December 2003 / January 2004 Vol. 17 / Vol. 18 notes CLASThe College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Summing Up the Genome: Statistical Genetics Collaboration Examines Wealth of New Data page 4 In this Issue: Florida Blue Key Honors CLAS Faculty...... 3 Summing up the Genome...... 4 The Dean’s Around the College...... 6

Grants...... 8 Musings

Bookbeat...... 10 Focusing on the Basics

CLASSC Wishes UF As we close out the calendar year and prepare for new university A Happy 150th Birthday...... 12 leadership, it is a good time to reflect on what is most important for the college and our programs to accomplish in the future. Above all, quality must be our first consideration. We are judged on our standards of teaching, writings and scholarly contribu- tions, so we must focus on selected areas where we can build a mark of distinction that would set UF apart as a recognized leader. We cannot do this in all disciplines, and must be careful to select areas of promise and fields of study relevant to the modern needs of the nation and the state. E-mail [email protected] with your news and As the state seeks to develop new high-tech industrial growth events information for publication in CLAS- in such areas as biotechnology, it cannot succeed without a truly notes. The deadline for submissions is the 15th of the month prior to the month you would high-quality university environment to provide the leadership, like your information published. Don’t wait! the new workforce and the public awareness that is required. The Send us your news and events today! long-term future of the state depends on how successful we are in building a first-class research university enterprise in the next few years. The new biotechnologies developed in the genetic sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences including genomics and bioinformatics, will play a major role in News and Publications the future of UF and the new industries in the state. The keys to 2008 Turlington Hall unlocking the methods for understanding inheritable diseases, the PO Box 117300 aging process, and how to develop new agriculture crops will be Gainesville FL 32611-7300 [email protected] generated by the new generation of biochemists, mathematicians, http://clasnews.clas.ufl.edu cell biologists, geneticists, statisticians and biomedical engineers who are now focusing on research at the most fundamental levels. CLASnotes is published by the College of Liberal As advances are made in genomics, and we learn how to handle Arts and Sciences to inform faculty, staff and stu- dents of current research and events. and interpret the complex data, major applications important to health and the quality of life are sure to follow. Dean: Neil Sullivan Basic science is not the only important component for suc- Editor: Allyson A. Beutke Contributing Editor: Buffy Lockette cess. The ethical issues of handling personal records and research Design & Photography: Jane Dominguez studies will require the involvement of ethicists and social scien- Interns: Brenda Lee tists to a degree previously not encountered. They will be respon- Kimberly A. Lopez Garry Nonog sible for developing new paradigms to protect the rights of the individual in this brave new world. It is the great universities that Additional Photography: provide the atmosphere and the liberty for this research and these Cover Illustration: Garry Nonog, Jane Domin- guez; DNA model courtesy Doug Lundberg; discussions, and UF must be in a leader in these new areas. data courtesy Connie Mulligan Courtesy Department of Astronomy: p. 6 (Kandrup) Neil Sullivan [email protected]

