VERITAFor the Faculty and Staff of the University of Mi: March-April 1997 VolumSe 39 Number 6 Seven to receive honorary degrees

oted architects Denise Scott sy-nthesis of nucleic acids. He is the Bethune-Cookman College and Florida affiliated with a number of the great Brown and Robert Venturi. a recipient of numerous other awards, Memorial College, chairman emeritus medical institutions in the United Nhusband-wife team, will be including the Max Berg Award for Pro­ of the United Protestant Appeal, and States, including Cornell Medical Col­ honored at this year's Commencement longing Human Life and the Scientific vice president of the Black Archives lege, the Mayo Clinic, and the Univer­ on May- 9, along with a host of famous Achievement Award of the American Research Foundation. Among his many- sity of Pittsburgh. His books and achievers including Sarah Caldwell; Medical Association. honors are the Greater Miami Urban teachings have influenced the way mil­ William H. Gray III; a\rthur Romberg; Garth C. Reeves, reporter, editor, League's Distinguished Service Award, lions of children were raised. Garth C. Reeves, Sr.; and Benjamin publisher, banker, entrepreneur, and the American Jew-ish Committee's Robert Venturi. a Philadelphia McLane Spock. In addition to receiving community activist, attended Dade Human Relations Award, the Boy- native, graduated from Princeton Uni­ an honorary- doctorate. Reeves will County Public Schools and received Scouts Silver Beaver award and the Sil­ versity. His firm. Venturi, Scott Brown deliver the Commencement address. his bachelor's degree from Florida ver Medallion of the National Confer­ and Associates, Inc., has made its mark Denise Scott Brow-n, a principal A&M College. Publisher emeritus of ence for service to humanity. Reeves on modern architecture with works with the Philadelphia architectural firm The Miami Times and recipient of The was named three times the National including art museums, medical Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Miami Heralds 1996 Spirit of Excel­ Newspaper Publishers Association's research laboratories, government Inc., studied in South Africa and lence Award, Reeves w-as the first Publisher of the Year and has been a buildings, resort facilities, and many- London before receiving two master's African-American to serve on the Pulitzer juror. more throughout the United States, degrees from the University of Penn­ Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Benjamin McLane Spock. the France and Japan. His numerous sylvania. The recipient of an honorary- the South Florida Council of Boy- renowned baby- doctor, was trained at awards include, among others, the doctorate in fine arts from her alma Scouts, and the United Way. He also is Yale University and Columbia Universi­ National Medal of .Arts, 1992. Venturi mater, Scott Brown has received the first African-American trustee of ty w-here he received his medical has served as assistant and associate numerous awards during her 32-year Miami-Dade Community College and degree in 1929. A noted specialist in professor of architecture at the Univer­ career, including the National Medal of Barry University, a former t pediatric psychiatry-, Spock has been sity of Pennsylvania. .Arts (1992). She has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University-, and the University of Pennsylvania. UM sweeps CASE awards competition Sarah Caldwell, opera producer, conductor, stage director, and adminis­ he University- of Miami recently- cial Merit Awards for the cate­ trator, has conducted or directed many was recognized with a record gories of public affairs programs, of this country's premier orchestras Tnumber of top awards in this news story, feature story-, and and opera companies including the year's CASE (Council for the Advance­ video new-s releases. Top honors New- York Metropolitan Opera, the ment and Support of Education) Dis­ for institutional relations programs Dallas Civic Opera, and the New York trict III competition, according to Roy were awarded to the Office of Philharmonic Orchestra. Trained at the J. Nirschel, Jr., vice president for uni­ Medical Public Relations for link­ University of .Arkansas and the New- versity advancement. ing its day-to-day media relations, England Conservatory of Music, Cald­ Grand Aw-ards, the highest achieve­ publications, marketing communi­ well directed the Boston University- ment, were given to UM for: cations, and special events activi­ Opera Workshop in the 1950s and later • Publications Program ties to the School of Medicine's founded what w-as to become the • Alumni Relations Program goals and objectives. Opera Company of Boston. • Institutional Relations Program for "These awards reflect the William H. Gray III, president and the Office of Medical Public Relations esteem in which the University— chief executive officer of The College • aAnnual Reports and its Advancement Division—is Fund UNCF. has led The College Fund "Seven Decades of Achievement," held by its peers," Nirschel says, to new- fundraising records while cut­ the University's 70th anniversary- cele­ adding that UM competed with ting costs and expanding programs bration, won an Award of Excellence many- fine, long-established uni­ and services. A former U.S. Congress­ for Institutional Relations Programs. versities for these honors. man who served as chairman of the In addition to the Grand Award for "The awards are a tribute to Democratic Caucus, Gray was the Publications Program, the Office of the quality- of people we attract highest ranking African-American ever University- Communication receiv-ed and retain in University Advance­ to serve in Congress. He has been a Awards of Excellence for Miami maga­ ment." Nirschel continues. "The Seated: Chris Dudley, assistant vice president professor of history- and religion at zine in the alumni magazines category, publications we produce do a for medical communication (left), Jerry Lewis, Jersey City State College, Montclair and the 1996 President s Report and wonderful job of reflecting student executive director of university communication State College, Eastern Baptist Theologi­ 1996 Financial Report in the editorial and academic issues and research (right); Standing (left to right): Paula J. Musto, cal Seminary, and Temple University. design category. Miami magazine also activities. On the alumni side, the assistant vice president for university relations; Gray is a graduate of Franklin and received a Special Merit Award for deans and everyone involved with Roy J. Nirschel, Jr., vice president for Marshall College with master s degrees design. admissions, career counseling, the university advancement; Jeffrey L. Newton, from Drew Theological Seminary and The Division of University Advance­ athletic program, student affairs, assistant vice president for development and Princeton Theological Seminary. ment won a Special Merit Award in the and many others are as integral to alumni relations. Not pictured: Kathy Uitvlugt, Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg. educational fundraising category for our alumni relations program as is executive director of alumni relations. one of the premier biochemists of our the Lowe An Museum 2000 Campaign. the alumni staff. Thus, w hile we time, has been a professor at Stanford Additionally, the Office of Medical receive these awards, we do so on aw ards programming director for the L'niversity since 1959 where he served Public Relations, which shared Grand behalf of everyone who promotes and Washington. D.C.-based organization. as chairman of the Department of Bio­ Award honors with the Office of Uni- represents the University." "These awards recognize excellence in chemistry for ten years. Kornberg v ersity Communication for the "The CASE Awards Program is the field of advancement and hold the shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Cen­ designed as an educational service for winners up as models of exemplary- 1959 for his work on the biological ter Annual Report, received five Spe­ our members." says Joanne Cadett. work for others to learn from." 'Harvey' enables physicians to grasp full spectrum of heart disease

