VERITAFor the Faculty and Staff of the University of Miami July/August 1996 VoS TI-TI UM, FSU collaboration to strengthen interdisciplinary research

he University of Miami has ly been separated by- academic disci­ joined forces with Florida State plines and institutional barriers. TUniversity in a unique collabo­ • Joint efforts to create a center for rative agreement that will strengthen climate prediction research with the institutions' research efforts in vari­ emphasis on the El Nino-Southern ous disciplines. Oscillation (ENSO) climate phenome­ The partnership promises more non. The partnership w-ill enhance interdisciplinary research that should efforts underway- through a consortium prove more competitive for external of several Florida universities, includ­ funding. More broad-based educational ing the University of South Florida and exchanges, joint course offerings, and the University- of Florida. faculty exchanges also are expected to In this effort, the University of Miami, working closely with UF, will "My- colleagues and I are excited concentrate on risk assessment and about this agreement with our friends risk management. Florida State Univer­ from Florida State University," says sity will provide climatological analy­ President Edward T. Foote II. "Faculty- sis, wind fields, and, along with USF, members at our institutions have been develop regional predictions of ENSO- working together on research projects related climate changes. for many- years. This agreement reaf­ • Research utilizing magnetic reso­ firms and strengthens our commitment nance technology. Taking advantage of to interdisciplinary research and Partners for the future: President Edward T. Foote II (right) is joined by FSU President the existing facilities and infrastructure education." Talbot D'Alembert (left) and Chancellor Charles Reed at trie signing of their research at the National High Magnetic Field Adds FSU President Talbot D'Alem- Laboratory (NHMFL), UM scientists and berte, "The wave of the future for medical faculty could assist the universities is collaboration. This part­ • Development of a national risk resource for government and industry- NHMFL—Florida State University, Uni­ nership will make us more efficient assessment and intervention center that planners. versity of Florida, and the Los Alamos and more productive. It's a win-win would allow- the respective medical The UM-FSU partnership is expect­ National Laboratory—in describing situation." and scientific faculties to develop cost- ed to bring together individuals with future research efforts and programs. Initially, the schools will concentrate effective and efficient interventions for diverse academic interests—including Numerous other areas of research their efforts on three major research human behaviors identified as health social scientists, demographers, and and education are being discussed projects: risks. This could lead to a national medical faculty—who have traditional- —Conchita Ruiz-Topinka

Songwriter Jerry Herman returns to the scene of his student days omposer-lyricist Jerry Herman he explains. "I've given them all the experienced his own musical tips that my experience with the show- C homecoming last spring when has taught me." the Broadway legend returned to cam­ Herman worked individually- with pus for the rededication of the theater the players, including alumna Gail that now- bears his name. The Jerry- Edwards in the tide role, suggesting Herman Ring when to pause, and w-hen to pour it Theatre boasts on. "For instance. I told them to start SI."7 million in the Mame' number very quietly-. It's renov-ations, my favorite thing in the show-. It's very much here. It including the intense and quiet." stage and seat- Which is how- the actors character­ was a drama ing a ized Herman the mentor—gentle, but named in very- intense. department that honor of the Herman enjoyed working with the Ah in Sherman students, too. "They're a delight." made you do Family. Known for writing some of the Herman American musical theater's best-loved theater and not returned to the works—Hello. Dolly' and La Cage aux scene of his Folles. as well as Mame—Jerry- Herman Theatre arts students worked closely with the legendary composer-lyricist Jerry own musical began his remarkable career as a the­ Herman, who supervised the final rehearsals of Mame. theater educa­ atre arts student in the 1950s. By- his tion to help senior year, his genius was well estab­ recalls. Which forced him to learn pro­ experience often proved handy to the coach today's lished, having penned songs for sever­ duction skills and not simply compos­ two-time Tony and Grammy Award students in the al of the department's ensemble ing. Upon being told he had to light a winner. When lighting designers were finer points of his hit show. Mame. productions. show, he balked. "I'm going to be a at a loss, he was known to suggest. which officially- reopened the theater. "I learned so much here. It was a songwriter," he protested. "What do I "Try an amber gel." He smiles. "It's very satisfying for me to give drama department that made y-ou do need to know- about amber gels?" "I got a very good background." them litde hints into their characters." theater and not sit in a classroom." he As it turned out. the variety of —Leslie Sternlieb Supplemental Instruction offers support for students seeking more

any members of the faculty stresses. "I have seen students achieve fall, a total of eight classes ^ Provost, at 284-6434. Pamphlets further already are aware of the vari­ more than they might have otherwise." included during the spring s explaining the program are also avail­ Mety of academic support ser­ says SI leader Philip Barnes, a junior in They covered a range of material, able, along with an article by Gary E. vices the University has to offer the School of Engineering. including chemistry, mathematics, com­ Widmar. "Supplemental Instruction: students, such as the Writing Center Barnes observes an additional bene­ puter science, management science, From Small Beginnings to a National and the Center for Reading and Study fit—the leader is learning the material and communication. Program." Neu- Directions for Teaching Skills. Last fall, the University added better than ever before. "We are anticipating targeting an and Learning, No. 60, 2-10. Winter another innovative program, Supple­ Students volunteer for the program. additional three mathematics courses, a 1994, Jossey-Bass Publishers. mental Instruction (SI). According to SI leader .Ashly- Sloan- finance, and