On the Cover: UF geneticists and statisticians are examining the relationships between DNA and gene functions by using complex data analysis methods, an area known as statistical genetics. Read the full story on page 4. page  CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 Florida Blue Key Honors CLAS Faculty During the 2003 Homecoming showcased in convertibles during because it comes from students, festivities, three CLAS professors the Homecoming Parade. faculty and administrators. “The were honored for their outstand- Dolbier received his under- award validates my strong belief ing service and dedication to UF. graduate degree from Stetson that if you strive for excellence in Chemistry Professor William Dol- University and a PhD from Cor- all that you do, and in the process bier, Psychology Professor Carolyn nell University. In 1966, he joined remember to reach out and touch Tucker, and Political Science and the Department of Chemistry somebody’s heart and somebody’s Jewish Studies Professor Kenneth and has since served in numerous hand each day, you will be con- Wald were three of the four win- capacities, including department tinually blessed.” ners chosen from across campus chair. He has been recognized for Since coming to UF in 1983, to receive a 2003 Distinguished his work in fluorine chemistry Wald has served as chair, 1989– Faculty Award from Florida Blue and his dedication to teaching, 1994, and graduate coordinator, Key (FBK). receiving the Professorial Excel- 1987–1989, of the Department Dolbier Each year, a commit- lence Program Award and Teacher of Political Science. In July 1999, tee selects honorees based on of the Year from his department. he became the director of the nominations endorsed by college “As someone who has been Center for Jewish Studies. He also deans. The committee is generally on the UF faculty for 36 years, I has served as a Fulbright profes- composed of students, faculty, consider this an honor to be par- sor at the Hebrew University of an administrator and the current ticularly recognized for my teach- Jerusalem and as a visiting profes- FBK advisor. Jonathan Kaskel, the ing accomplishments,” Dolbier sor in Scotland and Israel. Wald 2003 committee chairman, says says. “Although I certainly enjoy received his bachelor’s degree the award highlights the accom- doing research, I have always from the University of Nebraska plishments of faculty members loved teaching.” and earned his graduate degrees who have reached out to the com- Tucker has taught at UF at Washington University in St. munity, beyond their disciplines. since receiving her PhD from the Louis. His research focuses on the “Florida Blue Key seeks to recog- State University of at intersection of religion and poli- nize faculty who have contributed Stony Brook in 1976 and, as a tics. not only to their academic field, clinical psychologist, specializes in “The rewards of this pro- Tucker but also to the university commu- research on contributors to cultur- fession are rarely direct and nity. Recognizing and rewarding ally sensitive healthcare and the immediate, so when students and faculty for their vital role on cam- predictors of mental and physical colleagues take the time to honor pus is one of Florida Blue Key’s health among children in minori- you, it’s especially nice,” Wald stated goals, and this award is one ty and low-income families. She is says. “I hope I received the award way of demonstrating the respect a UF Distinguished Alumni Pro- because my career at UF has we have for our professors.” fessor and has received numerous emphasized teaching, scholarship The winners were recognized other honors, including a 2003 and service. Then again, maybe at the annual FBK banquet, Doctoral Dissertation/Mentoring they just thought I would look which this year featured a keynote Award. A veteran of academic cool in a convertible during the address by Attorney General John awards, Tucker says the FBK Homecoming Parade.” Ashcroft. Honorees also were award is a “treasured blessing” —Kimberly A. Lopez

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CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 page  Summing Up the Genome: Statistical Genetics Collaboration Examines Wealth of New Data

“If you do the experiment right the first time, you don’t need to use statistics” is an old adage among scientists that might make statisticians cringe. But while some scientists still choose to analyze their own data, many have realized they need a more sophisticated statisti- cal approach to obtain better results. “Researchers might be looking to associate a trait, such as height, weight or growth, with a certain gene, but many geneticists cannot get by any- more by doing simple statistical t-tests,” says George Casella, chair of UF’s statistics depart- ment. “Now, we’re dealing with much more complicated data sets, so a more complex analy- sis must be done, and this is where statistical genetics plays a role.” At UF, a group of more lesson might help explain why and well-founded scientific Anthropologist Connie Mul- than 40 faculty members and this field has become even more inference. ligan and statistician Rongling students from across campus important during the last 20 Statistical genetics has even Wu are collaborating on a genetics study using advanced who work as geneticists and years. Genetics has its origins more relevance today, since the statistical analysis software. statisticians have formed the with Gregor Mendel (1822– Human Genome Project was Statistical Genetics Group. “A 1864) who derived basic laws completed in 2003. The project, few years ago, we started having of heredity such as: hereditary which began in 1990, is a scien- a weekly seminar series where factors do not combine but are tific effort to map and sequence we would come together and passed intact; each member of the three billion chemical pairs talk about what we do and how the parental generation trans- that make up human DNA and we could assist each other,” mits only half of its hereditary identify the roughly 100,000 Casella says. “We’ve brought factors to each offspring (with genes that comprise a person’s together folks from CLAS, IFAS certain factors “dominant” over genetic code. The challenge cur- and medicine, and sometimes others); and different offspring rently facing scientists is finding we would have a scientist give of the same parents receive dif- a way to organize and catalog a basic lecture about DNA ferent sets of hereditary factors. this vast amount of information and RNA, and then we would Mendel’s work became the into a usable form. They are also review some basic statistical foundation for modern genetics. trying to understand the genetic analysis techniques. Now, some Statistical genetics has its variation within and among of us have started collaborating origins in the work of R.A. Fish- individuals, populations and on various projects, and we’re er, S. Wright, and J.B.S. Hal- species. Both of these goals are working with researchers at dane in the 1920s and 1930s. intrinsically statistical and fall other universities in the US and They realized that observable within the realm of statistical internationally.” genetic variation could be inter- genetics. For the non-geneticist or preted using probabilistic mod- “The completion of the non-statistician, a brief history eling, rigorous statistical analysis Human Genome Project has