e is a strapping specimen, the breathing, pulses, heart sounds, and type who might shop at the murmurs. Harvey trains some 20,000 Hbig and tall man specialty- medical learners a y-ear at 45 medical shops, and his wide chest is heaving centers in the United States and kvith distress. His blue-gray ey-es stare around the world. impassionately- at the ceiling. Harvey, celebrating 20 years of A group of University of Miami operation, was the brainchild of *. medical students huddle around the Michael S. Gordon, M.D.. professor of patient, comparing his pulse to the clinical cardiology-, who conceived the "whoosh" of turbulent blood flow they idea based on his experience of treat­ hear with stethoscopes poised over the ing airline pilots for would-be heart ailing patient's heart. .All signs point to conditions. a leaky aortic valve, or aortic regurgita­ "I wouldn't fly in an airplane with a tion, a condition often requiring pilot who wasn't trained in a simula­ lm surgery. tor," he asks. "Would you?" Alarmingly enough, however, only The director of the Medical Training Michael S. Gordon, M.D. (center), professor of clinical cardiology, uses "Harvey" to the day before he exhibited signs of and Simulation Laboratory (MTSL) teach medical school students. coronary artery disease, add to that applied the same learning-by-doing hypertrophic myopathy, and a host of principles when he set out to build in to sharpen his clinical skills, he met patients from too much ex other cardiac conditions. 1967 a surrogate patient, the first of its W. Proctor Harvey, the renowned car­ The Harvey method pays off, says What's a soul to do? Fortunately, type, for medical students and physi­ diologist, and within months had Gordon. A national multi-center study our good patient, "Harvey," is a cardi­ cians to hone their bedside diagnosis changed his career aspirations to that demonstrated that students trained on ology patient simulator who lays claim skills. of clinician and teacher. the manikin outperform those who to a total of 27 heart conditions. The As a young practitioner, Gordon Harvey, named after the George­ practice on people. full-size manikin serves up virtually had intended to be a research bio­ town mentor and developed over a But because Harvey appears so any cardiac problem at the touch of a chemist. But w-hen he left the Mayo period of ten years, combined Gor­ "human"—his respiration and other vital button, including blood pressure, Clinic to go to Georgetown University don's two passions—research and signs appear real and his polyvinyl- technology, and medical education. chloride epidermis has the same look Originally fashioned by an animation and feel of human skin—he proves studio in New York City—he is now especially suited to bedside exams. UM offers high quality, affordable fully constructed on site at the medical What makes Harvey tick is hidden campus—Harvey originally presented beneath the examining table, an ele­ video production service three cardiac conditions in separate gant chassis containing an array of tim­ manikins. But despite being so afflict­ ing belts, cams, and gears that e may not "do weddings, bar "Our production costs are, on aver­ ed, Harvey is what they call a coordinate in various ways to replicate mitzvahs, and quincerasf but age, 40 to 50 percent lower than other "hunk"—he was molded from the the vital signs of the assorted diseases. Hhe does provide high quality, production companies, simply because body of a barrel-chested young med­ Today's version, updated with digital affordable video production services I'm my staff," Gilstad says. ical student and they had a lot of sound and modular mechanics, is less for departments throughout the Gilstad came to UM from a small apparatus to pack in. than a year old but a fully computer- University. public television station in northern Today, every Harvey comes driven model is already on the draw­ Since founding the program in Idaho where he was a producer. Prior equipped w-ith a full complement of ing board. 1983, Larry Gilstad, director of video to that, he started a similar production cardiac problems, plus a set of accom­ Harvey's many incarnations have services in the Office of University service for the University of Idaho. panying software, providing all the come a long way in 30 years, when a Continuously at the clinical data to enable students to makeup artist fashioned him to look forefront of new make a reasonable diagnosis. like then-president Lyndon Baines developments in the "The benefit of Harvey is that stu­ Johnson. Though his face is now field, he clearly is dents can practice doing a good car­ pleasantly anonymous, we can't help excited about incor­ diac physical exam again and again," but warn President Clinton to lay off porating the latest says Joan May-er, M.D., director of the the junk food. Don't want you to clog state-of-the-art tech­ MTSL's cardiology teaching programs. nologies in his aVnd that spares real, recovering —Leslie Sternlieb

"Its really exciting how- far this opera­ tion has come," he muses. "From the back room of the Ponce Building where we started Larry Gilstad offers state-of-the-art video production with just a manual at his Coral Gables studio. typewriter, we've progressed to where Communication, has produced videos were now fully operational as a digital for a multitude of purposes: fundrais­ non-linear editing service. This gives ing, recruitment, orientation, training, us the flexibility to shoot scenes in the news releases, public service field, bring them back, record them announcements, documentaries, and into the computer, and insert them the University's halftime spot seen dur­ anywhere we like in the production— ing football and basketball telecasts. something like dragging and dropping His range of assignments can vary text in a word processing program." from brain surgery one day. to a com­ mercial for Canterbury Day Care removes technical restrictions from the another day, to an underwater video of creative process and makes updating students in a summer scholars program or changing a program a lot easier." the next. he says. Ambassador speaks at GSIS program A veritable "one man band"—writer, Gilstad encourages any-one interest­ producer, director, editor, videograph- ed in video production services to Ambassador Philip C. Wilcox, Jr. (right), of the U.S. Department of State, the er, narrator, lighting director, and view- his demo tape. It is available featured speaker at a February program on Terrorism In and From the Middle sound person—Gilstad offers the same either on loan or in his studio at East: The U.S. Perspective," confers with Haim Shaked, director of the Middle high quality service as other produc­ 1540 Corniche. For more details, call East Studies Institute, Graduate School of International Studies, at the institute's tion facilities, but without the high-cost 284-1602. Sixth Annual Norman and Irma Braman Foundation Lecture. overhead. — Susan Lichtman Bill Butler: More than three decades dedicated to University life