a management science —Valerie Manno Giroux "SI doesn't iden­ Brinkley, a senior in course for next fall," says Price. Valerie Manno Giroux is a lecturer in tify- at-risk students, international finance Faculty interested in implementing the School of Communication and fac­ but at-risk courses." and marketing, "The this innovative approach should con­ ulty consultant at the Instructional says a^ssistant ability of students to tact Anna Price, Office of the Assistant Advancement Center. Provost Anna Price. self-select encour­ The program ages motivation and debuted in five avoids the stigma classes known for often attached to Faculty honored with Excellence their failure rates of being singled out 20 percent or more. for tutoring." in Teaching Awards Supplemental The most chal­ Instruction could lenging aspect of even professors upholding the newsroom again," says the managing help change that. the program is that highest standards in education editor of the Miami News Service, a To get the pro­ the student leaders Swere selected by their students component of the master's-level print gram going, profes­ do not directly and peers as the 1996 winners of journalism program. sors were asked to answer questions. the Excellence in Teaching Awards. Professor of Philosophy Harvey recommend a stu­ 1 According to Price, Here are some of their perspectives on Siegel, who also teaches masters dent who had <£• "Sometimes the what makes for master degree students, sees strength in team earned "As" in the Valerie Manno Giroux leaders run into dif­ educators. targeted classes. The ficulty with the tech­ "Good teaching is future SI leaders completed nical mathematics courses because indeed about the love training, with emphasis on how to they cannot give the answers." Instead, of your subject matter," develop critical thinking skills in others. leaders encourage students to critically says the Department of "Supplemental Instruction is more analyze and apply learning strategies. History Assistant Profes­ than tutoring," says Price, who is also Perhaps frustrating at first, it inspires sor Hermann Beck. the SI program supervisor. An SI leader students to develop into more rigorous "What I really- like is introduced and attends class with thinkers. are students," says Pro­ the students, reads the books, and Price conducts weekly staff meet­ fessor of Photography- takes notes, she explains. Outside of ings with SI leaders. Together, they Michael Carlebach. class, they facilitate learning sessions discuss any concerns they might have "They- enrich my life." with the students two to three times a regarding logistics and attendance, and "I teach," says busi­ week. the advancement of students through ness law Associate Pro­ These are not repeat lectures, but examination reports. fessor a\nita Cava, Representing excellence: (from left) David Fisher, hands-on learning experiences, she Because of its initial success last "because I love to learn Hermann Beck, Joanna Lombard, Anita Cava, Harvey myself." Siegel, Michael Carlebach, and Tsitsi Wakhisi. "Good research is the foundation of good teaching," says teaching. And when students of Profes­ Engineering security system aAssociate Professor of architecture sor of Geology David Fisher leave his Joanna Lombard. "But good teaching classroom, he hopes they are inspired looks you right in the eye helps you in terms of good research." to pursue geology-, marine, and envi­ Being a lecturer in the School of ronmental science as a career. n innovative new security sys­ assets," says M. Lew-is Temares, dean Communication enables Tsitsi Wakhisi "The core of it all is to love teach­ tem designed to scan human of the College of Engineering. "We are to satisfy her love of journalism and of ing," observes Prov-ost Luis Glaser, A faces instead of decoding looking at the many- possibilities for teaching. "I would not go back into a "and you represent that." computer passwords has been installed this system to be used throughout the at the College of Engineering. University, and we are very pleased to In simplest terms, the system is be the site of the first tests." based on the fact that no two faces in Rather than using passwords or PIN the world are exactly the same. numbers—which may be used fraudu­ lently-—the One-on-One system uses a Take Our person's face for identification purpos­ es. Recorded by- a v-ideo camera, the Daughters images are digitized, creating a numeri­ to Work' cal facial signature that is encoded in a computer chip in a "smart card." At the program security site, the owner inserts the card raises into a reader, where a camera captures the user's face and compares it to the awareness data imprinted in the card. A positive ID is made in less than one second. Dozens of budding The video security system can What differentiates this system from professionals clicked on recognize people, thereby enhancing conventional recognition technology- is the answer to "What do safety. that the information is stored in a card, you want to be when whereas other systems must store the you grow up?" when "One-on-One" was developed by the information in a computer database. they enjoyed time at the Coral Gables firm Identification Tech­ Company- executives said it will be University as part of nologies International (in) and was difficult to fool the system—even iden­ Take Our Daughters to installed at a 2-i-hour study room and tical twins can be distinguished. Work Day." Students and their family members were also invited to career shop computer lab at no cost to the college. ITI. which builds unique products on the computers at the Toppel Career Planning and Placement Center after a "This is an exciting use of technolo­ in information technology-, includes a luncheon. Sponsored at the University by the Women's Commission, the event is gy- at a technologically advanced insti­ 20-person research and development part of an international public education effort launched in 1993 by the Ms. tute and provides the added benefit of team headed by- Kedu Han. a biomed­ Foundation to give girls a glimpse of their own future potential. preventing theft and securing our ical engineering alumnus. LIMELIGHT Cattle ranching the ultimate escape for Bascom Palmer administrator very Friday at 5 o'clock. Gaby- For many years. Kressly- and her Kressly- leaves her desk at Bas­ family traveled across the nation, imag­ E com Palmer Eye Institute and ining places that would make for heads out on the highway- in pursuit of beautiful summer homes. some weekend adventuring. "We wanted a place we could enjoy- "I escape." she says, "to 50 head of every- weekend, not just once or twice cattle." a year." she remembers. "So my hus­ Kressly-. the director of administra­ band and I took out a protractor, tion for the Department of Ophthal­ placed one point on Miami and the mology-, for the past 20 years has pencil on a point four hours away, and made a weekly ritual of traveling up began our search within that radius." the coast with her husband to Lake The hunt turned up some choice Placid, home of their land above Lake Okeechobee, off U.S.