page  CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 resulted in a wealth of new data more or less than the total effect technique.” organism, Wayne’s research on that must be carefully analyzed would be if you just added those Another faculty member timing of reproduction could in order to reap the promised two effects independently.” Mul- who has utilized the Statisti- have implications for other benefits of the project,” says ligan says a good example of this cal Genetic Group’s consulting organisms, including people. Connie Mulligan, an assistant type of effect is evident in the service is Assistant Professor of In addition to collaborating professor of anthropology and recent research findings related Zoology Marta Wayne. Wayne, with researchers from UF and associate director of UF’s Genet- to hormone replacement therapy, who specializes in evolutionary other universities, Casella says ics Institute. “It’s complicated, where estrogen in humans seems genetics, is no stranger to collab- another main goal is to establish but it’s the next logical step if to have the opposite effect of orating with statisticians. Since a PhD program in statistical we’re going to start determining estrogen in rats, in terms of heart she was a postdoctoral research genetics at UF. “The new UF relationships between certain disease and cancer. “In this case, fellow at North Carolina State Genetics Institute will help us genes and certain diseases.” Mul- it may be because in the clinical University, Wayne has collabo- bring in faculty in this area, and ligan, who worked at the Nation- studies, an extra hormone was rated with a statistical geneticist we’re already teaching some sta- al Institutes of Health (NIH) added for humans that may have on various projects. “I collaborate tistical genetics courses. A strong before coming to UF in 1999, interacted with the estrogen and with Lauren McIntyre at Purdue PhD program would put UF on has worked on several studies to modified its effects,” explains University, and it’s a longstand- the map as a place of research determine which genes possibly Mulligan. ing collaboration, nearly 10 and teaching in this growing increase or decrease the risk of Associate Professor of Sta- years. Even though I teach at field.” Casella and Wu also are alcoholism. tistics Rongling Wu collaborated NC State’s Summer Institute writing a textbook, Statistical “When I was at NIH, we with Chang-Xing Ma, from in Statistical Genetics, I am an Genetics of Complex Traits, which looked for genetic variants that the College of Medicine, and empirical geneticist, not a statisti- will be published in 2004. increase or decrease the risk of Casella to develop the model. cian. My specialty is applying the Within the next decade, developing alcoholism,” she says. Wu says the software took about theory to the data, but to do the Casella says he expects the field “Two variants, ADH1B and six months to develop. “It was hard stuff, I need my collabora- to advance even more. “We’re ALDH2, had been identified designed for high-resolution tors!” starting to understand more and that appear to protect against mapping of complex traits and Wayne has brainstormed more about the genetic profile of alcoholism. These gene products can help geneticists precisely with Casella on a study she humans and how this relates to have altered kinetic activity that identify the location of genes (for would like to pursue involving health and disease. For example, results in the accumulation of diseases, plant size or milk yield) Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit one day, we’ll be able to take a acetaldehyde, which produces on the genome. This model is flies. “There is an overall pattern drop of blood from someone facial flushing, an accelerated one of the most advanced in we see in fruit flies of laying eggs which contains their DNA and heart rate and nausea, known the genetics literature.” Wu says over the course of their lifetime. tell that person what medica- as the ‘flushing response.’ These traditional models for mapping The majority of female fruit flies tion would work best based on variants are present at high complex traits are a combination have their peak of laying eggs their genetic make-up. It’s an numbers in Asian populations, of genetics and statistics, whereas earlier in life, but sometimes important direction for scientists and the flushing response makes this new model represents inte- the flies lay eggs constantly, and and statisticians to be moving in drinking unpleasant, so people gration among genetics, statistics sometimes it’s reversed with the since the demand for this type of don’t drink, and there is a lower and general biology. most eggs produced later in life. research will only increase, and risk of alcoholism.” Mulligan says without the These exceptions appear to be much of it can only be accom- Now, Mulligan is looking at software, she would have stopped genetic, but we need to develop plished using the expertise of additional variants in the same her study. “We published one a way to statistically evaluate this each other.” two genes in a different popula- paper this summer, but I thought pattern and the variances within —Allyson A. Beutke tion, American Indians, to deter- I was finished with that data it.” Since fruit flies are a model mine if there are other variants set,” she says. “Now that could lead to alcoholism. it’s worth pursuing She is using a new statistical soft- because there is a ware package developed by UF new way to analyze “The new UF Genetics Institute will help us bring in statisticians to analyze the pile of the data and pos- clinical data. “This new program sibly obtain more faculty in this area, and we’re already teaching some incorporates epistatic effects. meaningful results. statistical genetics courses. A strong PhD program Usually, we assume that each It would have been gene acts independently, when almost impossible would put UF on the map as a place of research and in fact that is probably not the to analyze these teaching in this growing field.” case. Epistasis is when two genes data further without interact, so their net effect is a more sophisticated —George Casella

CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 page  Upcoming Events Leading scholars of history, English, French, art his- Around tory and religious studies from across the US will visit UF for the symposium Other Enlightenments: Gen- the College der and the Long Eighteenth Century on January 29–31. The event is sponsored by UF’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the France-Florida In Memory Research Institute, the Office of Research and Gradu- ate Programs, the Center for the Women’s Studies and Astronomy Professor Henry Kandrup died of Gender Research, the Department of History and the natural causes on October 18 at his home in School of Art and Art History. For more informa- Gainesville. The 48-year-old astrophysicist had tion, contact Melissa Hyde at 392-0211, ext. 245 or taught at the university for 13 years. [email protected]. Born in New York City, Kandrup earned an AB in physics from in 1976 The 17th Annual Women’s Leadership Confer- and a PhD in physics from the University of Chi- ence will take place on Sunday, February 8, at the J. cago in 1980. He had appointments at the Uni- Wayne Reitz Union Rion Ballroom. Organized by versity of California, Santa Barbara; the University the Women’s Leadership Council, this year’s theme is of Texas, Austin; the University of Maryland, “What Women Want: It’s Our Prerogative.” The con- College Park; and Oakland ference will be held from 9 am to 4:30 pm and is open University before coming to UF in 1990. to everyone, for a $25 registration fee. Organizational Kandrup taught graduate courses in cosmol- discounts are available. To register online, go to www. ogy and galactic and extragalactic astronomy, as well as the undergraduate course, dso.ufl.edu/wlc/registernow.html or pick up an appli- Exploring the Universe. In 1994, he received a UF Teaching Improvement cation at the Dean of Students Office in Peabody Hall, Program Award. As a researcher, Kandrup was a member of the UF Institute room P202. The registration deadline is January 28. for Fundamental Theory and studied gravitational astrophysics, supported by a For more information, call 392-1261, ext. 235. National Science Foundation grant. “Henry Kandrup was an invaluable faculty member of both the astronomy and physics departments,” says Stan Dermott, chair of the Department of Astronomy. “Student evaluations of his classes show clearly that he was one of McQuown Scholarship our leading teachers. He was also one of our most productive scholars. By nature, he gave the impression of being somewhat reclusive. However, he formed close Applications Due in February and long lasting friendships with all of his many graduate students and they, and The college is currently accepting applications for the the rest of us, will miss his brilliance and humor.” 2004–2005 O. Ruth McQuown scholarship program, The astronomy department held a memorial service for Kandrup at the created in honor of the first woman associate dean in Baughman Center on December 6. A conference also is being organized in his CLAS, O. Ruth McQuown. The scholarship recog- honor on the astronomical applications of non-linear dynamics and should take nizes outstanding female students in the humanities, place in 2004. social sciences, women studies and interdisciplinary studies in these areas, and is open to current under- graduate and graduate students, as well as incoming John K. Mahon, former chair of the history department, died at his Gainesville graduate students. Up to five undergraduates will be home on October 11 at the age of 91. awarded between $500 and $3,000 and two graduate Born February 8, 1912, in Ottumwa, Iowa, Mahon was called to active students, one incoming and one current, will receive military duty in 1942, delaying his entrance to academia. After his discharge in $8,000 plus tuition. The deadline to apply is February 1946, he received his PhD in history from the University of California at Los 20 for current UF students and February 6 for incom- Angeles. Mahon came to Gainesville in 1954, accepting a teaching position in ing graduate students. Application forms are available the Department of History. He served as chair of the department from 1965- in 2014 Turlington Hall and online at www.clas.ufl. 1973 and retired from UF in 1982. edu/scholarships/ruthmcquown.htm. For more infor- A military historian by specialization, his book, The History of the Second mation, contact Yumiko Hulvey at yhulvey@ aall.ufl. Seminole War, was published in 1967, and is still regarded as the authority on the edu or 392-6800. subject. Mahon also was president of the local chapter of the Sierra Club, board member of the Alachua Conservation Trust and the Seminole Wars Historic Foundation, and president of the Florida Historical Society. UF History Professor Eldon Turner remembers Mahon’s role as a military CLASnotes encourages letters to the editor. E-mail edi- historian who understood the history of warfare was fundamental to the great [email protected] or send a letter to CLASnotes, PO Box movements of power among nations. Turner says Mahon led the Department of 117300, Gainesville FL 32611. CLASnotes reserves the History with a “no-muss, no-fuss style that reflected his personality.” Upon his right to edit submissions for punctuation and length. retirement, an annual teaching award was named in Mahon’s honor. page  CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 DEPARTMENT