veryone thinks they- know Bill ored Butier with the Scott He married, received his n Buder. Goodnight Award for the psychology, and in 1951 set out with E You know. the man in The outstanding student his bride in a 1941 Plymouth coupe for Uniform: orange-and-green striped tie, affairs administrator in the unknown wilds of Kansas, where green blazer, white pants, socks, shoes. 1996-97 at its aMarch con­ he earned his doctorate and became The man who greets you on the path­ vention in Chicago. foreign student advisor. The position way- and mysteriously knows your But Butler also wins opened his eyes—"There were people name. Who mysteriously remembers praise from what many- from all over the world. I fell in love your name four years later. Who wel­ ersity administrators with diversity"—and later determined comes you into his spacious, carpeted might have then called his course at the University of Miami. office. Wants to hear what you think, no "the enemy." the radical One persuasive phone call from Pres­ matter who you are, and really listens to students who had a natur­ ident Henry King Stanford lured Butler y-our opinion, no matter how- outlandish al antipathy- toward offi­ to the University of Miami in 1965. or radical it may- be. The man who's cialdom and anyone who Since then. Butler's hand has carved been such an ubiquitous and idiosyn­ represented it. many of the historic milestones shaping cratic presence on campus for 32 years Listen to Jim Yasser, the campuses. It was Butier who super­ that it's hard to imagine what the Uni­ Class of '71, who as the vised the construction of the towering versity of Miami will be like without 1969-70 student govern­ residence halls and later, the residential him when he retires this May. ment president was a colleges. It was Butier who set up pro­ Sure, everyone knows Bill Butler. leader of protests at a grams to recruit students from around But did y-ou know that the illustrious time when "Kent State" the world, making it the international vice president for student affairs once was a war cry and Martin institution it is today. It was Butier who took off his storied coat and tie to ride Luther King a rallying served as a mediator during the tense a bicycle all the way from the Grand symbol of discontent. demonstrations and sit-ins of the '60s Canyon to Miami? That was back in Bill Butler serves orange juice—and encouragement- Students were closely- and '70s, sparing the campus from the 1975, when he was a young man of to students at a Midnight Breakfast. involved with Butler, violence marking many other colleges. 50. Did you know he's still a force to recalls Yasser, today a aAnd it was Butler who helped integrate be reckoned with on the racquetball w-hen times got tense, as they so often New York real estate developer. "He the University- by creating a scholarship court? Would you ever guess that the did during the tumultuous '60s and provided extraordinary leadership. He program that enabled low-income polished speaker at countless black-tie '70s, and sometimes do today. had a passionate and compassionate minorities to enroll. fund-raising events is really a simple "He represented the students beauti­ In fact, his proudest accomplish­ Illinois country boy? fully. We were a great team, and he Or Stuart Weiss, the now-repentant ment is the Center for Student Volun­ It's true. The man behind The Uni­ was of tremendous assistance," says radical from the Class of '72 who is teer Services, which he founded in form is more complex than the sim­ President Emeritus Henry King Stan­ now president of his own Miami ad 1989, and where more than half of all plicity of the attire would lead you to ford, who worked alongside Butler agency: "Bill Butier had to put up with undergraduates today go to help the believe. Bill Butier is a study in contra­ during the sit-ins, demonstrations, us. He was a genuinely car­ dictions, a man of humble origins who protests, and rock concerts which char­ ing, good person who became sophisticated through his edu­ acterized that turbulent era. helped us misguided youth." Butler receives prestigious award cation, but w-ho never forgot his roots. Kudos at the national level recently "The students love him. As a result, he developed a special were offered by his peers, the National They relate to him. You William R. Butler recently received the National empathy he has long shared with both Association of Student Personnel could approach him with Association of Student Personnel Administrators' students and administrators, even Administrators (NASPA), which hon- anything," says Pat Whitely, (NASPA) Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding the current director of the Performance as a Dean. The presentation was made University Center and student in March at a joint convention sponsored by NASPA life who will assume Butler's and the American College Personnel Association in Agency representatives offer position starting June 1. Chicago, Illinois. This gregarious man was NASPA's Scott Goodnight Award recognizes an funding tips born and raised in Robinson, individual who is respected by colleagues and Illinois, population 4.000. students for his or her outstanding and sustained he annual Retreat on Funding w-ere on hand to provide the funda­ "You know three things service to an institution, the profession, the Resources, held February 11 at mentals of grant writing and tips on about Robinson," Butler say-s, community, and society. It is often referred to as the Tthe Biltmore Hotel, offered 200 getting grants approved. deadpan. "Heath candy bars "Dean's Dean" award and the "gold ring" of student faculty and staff members the oppor­ "It was extremely useful for our fac­ are made there. James Jones, affairs. tunity to get grant writing advice ulty members to have people involved who wrote From Here to "Bill Butler is truly a dean's dean," says Johan in these agencies' operations Eternity, grew up there. And Madson, associate provost and dean of students at explain the funding process," says I was born and raised there." Vanderbilt University. "He has been a mentor to Steve Ullmann, vice provost for The son of a fruit and countless members of our profession, helping many faculty affairs and university vegetable wholesaler and a to achieve their potential in this wonderful field. Bill administration, whose office mother who was a home- has always been willing to share his knowledge and sponsors the retreat in conjunc­ maker, Butler grew up sim­ wisdom, consult on problems or issues, and be tion with the Graduate School ply-, had a paper route and available to listen. He has been an example by the and the Office of Research and cut grass and nev-er thought goals he has accomplished and by his willingness to Sponsored Programs. of himself as poor. be coUegial in every way." "Faculty learned not only "It was the Depression," w-hat makes a good grant pro­ he explains. "No one had posal but also how- these agen­ any money, and no one knew- they- urban poor and other community- cies evaluate them," Ullmann didn't have any." groups in need of support. continues. "The retreat de-mysti­ In his junior year of high school, his Even after his tenure ends, Butier fied the grant-writing process family moved to Ohio, where he will continue to serve the University's Steve Ullmann (left) and Tarek Khalil address the and opened up communication worked in his grandfather's bakery goals of promoting diversity and wel- faculty and staff who attended the Retreat on between our faculty and these until World War II erupted. He was 17. coming more students from abroad, Funding Resources. agencies." He joined the Navy-, and the boy who along with doing some fund-raising. Nearly 700 participants have had never left a small corner of the "I've promised to do that," he says. directly from several funding agency- attended the annual Retreat on Fund­ midwest was suddenly sent to faraway- He will also finally get a chance to sit representatives. ing Resources since it was first offered New Guinea, a place he remembers as down and write about his experiences For the first time since the retreat three years ago. "the hellhole of the earth." in the '60s and '70s. the time he calls was established three y-ears ago. high- "Next year we will continue to look After military serv ice—which also the volatile period of higher education. ranking representatives from the for additional ways to provide support included duty in Australia and as a He might not opt to make another National Institutes of Health (NIH). the and resources to our faculty members member of the forces that liberated the cross-country bike trip. But look out National Science Foundation (NSF). so they can be successful grant writ­ Phillippine Islands—he gratefully- for him on the racquetball court. He's Veteran's Affairs System, and the James ers." Ullmann says. returned to the U.S. and graduated just warming up. S. and James L. Knight Foundation — Susan Lichtman from Ohio University on the G.I. Bill. —Teresa Smith