- 100-acre Beefmaster 27. The only catch—it was surrounded cattle ranch. by water. Undaunted, they- built a "My husband bridge and eventually transformed the always wanted to own raw land into a ranch, complete with land and you can't fences, barns, and a house (home own land if y-ou don't improvements continue to this day). do anything with it." They even pulled in their own drink­ says the plain-spoken ing water. Kressly-. For the past six years they- have At the ranch, Kress­ bred Beefmasters—considered the top ly forgets about her of the line—to upgrade commercial cares as an administra­ herds. Previously, they raised show- tor and transforms Happy trails: Gaby Kressly relaxes in the midst of chores at her 100-acre cattle ranch. horses—Paints, Palominos, and Mor­ into a bona fide gans—but that enterprise proved too ranch-hand—feeding the business of the University of Miami the ground, tagging them with a serial costly. cattle, cleaning medical group. number inside the ear. "'Some day we're going to have cat­ troughs, fixing fences, and dragging Back on the ranch, Kressly- partici­ "They are very gentle, easygoing tle,'" Kressly recalls her husband say­ fields. Sometimes, however, she can't pates in cattle roundups every few- creatures. The cattle recognize our ing, "'and we're going to do it right.'" resist dipping into her briefcase, brim­ months, assisting the veterinarians as vehicle and greet us when we pull in," Tw-o prize bulls sold last fall to a ming with Bascom Palmer business. they administer tests, shots, and she says. breeder. "They were the best bulls A 34-year veteran of one of the medication. While this may not be the average you're going to get," Kressly says world's leading eye institutes, Kressly "We round em up, head em out, person's idea of a weekend retreat, the proudly of the big guys. began there as its fifth employee. and run them though the shoots," she solitude offered by the Lake Placid The most difficult thing, she adds, is Today, she works with 200 employees, hideaway is unbeatable. "The nearest "that they die. It's like losing a friend." directs the finances of the ophthalmol- Just like in Rawhide. But unlike the person is one mile away, as the crow —Leslie Sternlieb and gy department, works with research familiar images of western cowpokes, flies," she says. "Guests often tell me Liliana Davidson Tower faculty and clinical programs, manages the Kresslys do not brand their cattle. they never really knew- how quiet personnel issues, and helps coordinate They do, however, w-restle calves to

Helen Muir archives secure future of local lore cholars exploring South Florida's U.S.A., first published in 1953, which ter Institute of Literature, it past are now- able to uncover a she is currently revising for this year's was all he needed to become Srich new- trove of source material city centennial. a snowbird. prov-ided by- a writer and historian who "I did not save these papers in a Muir first met Frost in 1941 is herself a local legend. Helen Muir— calculating way."' says Muir, who is 85- on assignment as a freelance who has documented the panoply of "But in the course of being in the journalist. Her recollections Miami history since arriving in 1934— newspaper business, I've collected a form the basis of her most recently donated her collection of files, lot of stuff," she say-s, "I have a huge recent book, Frost in Florida, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, closet." a Memoir. and letters to the Otto G. Richter Muir's inquiries over the past six "She had a perspective on Library. decades introduced her to the era's Robert Frost that few people With change nothing but a constant unfolding newsreel of events and peo­ have," says historian and UM in Miami, Muir has assured the survival ple. One of them was poet Robert Trustee Ar\z Parks McCabe. of local lore with a collection that Frost, with whom she shared a 22-year "He was so important to includes correspondence with literary friendship. American thought and letters." and political notables, and notes and When the New England bard took Among Muir's papers are research materials from her articles and up an invitation from the University of several privately printed, books, including the classic Miami. Miami in 1935 to participate in its Win- inscribed editions of Frost's books of poetry, plus letters from other members of his A modern treatment of a 19th-century classic family-. "What she has amassed in The holdings of the Department of Archives and Special Collections continue to her papers is very- valuable." expand. The library recently received a modern edition of trie literary classic, Flatland, says Parks. "It wasn't just who a work of science Action written in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott, which depicts an entirely the figures were, it was her Helen Muir, pictured at her typewriter in 1941. has two-dimensional world inhabited by plane geometric figures. Donated by Ruth and keen observational skills that been writing about South Florida for more than six Marvin Sackner. trie 1980 edition includes hand-colored, die-cut illustrations of the make the material valuable." decades. novel's square, triangular, and straight-line characters. The text is printed in an Says William E. Brown. Jr.. accordion-fold format—extending to 33 feet—ratrier than as separate pages. The rare head of archiv-es and special collec­ The research guide and synopsis of edition was published by Andrew Hoyem of the Arion Press and is available to view tions at the library-, "Helen is a signifi her papers will soon be available to by faculty and staff by appointment. Please call William E. Brown, Jr. at Archives and cant writer on Miami history. Her scholars on the Internet, making histo­ Special Collections at 284-3551. papers are an important piece of the ry- an electronic medium, too. historical puzzle." —Leslie Sternlieb

July/August 1996 1996 Summer awards presented to faculty members