NEWS Anthropology Classics mogeneity and Quantum Inter- Psychology H. Russell Bernard received Jennifer A. Rea gave a lecture ference in Disordered Cuprate Dana Byrd, a doctoral can- the 2003 Franz Boas Award for titled “Temples and Treasuries Superconductors.” didate in developmental psy- exemplary service to anthro- in Roman Politics and Litera- chology, has been named the pology at the 102nd annual ture” at Stetson University on Hendrik Monkhorst has national recipient of the Ruth meeting of the American November 10. received two patents for dis- G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Anthropological Association in covering a new type of energy Scholarship from the Ameri- November. Bernard is a lead- Criminology and Law conversion from nuclear fusion. can Psychological Foundation ing figure in both quantitative Different from proposed meth- and the Council of Graduate Alex Piquero will participate ods of obtaining electric power and qualitative research meth- in a two-year project funded Departments of Psychology. She ods. He received the award from a fusion reactor, Monk- has received $3,000 to continue by the National Science horst has found a technique in part for maintaining the Foundation called “Setting a her research examining the holistic tradition of anthropol- that will extract this power non- neurological components of National Agenda for Research thermally, increasing efficiency ogy exemplified by Franz Boas, on Race/Ethnicity, Crime, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity an early founder of American from 40 to 80 percent. This Disorder. Criminal Justice.” The purpose technique will be used at the anthropology. of the project is to develop a Colliding Beam Fusion Reac- Romance Languages national research agenda on tor in Lake Forest, California, Helen Safa also was honored the interrelationships among and Literatures at the meeting. She received which was built to test this race/ethnicity, crime and process, and will help make Spanish Professor Andrés Avel- the 2003 Conrad Arensberg criminal justice. Piquero will laneda has been appointed Award from the Society for the nuclear power safe, clean and participate in several national affordable. chair of the Bryce Wood Book Anthropology of Work for her meetings. Award Committee of the Latin pioneering studies on work, Chris Stanton has been elected American Studies Association, class, gender and development English which honors the best book with an emphasis on Latin as a fellow of the American James Haskins published in English on Latin America. has written 59 Physical Society for his theoreti- sidebars in the Encyclopedia cal contributions to nonequi- American Studies. He also recently published three articles: Also at the meeting, two fac- Civil Rights Chronicles, covering librium phenomena in semi- the period of 1950 to 1969, Jim conductors and applications “Recordando con ira: estrategias ulty members assumed elected ideológicas y ficcionales argen- offices in the association. Anita Crow laws, race and the crimi- to ultrafast laser spectroscopy. nal justice system. He also has Only half of one percent of the tinas a fin de siglo,” in Revista Spring will serve as the applied Iberoamericana; “Eva Perón: anthropologist on the ethics been appointed as a member of total APS membership is select- the editorial advisory committee ed for fellowship in the society cuerpo y cadáver de la litera- committee, and Susan D. Gil- tura,” in Evita: mito y represen- lespie is chair-elect of the arche- for the Online Encyclopedia of each year. This year, a total of Alabama. 215 new fellows were elected. taciones; and “Bioy mirando al ology division. In addition, J. sudeste,” in Homenaje a Adolfo Richard Stepp was honored for Mark A. Reid Political Science Bioy Casares. his two years of service on the presented the executive board. paper “When Sue Wears Red: Leslie Anderson recently The Black Femme Fatale in Spanish Professor Geraldine presented a paper in Spanish, Nichols was the keynote speak- Chemistry Cinematic Horror” at the “Parties in the Nicaraguan conference Black American er at the Mid-America Confer- Alan Katritzky presented a Democratic Transition: The ence on Hispanic Literatures, Cinema Re-Considered: The Contribution of Pre-democratic keynote lecture at the Scientific Contemporary Scene, held held at the University of Colo- Partnership Foundation Inter- Parties to a New Democracy,” rado in Boulder in October. She at New York University on at the First Central American national Conference in Mos- November 7–8. spoke on the representation of cow in October, where he was Congress of Political Science in the Spanish Civil War in the San Jose, Costa Rica. The paper awarded the Crystal Globe and Physics novels of several contempo- a diploma for his outstanding will be published in the new rary women authors. She also Peter Hirschfeld contributions to world sciences. visited the book Selected Proceedings of the recently published two reviews He also was recently elected as Interdisciplinary Center for First Central American Congress and an article on a new genera- a foreign member of the Indian Theoretical Studies of the Chi- of Political Science, which will be tion of novelists in Mujeres nov- National Science Academy. nese Academy of Sciences in printed in 2004. elistas: jóvenes narradoras de los Beijing in October and gave a noventa in Madrid. series of lectures titled “Inho-