February 1997 New questions about an old treatment for Parkinson's

lmost miraculously, the sur­ have revived pallidotomy for advanced Patients can develop a stroke, bleeding full understanding of the brain and its geon's touch with the electrode cases of Parkinson's that no longer in the brain, or weakness on one side functions—including movement, Abrings results. As the physician respond to drugs. They- also favor the of the body-. Is the risk worth it if we vision, speech, and even psychological w orks steadily to burn away a dime- surgery- when drugs for Parkinson's. make someone better for only three thought process. That way they can sized section of a patient's brain, the whose symptoms are caused by months?" assess both how well the operation patient, conscious during the opera­ a chemical imbalance in the Pallidotomy w orks by has worked and whether the surgery- tion, begins a series of phy sical brain, trigger severe side destroying a part of the has done any damage to areas of the changes. Fingers and thumbs that had effects, such as uncon­ brain known as the brain beyond those affected by- Parkin­ been nearly unmoveable because of trollable writhing globus pallidus. locat­ son's. It's also important to have a Parkinson's disease now- quicken, ed in the basal gan­ complete understanding of how- the opening and closing more easily-. But William glia, where the patient's brain works, rather than Rigidity suddenly vanishes from the Weiner. director of circuitry that con­ merely a superficial "snapshot" of arms and legs, and firmer muscle tone the Parkinson's Dis­ trols movement col­ physical symptoms, because the effects pervades the patient's body-. ease and Movement lects deep in the of Parkinson's fluctuate, from "on" These are the improv ements that Disorder Center, brain. Although the days when patients function relatively typically follow- pallidotomy, a surgical warns against viewing origins of Parkinson's well to more difficult "off" days. technique for treating Parkinson's dis­ pallidotomy- as a mira­ obscure, scien- .After the surgery the neurologists ease that was developed during the cle cure. He and other know that during revisit the patients at three- to six- 1960s, then set aside in favor of drug faculty members, including Parkinson s, the globus pal­ month intervals, each time repeating treatments that proved more effective neurosurgeon Howard Landy, lidus malfunctions, sending the in-depth evaluation of the patient's in most cases. have been collecting detailed informa­ faulty electrochemical signals that neurological dynamics. Weiner predicts In recent years, pallidotomy has tion on their pallidotomy patients in inhibit normal movement and muscle that within two years the department regained popularity for treating Parkin­ the hopes of understanding the opera­ control. When the globus pallidus is will have a much clearer picture of son's, a degenerative disease character­ tion's long-term impact. removed, the inhibition is removed and whether pallidotomy provides long- ized by tremors, slowness of "It's very seductive to see this the brain functions more normally. term relief from Parkinson's. "This is a movement, and muscle rigidity. patient's hand moving freely. It's very Before a patient here undergoes the very complicated question," he insists, Spurred by- recent discoveries about dramatic," Weiner says. "But the real surgery, University of Miami faculty "and answering it is going to take brain structure that provide a scientific question is, how long does this effect conduct a thorough neurological evalu­ some time." rationale for the surgery-, neurologists last? Pallidotomy is not risk free. ation of the patient, in order to get a —Laura Shefler

1997 Summer Awards

1997 Max Orovitz Summer Awards Jean-Pol Madou. Foreign Languages Sectoral Shocks in Generating Business Walter Scott, Psychology-, "Discrete in the Arts and the Humanities and Literature, "The Crisis of the Lyri­ Cycles" Negative Mood: Data .Analy-sis and Robin Bacbin. History, "Planning, Pol­ cal Subject in European Poetry 1918- Development of a Mood Scale" itics, Public Spheres: Chicago in the 1930" Dhruy Grewal, Marketing, "Compara­ Progressive Era" tive Advertising: Does it Pay to Name Tie Su. Finance, "An Empirical Investi­ David Kling, Religious Studies, "Nur­ Your Competitor?" gation of the Hull-White Option Pric­ Rebecca Biron. Foreign Languages and turing Intellect: Ministerial Apprentice­ ing Model" Literature, "Haunting Romances: Elena ship and American Culture 1750-1825" Brett Katzman. Economics, "Optimal Garro and Mexican Literary Culture" Reserve Prices in Military Surplus Auc­ Alexander Taber, Economics, "The Sandra Pouchet-Paquet, English, tions" Effects of Altruism and Habit Persis­ Leslie Bow, English, "Managing Eth­ "Caribbean Autobiography and the tence on Saving and Expenditures on nicity: Literary Representations of .Asian Intercultural Identity Qu< Robert Levine, History, "Collaborative the Consumption and Human Capital and American Diversity" Reevaluation of Brazil's Vargas Regime" of Children" Michael Rothberg. English, 'After the Amanda Brooks. Foreign Languages Final Solution: History, Experience, Karen Lombard. Economics, "The Linda Taylor, anthropology, "Aging, and Literature, "Native Language Pro­ and Holocaust Representation" Narrowing of the Gender Gap in Self- Reproduction, and Social Behavior in cessing in Foreign Language Writing" Employment" Lemurs" Stephen Sapp. Religious Studies, Sanjeev Chatterjee, Broadcasting, "Aging: A Case Study in Theodicy" David Mauer, Finance, "On the Opti­ 1997 Summer Awards in Natural "Children of RAM—A Video About mal Structure of Financial Incentives Sciences and Engineering Migration and Identity" Joyce Schuld. Religious Studies, "Cul­ for Enterprise Zones and Other Loca- Timothy Chan, Mathematics and tural Practices, Politics, and Power: tional Development Programs" Computer Science, "Algorithmic Tech­ Frederick D'Aguiar. English, "Buffalo The Ethics of Suspicion in Augustine niques for Optimization Problem in Soldiers: Blacks and the American and Foucault" Anuj Mehrotra. Management Science, Computational Geometry" Frontier" "Optimal Clustering of Maintenance Jeffrey Shoulson. English. "Milton Spares" Philip Keating, Geography, "The Bio­ Soledad de Mateo. Foreign Languages and the Rabbis: Poetry as Theodicy, geography and Disturbance Ecology of and Literature, "Nationalism and Mysti­ Interpretation as Literature" Linda Neider, Management, "Develop­ the Northern Ecuadorian Andes, cism in Post-War Spain: The Flamen- ment of a Predictive and Prescriptive Phase II" quist Songs" Charles Siewert. Philosophy-, "Plato's Model of Workplace Violence" Division of the Soul in Republic IV" Stephen Memory, Mechanical Engi­ Lise Drost. a\rt and .Art History. "Doc­ Arlette Perry. Exercise and Sport Sci­ neering. "Zero Emission Hydrogen- umentation of Multiple Color Prints" Maria Stampino. Foreign Languages ences. "The Effects of an Applied Cur­ Fueled IC Engines" and Literature. "Aminta: Pastoral and riculum in Biophysiology on David Glimp. English. "The Govern­ Performance" Physiological Characteristics, Knowl­ Preest. Biology. "Morphologi­ ment of Generations: The Literary- For­ edge-Base, and Self-Esteem in High cal and Phenological Plasticity in mation of Populations in Sidney. John Van Der Slice. Music Theory School Students" Spadefoot Toads" Shakespeare, and Milton" and Composition. "A Composition for Zeta Violin and Percussion Ensemble" Rios. Educational and Psycho­ K. C Russell. Chemistry. "Hydrogen David Graf. History-. "Literacy in the logical Studies. "The Impact of Racial Bond Controlled Polymerization" Desert: North Arabian Epigraphical 1997James W. McLamore Identity and Ethnic Identity on the Summer Awards in Business Process of Acculturation in Caribbean Stewart Schultz. Biology. "Distribution and the Social Sciences Hispanics" Ecology of the Cascade Head Catchfly" Philosophy. "Defending Thomas Boswell. Geography. "The Science—Within Reason" Delimitation of Hispanic Neighbor­ Thomas Robinson. Accounting, "Cor­ Ali Shahin. Mechanical Engineering. hoods in Metropolitan Miami" porate Social Performance and Ana­ "Robust Tip Trajectory Control of High- Denis Hector. -Architecture. "Tradition and lysts" Recommendations" Speed Flexible Link Robots" Invention: The Work of August Perret" Kevin Carey. Economics. "The Role of I P CLOSE