Max Orovitz Summer Awards in Michael Rothberg. English, "Docu­ Una M. Galloway. Finance. "Under- Charles R. Schnitzlein. Finance. "The Arts and the Humanities 1996 menting Barbarism: Memory. Culture, writer Compensation in Seasoned Relative Performance of Search and Joseph Alkana. English. "Handmaid­ and Modernity- aUter the Final Solution" Equity- Offerings" Dealer Markets Under Asymmetric: An ens. Mediators, and Critics: Multiple Experimental Investigation" Identities and the Literature of Mid- Guido Ruggiero. History. "Lost Anito Joseph, Management Science, Nineteenth-Century .America" Treasures: Tales of Early- Science and "Developing Test Problems for the Maurice E. Schweitzer. Management, Everyday- Culture" General Integer Programming "Cost Effectiveness of Early Mammo­ Leslie Bow, English, "Divided Loyal­ Problem" graphy Screening in Black and Hispan- ties: Gendered Nationalism in aAsian J. Joyce Schuld. Religious Studies, American Women's Literature" "Cultural Practices, Politics and Power: Janette Klingner. Teaching and The Ethics of Suspicion in Augustine Learning, "Fostering Strategic Reading Summer Awards in Natural Dexter Callender, Jr.. Religious & Foucault" in Heterogeneous Classrooms" Sciences and Engineering 1996 Studies. "The Figure of the Primal Man Eric D. Belsley. Mathematics and in Israelite Literature and the Ancient Jeffrey Shoulson. English, "Milton Karen V. Lombard. Economics, Computer Sciences, "To Study Why the Near East" and the Rabbis: Poetry- as Theodicy, "Measuring Real Wages: Problems and Cutoff Phenomenon Occurs and to Interpretation as Literature" Potential Improvements'" (a Joint Develop Criteria Which Predict When Leonard Carrier, Philosophy. "Mortal Work with Kevin M. Murphy. Univer­ a Given Family of Markov Chains Will Souls: A Neo-Aristotelian Theory of the Harvey Siegel, Philosophy, "Natural­ sity of Chicago) Exhibit a Variation Cutoff Human Psyche" ism and the Instrumental Conception of Epistemic Justification" Anthony D. Miyazaki. Marketing, Jeffrey Evanseck, Chemistry, "Rethink­ Russell Castronovo. English, "State-Sponsored Lotteries in the ing Structure-Function Relationships in "Remembering Freedom: The Thomas Sleeper, Instrumental Perfor­ United States: Examining Underly-ing Biosupramolecular Chemistry" Language, Limits, and aAlternativ-es of mance, "Threnos: Oklahoma City" Motivations for Purchase and Nonpur- American Political Discourse" chase Behavior" Liu Hongtan. Mechanical Engineering, Michelle R. Wright. Foreign "Double-Pass Hybrid Phovoltaic/Ther- Edward Erwin, Philosophy, "Post- Languages and Literature, "Excalibur: Monroe, Political Science, mal Solar Collector" Modernist Clinical Epistemologies" History on the Edge" "Legislative Campaign Committees in the aVmerican States" Philip L. Keating, Geography, "The Thomas A. Goodman. English, James W. McLamore Summer Biogeography- and Disturbance Ecolo­ "Transmutation and Transubstantiation: Awards in Business and Social Rajnandini Pillai, Management, gy of the Northern Ecuadorian aAndes" Politics and Poetics in Chaucer's Sciences 1996 "Leadership Effectiveness Models in 'Canon's Yeoman's Tale'" Alice Ackermann, Graduate School Different Cultures: A Comparative Marion Preest. Biology, "Acidity and of International Studies, "Ethnic and Study of the U.S., India, and Chile" Amphibian Performance: The Role of Tom Gormley, Art and Art History, "A Regional Conflict and Preventive Episodic Exposure to Low PH" Dozen Eggs or Maybe A Baker's Diplomacy: The Case of Macedonia" Lawrence R. Robertson, Graduate Dozen/Medium, Large and Extra Large" School of International Studies, Keith C. Russell. Chemistry, "Self- Diane M. Christophel. Speech Commu­ "Institutions, Credibility, and the Politi­ Assembled Molecular Wires" Joanna Lombard, architecture. nication, "Communication Orientations of cal Economy of Reform in the Former "Wilderness and Cultivation: The Work Russia: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Soviet States, 1992-1994" Ali R. Shahin. Mechanical Engineering, of William Lyman Phillips" St. Petersburg and Moscow" "Robust Control of Shape Memory" Thomas R. Robinson, Accounting, Perri Lee Roberts, aArt and An History, Raymond P.H. Fishe, Finance, "Detection of Earnings Management: A Michael R. Wang, Electrical and "The Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in "How to Determine the Value of Non- Comprehensive Model" Computer Engineering, "Waveguide North American Public Collections" Transferable Employees" Photonic Band Gap Structures"

Commencement challenges students to translate education into action

r of degrees, this Catholic nun, referring to the mandate springtime celebration called of St. Dominic, the founder of her Public Service. Adrian Dominican order. H. Norman To be precise, 2,351 degrees were "Contemplation comes when one Schwarzkopf, conferred at the May 10 ceremony. has the three As," she continued, U.S. Army retired And to offer benediction to the "true awareness, attention to that general newly minted graduates was Sister awareness, and a 1 as a result of • Doctor of Laws, Jeanne O'Laughlin, president of Barry that awareness. Donald Francis University-, who challenged them in "The gift that yoi have is to won­ Shula, former der, to welcome, Miami Dolphins and to offer hope." head coach Eight dignitaries • Doctor of Music. receiv-ed honorary- Michael Tilson doctorates. They Thomas, artistic director of the • Doctor of New World Science. Michael S. Symphony- Brown and Joseph The sun-drenched L. Goldstein. morning also was the Nobel laureates time to celebrate • Doctor of William Butler's Humane Letters. ~0th birthday. Since William Henry his arrival at the Danforth, former University 31 years chancellor of ago. the gregarious Grand Marshal Eliseo Perez-Stable, deputy dean and pro­ Washington Vice President for fessor. School of Medicine, eames the ceremonial silver Mace. Student .Affairs has • Doctor of worked on behalf of : speech to translate Letters. David McCullough. Pulitzer some 92.000 students. 7bp: President Edward T Foote II and Provost their education into awareness and Prize-winning biographer The crowd of parents, students, Luis Glaser greet Norman Schwarzkopf (center), then into action. • Doctor of Humane Letters. Sister faculty, and staff joined together doctor of public service; Board of Trustees "Give to others the fruit of your Jeanne O'Laughlin. president of Barry in a chorus to wish him "Happy Chairman Leonard Miller congratulates Sister contemplation." said Sister Jeanne, a University Birthday." Jeanne O'Laughlin, commencement speaker.