Read CLASnotes online at http://clasnews.clas.ufl.edu CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 page  Grants through the Division of Sponsored Research October 2002–September 2003 Total: $54,056,739

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page  CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 through the Division of Sponsored Research October 2002–September 2003 Total: $54,056,739 Vouching to Quit

Smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the US, killing more than 440,000 people a year. Of the estimated 46.5 million Americans who smoke, 70 percent would like to quit, though few are able to do so. Psychology Professor Jesse Dallery, aided by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, has developed an innovative new way to help smokers kick the habit. “You have to increase their motivation not to smoke,” Dallery says. “The question is, what kind of incentive is power- ful enough? If your health, the cost of cigarettes, the stains to your teeth and clothes isn’t powerful enough, what will provide enough incentive for a smoker to quit? My research argues that if you deliver immediate incentives of a great enough magni- tude, you can compete with smoking.” Dallery’s answer is offering the smokers in his research study vouchers to shop online at Target, Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Gap, JCPenney, Best Buy, Chili’s and many other vendors if they quit smoking and sustain cessation. The longer participants maintain abstinence, the greater the dollar amount of their vouchers. Once they have enough voucher money saved up to buy a product they want from any of the 21 partici- pating vendors, participants simply submit a request to Dallery, who orders the product and ships it minutes and frees participants from traveling to the lab for time- directly to their door. consuming tests. “This is one innovative To participate in the study, individuals must have a long way to reach hardcore smokers,” history of smoking—at least five years—with no successful quit Dallery says. “The study is geared attempts. They must smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day and toward heavy smokers who have have no intention to quit. They cannot be on the patch, Zyban, been smoking for a long period of use nicotine gum or any other variety of smoking cessation aids. Jesse Dallery time and really have no motivation Dallery has conducted the study for the past four months, and to quit. These are the people who many of the participants so far are hardcore chain-smokers, con- are not reachable through current suming about three packs a day. “To get any sustained period of treatment.” abstinence with these people is pretty remarkable,” he says. “And But for those chain-smokers out there who think they can so far, it’s working.” walk away with the prizes and still continue smoking, think Dallery has received NIH funding to continue the study at again. The study does not operate on the honor system. Dal- $100,000 a year for two years. Once the results are in, he plans lery has designed a program that is virtually cheatproof. Using to research more economical ways to use incentives to help peo- a carbon monoxide monitor, participants have to take a breath ple stop smoking. He also wants to look at how using products test every night under the watchful eye of a Webcam. They like the nicotine patch and Zyban, along with incentives, will simply blow into the monitor—which calculates how much increase a smoker’s ability to kick the habit. carbon monoxide is in their lungs—and show the results to the —Buffy Lockette Webcam, which records the whole process. They then e-mail the video clip to Dallery. The whole process takes a matter of

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CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 page  Bookbeat Recent publications from CLAS faculty

