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Ping Wang’s love of the humanities is the driving force behind his research. Wang, PhD, the Seigle Family Professor in Arts & Sciences, explores social, political and cultural considerations that influence who wins and who loses in the global economic arena.

Most of us return from a business trip with receipts for coffee and perhaps a glass or two of wine. Doug Wiens, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, once came back with receipts for several hundred dollars of kava root.

He’s Canadian, he plays hockey, and he’s had a brush with Olympic glory. Physician-scientist Gregory D. Longmore, MD, investigates problems relevant to cancer onset and metastasis.

Regarded as one of the nation’s leading African historians, Jean Allman, PhD, shares her passion for the continent through her teaching, mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, prolific writing and worldwide scholarly presentations, and editorship of a book series that ensures other scholars’ writings about African history are published.

Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Thomas H. Tung, MD, skillfully moves tissues from other parts of the body to create form and function in cases of cancer or trauma in children and adults.

As an engineer, Anne Marie Knott, PhD, saw a need for research that could help firms make better research and development (R&D) decisions. Now Knott, associate professor of strategy at Olin Business School, studies how companies can improve their R&D effectiveness.

Of note Philip Cryer, M.D., the Irene E. and Michael M. Karl Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism in Medicine, will receive the American Diabetes Association’s Albert Renold Award at the association’s 70th Scientific Sessions June 25-29, 2010, in Orlando, Fla. … William Michael Dunne Jr., Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology, of medicine and of […]

Over the past 30 years, books in all their permutations have served as both subject and medium for Franklin “Buzz” Spector, dean of the College and Graduate School of Art. Spector rips, stacks, tears, sews, bends and otherwise alters both found and custom-made volumes. The process can result in an installation, a photograph, an individual object, an editioned artists’ book or even a collage of the torn-away pieces.  

Of note Eugene M. Oltz, Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Long-Range Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Igh Gene Assembly.” … Yoram Rudy, Ph.D., the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor and director of the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia […]

Mary Ann Dzuback, Ph.D., director and associate professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, associate professor of education and adjunct associate professor of history, all in Arts & Sciences, is a gifted teacher and visionary leader.