\ERITAS LIMELIGHT Miami Herald (May 14) "You can't Biology professor is in the swim as Olympics judge study a diseased brain without having a normal brain for comparison." hances are you won't catch terms of the swimmers" technique or ence." Because South Florida is an epi­ —Deborah Mash, associate professor of more than an occasional expertise. It's like a weekend football center of swimming championships, he neurology, on how the brain of a 103-year- C glimpse of Charles Mallery- at game versus the Superbowl. It's the was eventually called upon to judge old woman, who has suffered few effects the Olympic swimming events on tele­ game. The world is watching." for those events as well. "They draw of aging, will contribute to neuroscience. vision this summer. But if you do. Listening to Mallery talk about his upon local officials, and so my skills watch out—it means an athlete may- athletic contests you w ould think he became recognized." he says. LHscover (May) "In the world of air have broken a rule. was a born swimmer with a distin­ Pretty soon he w as travelling the bags, a patient who looks good can The associate Dean of the College guished career. You couldn't be more globe, long after his daughters lost later turn out to have occult injuries. of .Arts and Sciences and Associate Pro­ wrong. interest in the sport. Now he serves as If the driver is wearing an automatic fessor of Biology w-ill be a technical "I've never been a swimmer myself. the vice president of operations of shoulder belt without a lap belt, he is judge at the Atlanta games, watching I'm not sports-minded. Not athletic." United States Swimming, w hich is at increased risk of liver injury." responsible for setting —Jeffrey Augenstein, professor of standards for the sport. surgery, on air bag injuries. His wife, physics depart­ ment staff coordinator Palm Beach Post (April 9) "Every­ Judy Kuehnell Mallery, body thinks the first Jews were condo never warmed to the commandos. But the Jews have been sport, though she's an here for hundreds of y-ears because of enthusiastic fan of the fre­ this first Caribbean wave." —Henry quent flyer miles he accu­ Green, professor of Judaic studies, on mulates on his travels, early Jewish settlers in Florida. which have taken the cou­ ple to Holland. Germany, Sun-Sentinel (May 6) "Its like being a Austria, and the Czech marathon runner. You've got to com­ Republic. mit to the long run."—Arthur Fournier, Though he's never associate dean for community health been a coach, Mallery affairs, on the effort to help reform Haiti's has come to know- many health-care system. of the University's swim­ mers—some of them The Boston Globe (April 4) "In fact, world-class. He influenced dust concentrations have probably the career of recent increased rather dramatically over the graduate Tamas Deutsch, last several decades because of w who will compete in the increased land use in a lot of these | backstroke event for semi-arid regions."—Joseph Prospero, 5 Hungary in this summer's professor of atmospheric chemistry, on Bound for the Olympics: Charles Mallery observes athletes lap the miles. Olympics. Invited to work dust from the Sahara blowing across the as an official following the South Atlantic. like a hawk at every There's no pool in his Kendall home. games, Deutsch apprenticed himself to to make sure they're doing the proper Though currently serving as head mas­ Mallery for six months to learn more Neusday (May 14) "There are a lot of stroke in proper form. If they mess ter at Pearson Residential College, he about that aspect of the sport, and he differences from company to company up—with just one w-rong stroke— doesn't swim at the UM pool either. In is now looking foward to a new- in the way the same plane is flown. they're out. Finis. No medal, no glory, fact, he's never gone for a dip at any career. And all those things influence safety." no score. Years of drilling and hours of of the world's great pools where he's "Charlie Mallery's one of the great —Earl Wiener, professor of management straining under the burning sun, travelled to judge. Never even been volunteers in the history of U.S. swim­ science, on cost savings and corporate thro wan away in one fateful instant. tempted. So what's he doing judging ming," says UM head swimming coach culture in the airline industry. Despite its seemingly draconian the sport? Sid Cassidy. "He's more than just an nature, the judging of swimming is much "I got into it because of my kids," official. He gets an award at our ban­ Sun-Sentinel (April 28) "We're trying more objective than judging in other he explains. When daughters Jennifer quet every year because he's part of to do everything possible to get our sports. In diving, gymnastics, or figure and Kimberly, now grown up, were in our swimming family." students good jobs. But in a market­ skating, for example, judges give scores elementary school, they began swim­ Cassidy, who will be coaching the place like Miami, where there are based partly on subjective considerations ming competitiv-ely at a private swim Brazilian team, plans to see Mallery at more graduates than there are jobs, we such as grace and form. Swimming, on club, and later went on to swim in the Olympics, too. Judges, who mostly encourage our students to look else­ the other hand, "pretty much comes high school for Killian's team before stand at the end of swimming lanes, where. If they have ties to this area, down to time," Mallery says. dropping out when they reached try- to stay away from the camera. "But we say, 'Break them.' This marketplace Nowadays, a swimmer's time is college. if you look." Cassidy says, "you'll can't absorb all the lawyers graduating measured by a tw-o-by-three-foot elec­ He began volunteering his time as a notice them." from the law schools." —Samuel C. tronic touchpad at the end of the lane. referee "to share in their life experi­ —Teresa Smith Thompson, Jr., dean of the School of At the Olympics, cameras also are Law, on law graduates facing fewer jobs. mounted over the finish lanes just in case the touchpads should fail ("They Tbe Neu- York Times (April 28) "This never do," Mallery- say-s). addresses concerns that we and others The