Orange Journalism: Voices from Florida Newspapers Walt Disney World, Cape Canaveral, of the St. Petersburg Times. Representatives from medium-sized the 2000 presidential election and Hur- papers such as the Sarasota Herald Tribune were interviewed, as well ricane Andrew. When you are working for as weekly papers like the Polk County Democrat. The minority press a newspaper in Florida, there is never a was also highlighted with the African American paper Miami Times shortage of things to write about. Known and the Hispanic publication Diario las Americas. as the breeding ground of some of the Lively and engaging, the interviews offer insight about the sta- world’s best journalists, including 37 tus of women in a traditionally male profession, the impact of new Pulitzer Prize winners, Florida is recog- technology on newspapers, and management differences between nized throughout the industry for pro- large conglomerates and state papers. ducing some of the most outstanding One of Pleasants’ favorite passages in Julian Pleasants, Oral History, newspapers in the country. Orange Journalism is included in the 19- author of Orange Journalism, University Press of Florida. “Florida probably has more page chapter on the 1996 Pulitzer Prize good newspapers than any other state,” winner Rick Bragg, a former Miami Her- says Julian Pleasants, director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History ald reporter. “A story is what it’s really all Program and author of Orange Journalism, a new book offering the about, and that’s all I really care about,” inside scoop on the Florida newspaper business. Published this fall Bragg says. “The thought of running by the University Press of Florida, the 339-page book is a compila- some small newspaper somewhere, of try- tion of interviews with newspaper publishers, editors, writers and ing to put together the kind of newsroom editorial cartoonists—from huge conglomerates to small indepen- where reporters are excited about their dents—discussing many issues and concerns of the 900 weeklies work—you know, the kind of place where and 375 dailies printed in the state. they slap high fives when they come back Comprised of interviews collected by the Oral History Program, from pinning the city councilman up against the wall with their the book is divided into 15 chapters, each including an introduction question, or writing a lead so good they have to get up from their by Pleasants, followed by a transcript of an interview. The project was terminal and walk it off—that is very seductive.” funded by the Florida Press Association, which gave the oral history “I love the way he says that because it talks about his love of program $23,500 to interview as many Florida newspaper pioneers as journalism and his love of writing,” Pleasants says. “To me, that possible. kind of sums up what the newspaper business is all about.” Over the course of four years, a host of the state’s leading print —Buffy Lockette journalists were interviewed, including Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today; Carl Hiaasen of the Miami Herald, and Lucy Morgan

Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis The Vietnamese language heavily relies culture, Pham created a heritage and non- on the speaker—a different tone of voice heritage course. She says the different classes may produce different word meanings. A allow non-Vietnamese students to learn long-standing myth, however, is that pitch a new language they have probably never determines the tone of the language. Pro- been exposed to while giving Vietnamese fessor Andrea Hoa Pham seeks to disbar students a further exploration of their own this falsehood in her new book Vietnamese culture. Currently, Pham teaches Vietnam- Tone: A New Analysis. ese I and II and hopes to develop a litera- This reader-friendly version of ture course. Pham’s 2001 doctoral dissertation “While I do not teach my research in Andrea Hoa Pham, African presents her research, which studies class, as a language teacher, I am able to test and Asian Languages and Literatures, author of Viet- breathiness and creakiness as the basis my hypothesis on my students,” Pham says. “Students have differ- namese Tone: A New Analy- for tone in Vietnamese. Pham says alter- ent reasons for wanting to take the course; dating in the Vietnamese sis, Routledge. ing breathiness and creakiness in tone culture, spreading the culture, or simply learning the language. So it is changes the settings, which ultimately now or never to maintain high enrollment in both the non-native and changes the meaning. For her research, Pham spent time in her native heritage classes to ensure future development of the program.” Vietnam and specifically studied the country’s northern dialect. —Kimberly A. Lopez Pham came to UF in 2002, and she teaches Vietnamese lan- guage courses. Recognizing the different levels of proficiency based on page 10 CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 Autobiographical Paternalism Incor- Messy Beginnings: Memory: Explor- porated: Fables of Postcoloniality and ing Its Functions American Father- Early American in Everyday Life, hood, 1865–1940, Studies, edited edited by Susan David Leverenz by Malini Johar Bluck (Psychol- (English), Cornell Schueller (Eng- ogy), Psychology University Press lish) and Edward Press Watts, Rutgers Between the Civil University Press This special issue War and World of the Psychol- War I, the corpo- When scholars ogy Press journal rate transforma- imagine American Memory aims tion of American postcolonialism, to encourage research that uses a functional work created widespread desire for upward they think either of contemporary multi- approach to investigate autobiographical mobility along with widening class divi- culturalism or imperialism since 1898. This memory (AM) in everyday life. The papers sions. In this book, David Leverenz examines narrow view has left more than the two in this issue include theoretical and empiri- several significant narrative constructs that prior centuries of colonizing literary and cal work by individuals who have made emerge at the intersection between paternalist political culture unexamined. Messy Begin- central contributions to our understanding practices and more democratic possibilities nings challenges the idea of early America’s of memory functions in their programmatic for self-advancement. From Mark Twain’s immunity from issues of imperialism and of work. Previously hypothesized functions of Laura Hawkins in The Gilded Age to Willa its separation from European colonialism. By AM fall into three broad domains: self, social Cather’s Alexandra Bergson in O Pioneers!, addressing a range of literary texts and exam- and directive. Each paper addresses how AM Leverenz finds that “daddy’s girl” constrains ining the work of key postcolonial theorists, serves one or more of these functions and the emerging threat of the career woman the contributors to this volume explore the thereby examines the usefulness and adequa- even as it articulates the lure of upward applicability of such models to early Ameri- cy of this trio. mobility for women. By surveying the figure can culture. They argue against the idea that —Amazon of the “daddy’s boy,” Leverenz examines ten- the colonization of what became the United sions between young men’s desires for upward States was simply a confrontation between Radical Space: mobility and older men’s desires for paternal European culture and a singular “other.” Building the control. Their analyses reveal that the formation of House of the —Book jacket America resulted from messy or unstable People, Margaret negotiations of the idea of “nation.” Kohn (Political Tales of the Heart —Book jacket Science), Cornell and Other Brain- University Press less Organs, Rob- Globalizing the ert J. Scholes Sacred: Religion Epoch-making (Professor Emeri- Across the Ameri- political events tus, Communi- cas, Manuel A. are often remem- cation Sciences Vásquez (Reli- bered for their and Disorders), gion) and Marie spatial markers: iUniverse Friedmann Mar- the fall of the quardt, Rutgers Berlin Wall, the storming of the Bastille, A soldier who University Press the occupation of Tiananmen Square. Until shoots a moose to recently, however, political theory has over- fulfill his training, Drawing on case looked the power of place. In Radical Space, a husband who makes a movie with a famous studies in the Margaret Kohn puts space at the center of Japanese porn star, a garage mechanic who United States democratic theory. Kohn examines different seeks wives through mail-order bride services, and Latin America, Manuel A. Vásquez and sites of working-class mobilization in Europe a beach blanket serial killer, a pedophile high Marie Friedmann Marquardt explore the and explains how these sites destabilized the school English teacher, an aging scholar who evolving roles of religion in the Americas in existing patterns of social life, economic activ- looks for fulfillment in the sex markets of the face of globalization, transnational migra- ity, and political participation. Her approach Bangkok, a young professor who finds that tion, the rapid growth of culture industries, suggests new ways to understand the popular truth is not what schools are after, and a the rise of computer mediated technologies, public sphere of the early twentieth century. malevolent picture frame that brings death to and the crisis of modernity. Combining eth- —Book jacket anyone whose image it embraces—these and nographic research in local congregations, other misguided searches for love and happi- studies of material culture and sacred space, ness are explored in these short stories. textual analyses, and approaches to mass and —Publisher electronic media, the authors challenge domi- nant paradigms in sociology of religion. —Book jacket

CLASnotes December 2003 / January 2004 page 11 CLASSC Wishes UF a Happy 150th Birthday

For the 2003 UF Homecoming Parade on November 7, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Council (CLASSC) built its first- ever float. Led by political science sophomore and CLASSC execu- tive-at-large Jason Goldman, the CLASSC Homecoming Committee spent nearly three weeks building the float, a giant birthday cake pay- ing tribute to UF’s 150th birthday celebration in 2003. Many of the 25 student organizations under CLASSC helped construct the float. CLASSC president Andrew Hoffman, a junior psychology major, says the final 12 hours of float building were the most intense. “We had a final wrap-up the day before the parade, and about 10 of us worked from 5 pm Thursday night to 5 am Friday morning, and we got about two hours of sleep! But it was worth it!”

Left to right: Jason Goldman (executive-at-large and Homecoming Committee chair), Andrew Hoffman (president) and Joshua Gellers (executive-at-large) ride on the CLASSC float.

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