Reuters Financial Service (January Rosenstiel School anthropologist explores 14) "We're very excited about what is happening here, but it is in the very- planetary partnerships early stages. This is still very experi­ mental." —Walter G. Bradley, professor sk Sarah Keene Meltzoff to of neurology, on new treatment for ALS, or describe her dissertation topic Lou Gehrig's disease. A and in mid-sentence she bounds up from her chair and runs out U.S. Neu-su-ire (January 13) "Our goal of the room. "I'll show- you!" she yells is simple...to help millions of children over her shoulder. She returns momen­ lead more normal lives by preventing tarily, wearing a rattan replica of a U.S. this disease." —Jay S. Skyler. professor general's hat that Pacific islanders had of medicine and pediatrics, on the pre­ seen during the Guadalcanal battle in vention of diabetes. World War II. Meltzoff. associate professor and Tbe Neu- York Times < December 16) chair oi the marine affairs and policy "One of the big negatives here is that division at the Rosenstiel School of should Miami become part of Dade Marine and Atmospheric Science, County-, you'll see a tremendous inten- relates the story in her kitchen, which n of the movement to try- to might seem rather informal. But Melt­ secede from Dade." —Peter Muller pro­ zoff s kitchen is a museum of sorts, fessor of geography, on the trend where where baskets of oranges and bananas Miami's affluent areas want to secede sit amidst wooden stick like figures from Dade County. adorned with shells, plumes, and bark. The hat she wears was made by- vil­ Tbe Orlando Sentinel (January 5) lagers shortly after the war, symboliz­ "More often than not, good musicians ing a fascinating desire: that their don't find a way to capitalize on their American military "brothers" return in Sarah Keene Meltzoff discusses the local shellfish harvest with Luis Millaneri Torres abilities because they- don't think in a submarines and carry them to heav­ at the Mapuchi Indian fishing cooperative on Pichicolo Costa in the south of Chile. business way. The few who do, I en—New York City. think, are unique.' —James A. Progris, Such was the grist of Meltzoff s 1973 It was here that Meltzoff crystallized as part of the environment," she says. professor of music media and industry, on anthropological journey—her first—in an interest that she would continue "You could study the biology of coral a couple who turned their music into a the Solomon Islands near New Guinea. into the present: the relationship reefs forever. That won't help you thriving enterprise. She chose the site after a linguist from between industrialization and third- understand why people are polluting." the Universiry of Hawaii told her of world societies. Today she works with two other Reuters (December 18) "It will have a the area's unique tribal art, unspoiled But why is Meltzoff. an anthropolo­ Rosenstiel professors on a NOAA very sobering effect on producers, reefs, and intact culture. "He gave me gist, at the Rosenstiel School? Her per­ (National Oceanographic and Atmos­ who have always thought that if they a bottle of malaria pills and off I went. spective focuses on humans as part of pheric Association) project understand­ do something wrong, their companies I showed up w-ith a giant steamer the marine ecosystem. "To develop and ing how Chilean fishermen adapt to would have to pay the damages. This trunk full of a one year supply of conserve the environment, one must environmental changes brought about is going to shake the industry." everything and gifts." understand the interaction of humans by the ocean current El Nino off the —Joseph Angotti, Communications Stud­ South American coast. ies Chair, on the $10 million judgment As an anthropologist at the marine against ABC in favor of BankAtlantic. school, she observes the human dimensions of global changes. That Sun-Sentinel (January 26) "I w-as giv­ means examining how fishermen ing 100 to 150 concerts a year when I Legislators, might use mathematical models pre­ started, so it became like brushing community dicting the next El Niho, part of a your teeth. But as I got more expen­ National Science Foundation grant. sive, I wasn't playing little towns any­ leaders "Communities are a series of rela­ more. Every place I played was an tionships based on class, ethnicity, important ciry—like performing the tour Cuban gender, and generation," she says. Schumann concerto for the first time at Collection "Development projects shift the power Carnegie Hall. So the pressure was structure within the community." greater each time." —Ivan Davis, pro­ U.S. Representatives lleana The anthropologist's field work has fessor of keyboard, on the stress upon Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln produced more than research articles. him during his beginning years. Diaz-Balart, and Leslie She has coined a term for her own Pantin, Jr., president of the indigenous art form—"cargo art"— Los Angeles Times (January 22) Orange Bowl Committee and w-hich blends objects from the industri­ "What the entire pattern says to me is president of The Pantin al world, such as machine parts and these people knew exactly what they- Partnership, a Miami-based tools, with objects from her field sites, were doing and they- were trying to be public relations agency, were such as bridewell cowrie shells and very clever." —Frances R. Hill, associ­ among those who recently bones. ate professor of law, on House Speaker toured the Cuban Collection One piece, called "Heading for Sim­ Newt Gingrich's alleged misuse of charita­ at the Otto G. Richter ply .Anywhere." combines a fish skull ble funds. Library. The regional director from the Western Solomon Islands with of U.S. Senator Connie Greek clay marbles, a New Guinea Sun-Sentinel (January 26) "We realize Mack's office also has snail shell, and a worn wooden pulley it's hard, but we are talking about toured the collection. found in California. dying. I'm not sure how easy I want it Pictured are Leslie Pantin, Jr. (center); Frank Rodgers, director of libraries; and A significance of her art. she sug­ to be or how easy it's supposed to Esperanza B. de Varona, curator, Cuban Archives. gests, can be found in a quote by- be." —Kenneth W. Goodman, assistant This was my first time touring the collection," says Pantin. "It was much better anthropologist Karen Brown that professor of bioethics and philosophy, on than anything I had imagined. I was impressed with the collection's many builds on the term "web of signifi­ the debate over euthanasia. historical documents, from Cuba's War of Independence in the 1890s, to Cuba cance." developed by the noted cultur­ as a republic, to Castro's Cuba, and of course, to the Cuban-American al anthropologist. Clifford Geertz: Tbe New York Times (February- 23) experience in South Florida. We're lucky to have such a rich repository of Cuban "Humans are suspended in webs of "He's just not Deng. He does not com­ documents and history so it's not lost for future generations of Cuban-Americans significance they themselves have mand the same kind of respect and he and just as important, for the people of Cuba in a soon-to-be free Cuba." created." is not a hero of the revolution." —June Internationally recognized as the foremost source of infomiation on Cuba, the For Meltzoff. that web embraces Teufel Dreyer. expert on Chinese military Cuban Collection presently has more than 50,000 books (both rare and much of the world. affairs, on China rulers' control of the contemporary) and thousands of newspapers, magazines, newsletters, —Jeanne DeQuine army. manuscripts, maps, audiovisual materials, and personal papers. It is trie largest collection of its kind outside of Cuba.