judges, who are volunteers, have that by- doing the more compli­ aren't there to measure time. They're Tebeau cated transplants, the patients who are there to watch strokes, to make sure awaiting solitary grafts will be somebody doesn't throw a freestyle chairs deprived." —Andreas G. Tzakis, profes­ kick into their butterfly, for example. meet the sor of surgery, on "domino" transplants, in This rarely- happens in the major- which multiple transplant recipients can league swimming countries. But occa­ master potentially donate remaining healthy sionally swimmers from places where organs. the sport isn't practiced with as much Chariton W. Tebeau intensity- foul up. (center), the Reuters (May 12) "It's the first time in Even though he has officiated at the professor of history a lifetime of a lot of Dominicans that 1988 Olympics in Seoul, the 1994 emeritus who wrote neither Juan Bosch nor Joaquin Bala- World Championships in Rome, the the definitive version guer is on the ballot. Whoever wins, it 1995 Pan a\m Games in .Argentina, and of the University's is going to be a transition from the old a host of other top swimming competi­ first SO years, A patriarchs." —Max Castro, senior tions across the United States, he's Golden Anniversary research associate at the North-South pretty- wired about his trip to Atlanta. History, 1926-1976, is joined at a special luncheon in his honor by the professors Center, on watershed elections in the "Excited? I'm ecstatic." he says. But holding the chairs endowed in his name: Paul Finkleman, Chariton W. Tebeau Dominican Republic. when asked why. he has to think. visiting professor: and Robin S. Bachin. Chariton W. Tebeau assistant professor. -.Actually, there's no difference in

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July 23 Saving for Your Future (MO ACADEMIA July 25 Your Guide to Rendering Superior Service (CG) Continuing Education Ongoing UM Test Preparation Courses: SAT (Dade and Broward County loca­ tions). GRE, LSAT. GMAT. MCAT, and SPECIAL CUAST. UM employees and their dependents are entitled to a discount. For more information call Ellie Molack EVENTS at 529-3999 or a program specialist at 284-2727. Through July 6 "Common Ground: Ongoing The Computer and Telecom­ Christine Federighi and Her Students munication Institute offers hands-on Over 20 Years," a show of ceramic art training in a wide variety- of software celebrating the life's work of the Uni­ applications. For more information call versity of Miami professor of art and 284-4 . art history, South Florida Art Center's Clay-space. 1035 Lincoln Road. For Continuing Medical Education more information, please call 534-3339- July 10-13 Curso de Imagenotogia en Espanol. Please call 663-1628. Tbrougb July 26 Department of The­ July 13-14 The Art and Science of atre a\rts" Summer Theatre Academy-. Acupuncture. Please call 243-4751. training for students from first grade July 17-19 Intensive Geriatric Training: through high school. For more infor­ Part A—A Multidisciplinary Program, mation, please call 284-4474. Clyde Butcher's "Gaskin Bay" will be among his many landscapes on exhibit during presented by the Department of Psy­ the month-long Florida Artists Series beginning August 8 at the Lowe Art Museum. chiatry, the Miami a^rea Geriatric Edu­ Through August 9 Seacat Aqua cation Center and the Geriatric Sports Camp for children ages 6 to 13- games, held at the Whitten University Education, Research, and Clinical Cen­ Activities include swimming, spring­ Center and taught by certified instruc­ ARTS ter. Please call 243-6270. board diving, trampoline, and group tor-athletes. For more information, please call Mike Tober at 284-4713. Museums and Galleries Lowe Art Museum July 8-August 1 School of Music's 1301 Stanford Drive Preparatory Dance Program's creative 284-3603 mov-ement and music workshop for grades 1-5, and middle school dance Through July 28 fosiah Wedgwood: workshop for grades 6-8. Monday Experimental Potter and Contemporary through Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For Inuit Drawings and Sculpture. more information, please call 284-2521. August 8-September 8 University of Ongoing Seacat Aquatics. Private and Miami Faculty Exhibition and the first group swim lessons for children and annual Florida Artists Series, Clyde adults as well as competitive, diving, Butcher F and masters programs. Faculty and staff qualify for a discount. For more New GaUery information, please call Mike Tober at 1300 Campo Sano Drive 284-4713. 284-2542

Through July 9 Master of Fine Arts I July 12-July 23 Master of Fine Arts II August 2-August 26 Art by the Mentally 111 ^t£- Theater "Inuit and Birds" (above), one of the works on view from the show Jerry Herman Ring Theatre Contemporary Inuit Drawings and Sculpture, together with Josiah 1380 Miller Drive Wedgwood's pottery (right), share the bill at the Lowe Art Museum 284-3355 through July 28. Through July 7 "Summer Shorts," a festival of 12 Florida or world premiere July 21-26 Review Course for Certifi­ one-act plays by South Florida play­ cation in Internal Medicine. Please call wrights, produced by City Theatre. For 243-7540. more information, please call 446-9289. August lO-ll The Art and Science of Acupuncture. Please call 243-4~51. Bill Cosford Cinema Staff Development and Training Memorial Classroom Building. For more information, please call 2nd Floor 284-2351 (Coral Gables campus) or Coral Gables Campus 243-3093 (medical campus). Advance 284-4861 registration is required. Please call for current listings. Coral Gables (CG) sessions take place at Max Orovitz Training Room. 150"7 Lev-ante. Suite 129: medical cam­ pus (MC) sessions take place at the Dominion Parking Garage, 1051 N.W. l-i Street. Suite 155. "Calendar" lists University of July 2 How- to Develop a Professional Miami events geared toward Career Image (CG) faculty and staff members. July 9 How to Develop a Professional Mail relevant submissions six Career Image (MO weeks prior to publication to July 18 Your Guide to Rendering Calendar Editor, Veritas, Superior Service (MC ) 1540 Corniche Avenue, Coral BRIEFLY XOTED NEWS NOTES program, a member of the .Anne Bates of which he is a voting member, held