben Marwick Laura L. Newell Jim Montgomery: original Kathleen O’Connor Jessie Schutzenhofer: current Arzoo Osanloo Devon Peña Lorna A. Rhodes Bettina Shell-Duncan Eric A. Smith Julie K. Stein Janelle S. Taylor Sasha Welland Alison Wylie

Professor Patricia Kramer Refl ects on Lucy in Seattle

As I write this, the six-month run of Lucy’s plants that at fi rst seem surprisingly mysteri- Every time I visited the exhibit (which I did at Legacy: the Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia winds ous to our eyes. But we soon connect … to the least half a dozen times), people stopped and down to its fi nal hour. The people of the Pacifi c young female who died in the prime of her life, listened to me as I was explaining parts of Northwest have been treated to a phenomenal to the three individuals who walked across the exhibit to the friends or family members experience, courtesy of the dedicated staff of an ash-covered meadow at Laetoli and left I was with. These strangers pressed me with Seattle’s Pacifi c Science Center. As the exhibit their footprints for posterity, and to the infant questions (that I was only too happy to answer): closes, I feel the need to refl ect on the excite- whose nearly complete skeleton was found at Who are you? How do you know that? Where ment of being a part of it all. Dikika. Their stories become our stories. And, can I fi nd out more? Anthropology? What’s that? just think, if we are connected to Lucy, what The 3.2 million-year-old fossil specimen of Anthropology, the study of humankind, of does this say about our relationship to all the Australopithecus afarensis, known affection- course unites all of us—current and past people with whom we share the planet? ately around the world as “Lucy,” was the star of denizens of Denny Hall—who are reading this the show. The importance of Lucy, and indeed Many colleagues, friends and students have article. But my experience working on the Lucy of paleoanthropology, is that fossils give us a told me what a memorable experience it was exhibit reminds me that anthropology is best window into the world of our distant ancestors, for them to see Lucy. But what struck me the experienced, and serves as the greatest human in this case, an African world with animals and most was the enthusiasm of total strangers. connector, in the application of it. All the ridges and crevices on fossils, which so fascinate me, do so because they tell me a story of a life lived The world’s most famous fossil, L: A reunion of paleontolo- known as “Lucy,” has been on display gists who worked at Hadar, millions of years ago. Standing in the room for the fi rst time outside of Ethiopia in including our very own with Lucy for the fi rst time will always be a high the world-premiere special exhibition Gerry Eck (left), held in Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures conjunction with the Lucy point in my life, but Lucy’s legacy is the telling of Ethiopia. Courtesy of the Houston exhibit; R: Patricia Kramer of her story—of our story—to all of humankind. Museum of Natural Science

2008 Donors to Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology would like to extend our deepest gratitude to all of our donors this year. Your generosity is crucial in allowing us to provide new opportunities for our students and faculty to learn, teach, explore, and make a difference!

David Agoada, DPM Peter J. Fiore Darryl J. Holman Laura L. Newell-Morris, PhD State of Washington Ann S. Anagnost, PhD Janet M. Fleck Joanne K. Hoover Philip L. Newman, PhD Diane D. Stephenson Eugene N. Anderson Margery W. Forman Andrew M. Houg, D.S Marc D. Newman Robinette Struckel Nancy S. Anderson Diane N. Fox Robert H. Hudziak Daniel D. Nickols Lynn R. Sullivan Terry Lee Atwater Jamie Franklin Eugene Hunn Catherine J. Nilon Nancy J. Swails, PhD Jefferey L. Babauta David M. Freeman Kimberly L. Johnson David Samuel Notkin, PhD Mark C. Terry Michael M. Barnes Jason T. Froggatt Miriam Kahn Kathleen A. O’Connor, PhD The Boeing Company Diane E. Barry Yunqi Fu Laura H. Klein Jane W. Peterson, PhD Gail Thompson, PhD Margaret R. Berger Patricia B. Fuqua Gail J. Konen Vincent F. Phillips Peggy L. Tlapak Chris C. Binckley William Galloway Helen C. Kramer Wendy P. Phillips Carolyn M. Wallace, PhD Shelly R. Bosserman Mrs. Sarah M. Garner Judd W. Lawson Marguerite M. Pinkers Jeffrey B. White Carol B. Braun, MD Georgine Z. Gillispie Donna Lockwood Leonetti, PhD Sherril M. Pitkin Curtis W. Wienker, PhD Alan L. Bryan, MD David B. Givens, PhD Paula D. Lindsay Amara Pongsapich Deborah E. Wilson Elizabeth L. Byerly, PhD Melvyn C. Goldstein, PhD Doris M. Linkletter Karen A. Porter Margaret Alison Wylie Edward W. Connell Steven M. Goodreau Carole L. Linse Patricia H. Pugsley Melissa A. Yeager Mary H. Cressy C. Jill Grady Professor Celia Lowe Allan S. Richardson Curtis Wienker Trust James W. Green, PhD Kimberley Lucas, PhD Carolyn Patterson Sawin, PhD William S. Dancey, PhD Robert E. Greengo Melissa J. Maki Gerald F. Schroedl Nancy Y. Davis, PhD Yvonne Hajda, PhD Joanne M. Marchione Edmund Q. S. Searles, PhD Lydia A. DeSantis, PhD Benjamin Hanowell Nancy K. Marshall Sam J. Senturia Andrea G. Drusini Stevan Harrell, PhD Siobhan M. Mattison Deborah M. Furtado Seymour Peter R. Eby, MD Judy A. Hayashida E. Hollis Mentzer, PhD Joseph Robert Siebert, PhD Lawrence Epstein, PhD Brian T. Hiestand Tracy N. Middlebrook Suzanne L. Siegel ExxonMobil Foundation Pamelia S. Hilty Lanae K. Miner Linda M. Squires Stephanie E. Faulkner Janice Kay Hodge Dina L. Moreno Janet J. Stanley