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classes are held in the department's Continuing Legal Education mation, contact Hal Braxton at 670- ACADEMIA studio facilities. For a complete listing For more information, please call the 0366 or Nick Chickillo at 274-0995. of classes, call 284-2542. Center for Continuing Legal Education, April 17 1997 Distinguished Faculty- Scientific Seminars 284-4762. Scholar Award Ceremony and Lecture. Department of Microbiology and Architecture April 24 & 25 Federal Income Tax Ramon Lemos. Department of Philoso­ Immunology L997 Seminar Series For more information on School of Institute on Closely- Held and Family- phy . w ill be honored at this award cer­ The following seminars take place architecture events, call Lamar Business. Sonesta Beach Resort. Key emony and lecture at 4 p.m. in the Mondays at noon in RMSB 3109. For Noriega, 284-5002. Moot Court. Law School. The faculty is more information, please call 243-6655- April 2 Shaping the City Opening May 2-4 7th National Symposium on invited. CaU 284-3721 for more April 7 Gtinter Kraus. Gene Therapy-. Reception, at the Miami Herald Build­ Mental Health and the Law". Hyatt information. April 14 Cesar Calderon. The role of ing. One Herald Plaza. Event features Regency- Pier 66. Fort Lauderdale. phosphatidyl serine in the induction of Roger Lewis, professor. University of Maryland and columnist, Washington Real Property Development April 21 AACR Post. April 25 "Non-Traditional Solutions to ARTS April 28 Robert Levy-. Unhappy bone April 2-30 Shaping the City Exhibition. School Overcrowding: Where are We marrow'—problems of rejection. Miami Herald Building, One Herald and Where are We Heading?" The half- Museums and Galleries May 5 Yuko Ota, Conservation of the Plaza. day seminar, chaired by Frank Schnid- Lowe Art Museum linkage groups in shark MHC genes. April 24 aAnnual Book and Print Fair, man, director of the Real Property- 1301 Stanford Drive, 284-3603 Omni Colonnade Hotel, sponsored by- Development Program, will take place April lO-May 25 Mexican Masks of The following seminars take place Fri­ the School of architecture Alumni at 8 a.m. at FAU's Commercial Blvd. the 20th Century: A Liv ing Tradition. days at noon in RMSB 3109. For more association. campus, just west of 1-95. Offered in The exhibit introduces the viewer to information, please call 243-6655. the masking traditions used in Mexico. April 18 Vishva Dixit, University of A variety of masks are included to rep­ Michigan Medical School, Department resent the diversity- of visual forms pre­ of Pathology. sent in this living and ever changing May 2 Pamela Bjorkman, Howard folk art tradition. Organized by the Hughes Medical Institute, Div-ision of Danforth Museum of Art. Biology. California Institute of Technology-. Theater Jerry Herman Ring Theatre Department of Biology Seminar 1380 Miller Drive, 284-3355 Series April 16-26 Into The Woods, by The following seminars take place on Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Mondays at 4 p.m., Cox Science Build­ A bewitching crew of classic fairy tale ing, Room 213. characters romp through a magical April 7 Pedro Quintana-aAscencio, kingdom in this hilarious twist on tra­ .Archbold Biological Station, "Popula­ ditional fairy tales. tion viability for a plant species in patchy habitats with sporadic Music disturbance." For complete listings, please call the April 14 Christopher Kernan, Fairchild Musikall 24-hour concert information Tropical Garden, "Plant conservation line at 284-6477. All events take place biology in Dade County." at Maurice Gusman Concert Hall, April 21 Stuart Pimm, University of unless otherwise indicated. Tennessee, UM Math-Biology 1997 lec­ Mask from the Dance of the Devils Mexican Masks of the 20th Century: A Living turer, "The future of biodiversity." Tradition at the Lowe Museum. April 28 Kestutis aArbaciauskas, Insti­ tute of Ecology of Vilnius, Lithuania, Continuing Education conjunction with the Florida Institute SPORTS "Predation in plankton: mechanisms Ongoing UM Test Preparation Courses: of Government, the program fee is and effects." PSAT and SAT (Dade and Broward $45. For more information, contact For tickets, call 28-i-22o3 C County locations), GRE, LSAT, GMAT, Becky Dowda, 284-1754. 1-800-GO-CANES Department of Civil, Architectural, MCAT, and CLAST UM employees and and Environmental Engineering their dependents are entitled to a dis­ Staff Development and Training Seminar Series count. For more information or to reg­ Pre-registration is required for all ses­ All games take place at Mark Light a\ll seminars take place in the ister, call 284-2727 or fax 284-6279. sions. For the Coral Gables campus, Stadium, Coral Gables Campus. McArthur Engineering Building, A/V sessions are held at 139 Max Orovitz, Room MCA 202, beginning at 5 p.m. Continuing Medical Education 1507 Levante Ave. For the medical April 4 Georgia Tech, 7 p.m. All seminars are free and open to the April 12 Refractive Surgery Trade campus, sessions are held at 155 April 5 Georgia Tech. 7 p.m. public, howev-er, seating is limited. For Secrets, sponsored by the Bascom Dominion Parking, 1051 N.W. 14th St. April 6 Georgia Tech, 1:30 p.m. more information, call 284-3611. Palmer Eye Institute, Department of For the Rosenstiel School, sessions are April 9 St. Thomas, 7 p.m. April 3 "Research and Modeling Ophthalmology, Retter Auditorium, 900 held in the Library- Map and Chart April 18 Duke, 7 p.m. Approaches to Protecting and Enhanc­ N.W. l^th Street. For more informa­ Room, Science/Administration Build­ April 19 Duke, 7 p.m. ing the Everglades and Florida Bay," tion, call Rosa Bondar, 326-6110. ing, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway. April 20 Duke, 1:30 p.m. lecture by Thomas D. Fontaine, direc­ April 14-17 Diabetes Management: (G=Coral Gables campus. M=Medical April 23 Florida Atlantic, 7 p.m. tor, Everglades Systems Research, Understanding Modern Therapy. Dia­ campus. R=Rosenstiel School) April 25 Coastal Carolina, 7 p.m. South Florida Water Management betes Research Institute. Contact For more information, please call Coral April 26 Coastal Carolina, 7 p.m. District Norma J. Peck. 243-6505 Gables/Rosenstiel School, 284-5110; April 27 Coastal Carolina, 1:30 p.m. April IO "Historical Records of Mer­ April 19-20 The Art & Science of Medical Campus, 243-3090. April 30 Florida Atlantic. 7 p.m. cury and Lead Contamination in Ever- Acupunture, Sieron Building. Contact April 15 Effective Telephone Tech­ May 2 Florida State, 7 p.m. glades Sediments." lecture by John H. Wolfgang Meub, 243-4751. niques, 2-3 p.m. (R) May 3 Florida State. 