in for a faculry fellowship award by the The Rotary Club, as part of the official Leach Eye Hospital Board of Governors, Philadelphia. Smithsonian Institution to help prepare col­ Miami Centennial celebration, recendy hon­ and the School of Medicine's credentialing lection development policy and lofig-range ored the University of Miami as one of the committee. Marion F. Jefferson associate professor plans for scientific associations the Smith­ as prominent pioneers. and associate chair. Department of Art and sonian Institution Archives. foreign and i Art History, presented the paper "Artist Stephen J. Dresnick. a University of al law librarian. School of Law-, was recent­ Guilds Within a University" at the recent Eric R. Carlson, associate professor of Miami School of Medicine alumnus and ly- appointed a voting member of the national convention of the National .Art surgery in the Division of Oral and Maxillo­ president and CEO of Sterling Healthcare Council of the International Penal and Pen­ Education Association in San Francisco. facial Surgery-, edited last fall's edition of Group, has pledged SI million toward the itentiary Foundation. the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics University of Miami School of Nursing Gary Kleiman. director of public affairs of North America entitled "The Comprehen­ Building Fund. Jill McWiHiams has joined the Department for the Diabetes Research Institute, recendy sive Management of Salivary Gland of Publications as production manager. participated in the Capitol Hill Summit Pathology." New- offices for internal medicine have McWittnms most recendy held production Conference on Diabetes, held in Washing­ opened at the University- of Miami Women's management positions with several publica­ ton. D.C. He participated in the panel dis­ The West Indies and Florida to 19O0: An Center. 8932 S.W. 97th Avenue. The offices tions in California. cussion "Reaching for the Cure." Annotated Carto-bibliography, written by accept a variety of insurance plans. For Olga Espejo. associate professor, Otto G. more information, please call 270-3485. Laura Shefler has joined the Department Roger M. Leblanc. chair. Department of Richter Library-, was recently published by of Publications as editor of the alumni Chemistry, recendy organized the 1996 the .American Library ^Association. publication Miami magazine. Previously, meeting of the southeast chemistry chair­ HONORS she served as associate editor of the persons, held in Miami. The conference The annual Vice President's Awards for University of Pittsburgh's alumni magazine. included the participation of chemistry DEATHS Service were presented to the following Susan May. formerly- Miami magazine department faculty Carl Snyder, associate Mordecai Y. T. Globus, internationally recog­ faculry and staff Robert Baskin. staff editor, has been named editorial director chair: and Curt Hare, associate professor; nized as an influential and innovative neuro- assistant. Department of Athletics; Mary of the department. as well as Robert Rubin, vice prov fi T scientist, died at the age of 48. The professor Coombs, professor, School of Law: and research and graduate studies. of neurology joined the University in 1985 Mitchell McMurry. director of Marketing Susan A. Teitel was recendy appointed the and devoted his career to advancing knowl­ for Neurosurgery, School of Medicine. Stu­ new- director of annual giving for the Peggy O'Hara. associate professor, epidemi­ edge of the cause of cerebral vascular disease dents honored were Karen Gardner, Office of Alumni Relations. She comes to ology and public health, recently presented and stroke. A memorial fund to create Joycelyn Lee, Cynthia Lasso, Cristina the Universiry of Miami from Syracuse the paper "Preventing Non-Gynecologic research fellowships in cerebral vascular dis­ Manaricua, Gisela Munoz, Tanvi Shah, University. Cancer in Women: The Impact of Smoking" ease has been established in his name in the and Caryn Vogel. at the conference "Women's Health: Preven­ Department of Neurology. For information, tion is the Best Medicine," held in Baton please contact Walter G. Bradley at 243-7516. Robert Ginsburg, Professor of Marine LOOK WHO'S TALKING Rouge, Louisiana. Geology and Geophysics, was awarded the Alice Ackermann. assistant professor, J. Wood, 84, head of the Universi­ GAC Medal by the Geological Association Graduate School of International Studies, Several faculty members of the School of ty's political science department from 1956 of Canada. The award is presented annual­ and currently a Fulbright Scholar at the Medicine recently participated in the con­ to 1970 and a noted political analy-st during ly to non-Canadians who make significant Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in ference entitled "Challenging Cases in Urol­ that time, has died. He was a key member contributions toward understanding the Munich, chaired and moderated a panel ogy," held in Bal Harbor. Mark S. of the commission that created the Metro- Earth's history. As a result of this award, and workshop on crisis management in Soloway, chair of the Department of Urol­ Dade government system and took part in Ginsburg will participate in a trans-Canada Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, last ogy, chaired the meeting, which was the revision of the Metro-Dade County lecture tour in the fall. April. Ackermann also gave a lecture on attended by urologists from around the charter in the early- 1970s. A scholarship conflict prevention in Europe at the Ninth world. Other faculry members who partici­ fund has been established in his name at The Sigma Xi Distinguished Scientist of the Winter Course of the International School pated from the School of Medicine were the School of Business Administration. Year Award was presented this year to of Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, Pasquale Benedetto, professor of medical Peter Glynn, professor. Division of Marine held in Trento, Italy. Ackermann participat­ oncology-; .Alfred Brandon, assistant pro­ Biology and Fisheries. Glynn's research ed in a workshop on transatlantic relations fessor of radiation oncology; and from the SUBMISSIONS focuses on the coral reef ecology of the organized by the College of Europe, held Department of Urology. Lawrence Hakim. Faculty and staff information should Eastern Pacific. in Brugge, Belgium, as well as the Ful­ assistant professor; and Raymond be sent to "Briefly Noted," Veritas, bright Convention held in Berlin, Germany. Leveillee. assistant professor. 