7 p.m. Trefry, Division of Marine and Environ­ April 21-26 Acute Cardiac Care for the May 4 Florida State, 1:30 p.m. mental Systems. Florida Institute of Practicing Physician, Jackson Memorial Technology Hospital. Contact Michelle Jules- April 17 "West Wellfield Aquifer Stor­ Enriquez. 243-3515. SPECIAL age Recovery," lecture by Jorge S. April 25-27 Otitis Media and Tympa- Rodriguez, deputy- director. Miami- nomastoidectomy: Pearls and Pitfalls. Dade Water & Sewer Authority UM Rosenstiel Room 3155A. Contact EVENTS "Calendar" lists University of Esther Lopez, 243-6812. Miami events geared toward April 28 Physician Geriatric Training. Art April IO 29th aAnnual Hall of Fame faculty and staff members. Columbia Faw-cett Memorial. Contact The Department of a\rt and Art History Banquet. Sev en new members will be Mail relevant submissions six Robynn Steen. 243-6270. offers a wide variety of art classes as inducted into the UM Sports Hall of weeks prior to publication to May 2-4 Tympanoplasty and Ossicular part of its "Art After Dark" Spring Fame, 6:15 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Calendar Editor, Veritas, Reconstruction. L'M Rosenstiel Room series. The classes are open to the Hotel. 1601 Biscayne Blvd. Tickets are 1540 Corniche Avenue, Coral 3155A. Contact Esther Lopez. 243-6812. community: UM faculty and staff S50 per person or S450 for a table of Gables, Locator Code 4040. receive a 40 percent discount. aMl ten. Seating is limited. For more infor­ BRIEFLY \OTED NEWSNOTES been selected president-elect of the t a guide to using the newest technology- in Recent work by the design staff of the can College of Medical Genetics. marketing architectural services. The book Department of Publications was featured also contains work by many School of in an exhibition sponsored by the South .Architecture students. David Lieberman. senior vice president in Florida chapter of the aymerican Institute of the Division of Business and Finance, Graphic .Arts. Featured publications includ­ tor of neurosurgical intensive care for the Harriet J. Lefley. professor of psychiatry recendy was interviewed on ""South Florida ed Miami magazine, the 1996 President s Department of Neurological Surgery, has and behavioral sciences, has published a Business Focus" on WLRN. Larry- Birger's Report, the 1996 Financial Report, a series been elected chairman of the Board of chapter on -Advocacy-. Self-Help and Con­ South Florida Business Journal radio pro­ produced for the Ring Theatre, and a series Directors of the International Council of sumer-Operated Services." in a new two- gram. The interview- was based on the Uni­ produced for the President's Council. The Motorspon Sciences. Olvey also is involved volume textbook. Psychiatry. versity's 1996 financial report and other publications were designed by- David with The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis business subjects. Johnson, director of creative services, and research in the field of safety in high Bruce J. Winick. professor in the School and graphic designers ayna Gomez-Hung velocity sports. of Law-, had three books published: Thera­ The Division of Cardiology hosted the Fifth and Barbara Scheer. peutic Jurisprudence Applied: Essays on Annual Miriam Lemberg Visiting Professor­ Helaine C. Ahem has joined the Division Mental Health Law. Tbe Right to Refuse ship in Cardiovascular Disease for Joseph The Employee .Assistance Program offers of University Advancement as assistant vice Mental Health Treatment, and a book that K. Perloff. Perloff is a Streisand American free guidance and counseling to all Univer­ president for medical development and he co-authored. Law in a Therapeutic Key: Heart Association Professor of Medicine sity employees and their dependents. .Any alumni relations. She was previously with Developments in Therapeutic Jurisprudence. and Pediatrics, and director of the UCLA consultation is strictly confidential. They the University of Maryland at Baltimore, He also was a guest editor of a symposium Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center. can be reached at 284-6604, or on the where she w-as assistant vice president for issue of Psychology Public Policy & Law UCLA School of Medicine. He spent the medical campus at 243-7676. development. (Volume 2. Number 1). day in the Division of Cardiology, partici­ pating in morning report and making Cara Sodos has been appointed major gifts Kathy L. Cerminara. a visiting a rounds in the Coronary Care Unit at Jack­ HONORS officer of Medical Foundation Relations. professor of law, published an article on son Memorial Hospital and the Veterans Bob Hosmon, associate dean of the She was previously employ-ed at the Uni­ the Internet, entitled "In the U.S. Supreme Administration Hospital. The day ended School of Communication, reports that versity of Chicago as a senior development Court: Can States Prosecute Physicians for with the Department of Medicine's Medical Stacey Marks-Brohner. a 1984 School of officer. .Assisting Their Competent. Terminally 111 Grand Rounds and with Perloffs presenta­ Communication graduate, has been recog­ Patients in Committing Suicide?" in West's tion, "The Complex Determinants of Ven­ nized in the Hollywood Reporter as one of The Diabetes Research Institute at the Uni­ Legal News. tricular Function in Congenital Heart Hollywood's "best and brightest" up and versity's School of Medicine recently ann- Disease—Antidote to a Stereotype." comers. This year she was named execu­ nounced the appointments of Rodolfo Patrick A. McCarthy, professor of English, tive vice president of marketing at Fox Alejandro. Norma S. Kenyon, and Luca published "In Search of Lost Time: Sadik Kakac, professor of mechanical Broadcasting. Inverardi as associate directors of the Chronology and Narration in The Good Sol­ engineering, was invited to present a short Institute's Cell Transplantation Center. Each dier." in English Literature in Transition course on heat exchanger design at Kaset- Tom Salzman. assistant professor of the­ will assume separate responsibilities for the 1880-1920. sart University, Bangkok, Thailand. He also ater arts, was nominated for a Carbonell Center's clinical, pre-clinical, and basic was invited to lecture on engineering edu­ Award for Best Lighting Design for both research activities. Alejandro will direct and Sharon Ladner. associate professor at the cation at Kebangsaan University, in "Terra Nova" and "Sylvia" at the Caldwell supervise the clinical research activities, Richter Library, is author and editor of an Malaysia. Theater in Boca Raton. Kenyon will supervise and coordinate a Internet column entided "On the Net," in broad range of pre-clinical research studies, Information Outlook, the monthly maga­ Esperanza de Varona. professor, archives and Inverardi will direct the center's basic zine of the Special Libraries ayssociation. SUBMISSIONS and special collections, Otto G. Richter research ; Faculty and staff information should Library, was awarded the White Rose Dis­ be sent to "Briefly Noted," Veritas. tinction of Honor by the Jose Marti Patron­ LOOK WHO'S TALKING 1540 Corniche Avenue, Coral Gables age in Los aVngeles. She was honored for OBITUARIES Roberto .Angioli. gynecological-oncology campus, 4040, or by fax at 284-2532. her stewardship of the Cuban Collection Kitty Bob Hyatt, who worked in the fellow, recently returned from Greece and for hosting numerous lectures, exhibits Admission Office, died at the age of 73- where he moderated the clinical oncology and seminars throughout the year. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, she arrived session of the "International Conference on .: in 1926, and graduated from the Experimental and Clinical Oncology." aVngi- Brian A. Dursum, director of the Lowe ayn University of Miami and also from the oli also presented the paper "Prevention of Museum, has been selected as one of the Trapphagen School of Design in New York. Bowel Prolapse and GI Fistula After Pelvic Ronald McDonald House's "12 Good Men She helped coach the University's cheer- Exenteration." He received the award for for 1997." leading team, then left the University only best paper during the meeting. to return in 1987 to work in the Admission "Walter F. Lambert, pediatrician and direc­ Office. Michael Sacks, assistant professor in the tor of the Child Protective Team at Univer­ Department of Biomedical Engineering, was an invited visiting faculty member at VERITAS sity of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, received a Commissioner's Award. The IN PRINT the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. P.O. Box 248105 aw ard is given to one individual from each David F. Graf, professor of history, pub­ He presented a talk, entided "On the Bio­ Coral Gables, Florida 33124 state and U.S. Territory in recognition for lished an article in cooperation with mechanics of Chemically-Treated Biopros­ Telephone: 305-284-5600 his or her contribution toward the preven­ Edward L. Dreyer, also a professor of thetic Heart Valve Tissues." Fax: 305-284-2532 tion and treatment of child abuse and history. The article. "The Roman East from neglect. the Chinese Perspective,' appears in Bruce J. Winick. professor at the Law- Published monthly by the Office Palmyra and the Silk Road, a special vol­ School, discussed his new book. Law in a of University Communication in the ume of Les Annates Archeologiques Arabes Therapeutic Key: Developments in Thera­ Division of University Advancement, APPOINTMENTS Syriennes. peutic Jurisprudence, at a seminar on thera­ Copyright ©1997, University of Ana Rosa Nunez, professor emeritus, dis­ peutic jurisprudence at the New York Law- Miami. tinguished scholar, and poet, has been Guilherme Cantuaria, chief resident in School. In addition. Winick spoke on the appointed a member of the "Academia obstetrics-gynecology, has published a topic of "Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Clin­ Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola." paper entitled "Gestational Trophoblastic ical Practice" at the annual meeting of the Disease in a 51-Year-Old Woman" in aymerican Academy of Psychiatry and the Jeffrey L. Newton, formerly the Universi­ Oncology Reports. The article was co- Law. He also spoke on the same subject at ty's executive director for corporate and authored by Robert Angioli. gynecologi­ a conference sponsored by the Foundation foundation relations, has been named exec­ cal-oncology fellow: Marisa Messore. for Mental Health of Puerto Rico. Both con­ utive director for development. In his new- chief resident in obstetrics-gynecology: ferences took place in San Juan. role. New-ton has the additional responsibil­ Ricardo Estape, gynecological-oncology ity of overseeing major gift programs and fellow; and Manuel A. Penalver. professor James Potter, professor and chairman of and chief of gynecology. the Etepartment of Molecular and Cellular planned giving, as well as corporate and Executive Director of University foundation relations. Pharmacology-, spoke on ""Managing Transi­ Lafferty. a third-year resident in tions in a Basic Science Department" at the Communication Jerry Lewis Loreto Jackson-Ip. director of wellness for obstetrics-gynecology. has published a ayssociation of American Medical Colleges the Department of Wellness and Recre­ paper entitled "Management of Sexual Dys­ meeting in San Francisco. Assistant Vice President ation, has received her doctorate in exer­ function in Perimenopausal Women" in the for University Relations cise science. Jackson-Ip also has been Journal of Clinical Practice in Sexuality. David F. Graf, professor of history-, read a Paula J. Musto The article was co-authored by Roberto paper on ~Foederati on the Northern and appointed adjunct assistant professor in the Vice President Department of Medicine. AnjriolL gynecological-oncology- fellow, Eastern Frontier: A Comparative aNnalysis." and Salih Yasin. associate professor in The paper was read at the Third Interna­ for University Advancement Roy J. Nirschel, Jr. Murray Deutscher. professor and chair­ clinical obstetrics-gynecology-. tional Symposium on the Roman Frontier at man of the Department of Biochemistry the Lower Danube, sponsored by the Insti­ Contributors and Molecular Biology, has been elected Howard PospeseL professor of philoso­ tute for Operative Strategic Studies and -Mil­ Leslie Sternlieb, Fariss Samarrai, fellow- of the American Association for the phy, is the co-author of a new book, enti­ itary History- in Bucharest. Romania. Graf Catherine Pacheco, Doug of Science. ded Premises and Conclusions: Symbolic also participated in the subsequent official Phillips, Michelle Garber, Chris Logic for Legal Analysis. tour of archeological sites in the Dobradja Dudley, Ana M. Rosado. Rebecca and Black Sea regions. During the special Morris Riordan, Cherie Rogers, R. Rodney HowelL professor and chair­ faculty tour of Israel arranged by the Uni- man of the Department of Pediatrics, has Curtis B. Charles, lecturer in rhe School Debra Stewart, Mitra Zehtab of Architecture, has WTitten a book. Multi­ v ersity s Judaic Studies Program. Graf read media Marketing for Design Firms, w hich is a paper. "Roads and Exchange with Arabia.

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