1540 Corniche Avenue, Coral Gables Carol D. Holden, dean, School of campus, 4040. or by fax at 284-2532. Continuing Studies, received the Stanley- C. Murray Epstein, professor of medicine, Richard H. Williams professor of educa­ Robinson Distinguished Service Award for Division of Nephrology, presented medical tional and psychological studies, recendy 1995, presented by the National University- grand rounds on the topic "Hepatorenal presented three papers, co-authored with Continuing Education Association at its Syndrome, 1996" as a visiting professor at doctoral student Nydia Cummings, at the national conference in Boston. the University of Florida School of Medicine. annual convention of the Southern Society While there, he also presented a talk enti­ for Philosophy and Psy-chology-, held in George L. Irvin m, professor of surgery, tled "Calcium Antagonists: An Evolving Con- Nashville. They were: "Type I Error Proba­ VERITAS was recently honored by the Florida Chap­ troversy-1996," at the Hypertension Center bilities of Parametric and Nonparametric P.O. Box 248105 ter of the American College of Surgeons at Conference. Epstein was recendy appointed Tests Under Multiple Violation of .Assump­ Coral Gables, Florida 33124 as the representative of the National Kidney- their annual meeting in Palm Beach, where tions": "How Does Measurement Error Telephone: 305-284-5600 Foundation to the National High Blood Influence Statistical Power"; and "William Fax: 305-284-2532 he was presented with the Raymond H. Pressure Education Program. Epstein also Mexander Award for service. He was also aynderson McCall and the Chinese Educa­ recently edited the fourth edition of his tional Revolution of the 1920s." Williams elected vice president of the American Published monthly by the Office book. The Kidney in Liver Disease. and Cummings also published the article of University Communication in the Association of Endocrine Surgeons at its "Note on Reliability and Validity- of Change annual meeting in April, in Napa, California. Division of University Advancement, Edelle Field, adjunct assistant professor, Scores" in the April issue of Perceptual a>ui Copyright ©1996, University of Motor Skills. Robert Morgan, director of the Social Graduate Program in Physical Therapy, Miami. Work Division. Mailman Center for Child recently participated in the National Insti­ Development, was recendy elected social tutes of Health's NCMRR Trainee Confer­ A graduate student working with Roger M. Editor worker of the year for the Miami-Dade ence in Bethesda. Maryland. Her Leblanc. chair of the Department of Chem­ Leslie Sternlieb Chapter of the National Association of presentation was based on the article she istry. Shao Peng Wang, presented the Social Workers. Morgan also recently pre­ co-authored. "Bilateral Control of Hindlimb research paper "Surface and Optical Prop­ Scratching in the Spinal Turtles: Contralat­ erties of Poly-glyco-diacetylene Monolay­ sented a paper entitled "Utilization of Jun- eral Spinal Circuitry- Contributes to the Nor­ ers." judged "Best Paper" by the colloid gian .Archetypes with Children from Homes Editorial Director mal Ipsilateral Motor Pattern of Fictive and surface chemistry division at the aymer­ Susan May of Domestic Violence" at the Young Adult Rostral Scratching." published in the Jour­ ican Chemical Society's annual meeting in Institute Social Work Conference in New nal of Neuroscience last June. New Orleans. Director of Creative Services York City. P. David Johnson Sheah Rarback director of nutrition. Mail­ John T. Fitzgerald, associate professor of "Application of Flow- Visualization to the Executive Director of University man Center for Child Development, recent­ religious studies, delivered the keynote Development of an Innovative Boom Sys­ Communication ly was voted Greater Miami dietitian of the address at the annual congress of the New- tem." authored by Kau-Fui Vincent Wong. Jerry Lewis year by the Miami Dietetic / Testament Society of South .Africa, held in professor of mechanical engineering, and Executive Director of Media and April at the University- of Pretoria. South developed with graduate student Arthur External Relations Africa. Fitzgerald spoke on "Intertextualiry: Wolek. was presented this summer at the Conchita Ruiz-Topinka Renee Steele-Rosomofff. adjunct Hellenistic Moral Philosophy and Early- 19th Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program professor. Department of Neurological Christianity -." Fitzgerald also edited a new- Technical Seminar in Calgary. Canada. Vice President Surgery-, was presented with the distin­ volume of studies entided Friendship. Flat­ for University Advancement guished service award of the American tery, and Frankness of Speech: Studies on Roy J. Nirschel, Jr. Pain Society at its annual conference. Friendship in the Neu- Testament World. IN PRINT Contributors William E. Brown. Jr., head of archives Fariss Samarrai, Catherine Laurence B. Gardner, professor of medi­ and special collections. Otto G. Richter Pacheco, Doug Phillips, Chris Richard K. Parrish n. professor of oph­ cine and interim chair of the Department of Library, recendy co-edited the book Pro­ Dudley, Ana M. Rosado, Rebecca thalmology, has been named chairman of Medicine, delivered the "Nephrology- ceedings: Tbe 1994 Congressional Papers Morris Riordan. Cherie Rogers, the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, where he Update 1996" at the Cleveland Clinic. Gard­ Conference: Tbe Preservation. Lse. and Debra Stewart, Mitra Zehtab has been a faculty member since 1982. He ner also attended the annual meeting of Accessibility of tbe Personal Papers of Mem­ is also director of the residency training the National Board of Medical Examiners. bers of Congress. Brown was also selected

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