Dr. Martine Y.K. Armstrong
Dr. Martine Y.K. Armstrong, a senior scientist and lecturer in epidemiology, has served on the Yale faculty for nearly 30 years. She has focused much of her career as a microbiologist studying tumor viruses, particularly leukemia, which she has researched extensively using mouse models. The coauthor of more than 30 medical research papers, Dr. Armstrong has in recent years also investigated pneumocystis carinii, an illness which is a common cause of death in people with AIDS. Since 1985 she has been chair of the Yale Animal Care and Use Committee, devoting much of her time in that role to ensuring that the University adheres to federal regulations on the use of animals in research. She has also served since 1984 as a member of the Yale Biological Safety Advisory Committee. Born in Paris, Dr. Armstrong was educated in England and came to the United States in 1964 as a clinical fellow in hematology at Tufts-New England Medical Center. She joined the Yale School of Medicine as a lecturer and research associate in microbiology in 1968. She served as acting vice-chair of the department of epidemiology and public health 1993-95. Her honors include fellowship awards from the Leukemia Society, the National Leukemia Association and the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Robert M. Donaldson Jr.
Dr. Robert M. Donaldson Jr., the David Paige Smith Professor of Medicine (General), is a gastroenterologist who has held top administrative posts at the School of Medicine: as deputy dean 1987- 91 and as acting dean 1991-92. He also has served as vice chair and acting chair of the department of internal medicine. He conducted research on the role of certain bacteria in gastrointestinal function and in diseases that cause malabsorption, and he also conducted clinical studies related to peptic ulcer disease, chronic liver disease and physicians' use of diagnostic technology. A 1949 graduate of Yale College, he earned his medical degree from Boston University, and he taught there, at the Harvard Medical School and the University of Wisconsin before joining the Yale faculty in 1973. He was chief of the medical service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Haven 1973-82. Dr. Donaldson is a former editor of the journal Gastroenterology and is a past president of the American Gastroenterological Association. His honors include a Bohmfalk Prize for teaching from the medical school, the American Gastroenterological Association's Friedenwald Medal and an appointment as a VA Distinguished Physician by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Manuel Duran
Manuel Duran, an authority on the literature and poetry of the Spanish Golden Age and 20th-century literature, has taught at Yale for 37 years. He has authored or coauthored 40 books and more than 150 articles on Hispanic writers, poets and culture, including two major volumes on Cervantes, and books on Francisco de Quevedo, Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca. He is also a highly regarded poet; five volumes of his own work have been published. Born in Barcelona, Spain, he fled that country in 1939 and was educated at schools in Mexico and Paris before earning his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He joined the Yale faculty in 1960 after teaching at Smith College. Promoted as a full professor in 1964, he has held posts as chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, director of graduate studies and director of undergraduate studies. He has led a number of international symposia and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. He has received many honors throughout his career, including the Cross of the Order of Queen Isabella in Spain, which was given for his achievements and for his work promoting the dissemination of Spanish culture to the United States.
Dr. J. Bernard L. Gee
Dr. J. Bernard L. Gee is a specialist on diseases of the chest, whose research has focused on issues ranging from pulmonary mechanics during pregnancy to occupational lung disease and sleep apnea. He has authored or coauthored numerous articles and book chapters on these and other topics. A native of England, he was educated at St. John's College, Oxford University, and earned his medical degree at Guy's Hospital Medical School in London. He came to the United States in 1951 and taught at the Universities of Wisconsin and Pittsburgh before joining the Yale faculty in 1969 as an associate professor of medicine (with tenure). Early in his career, he helped develop a training and service program in clinical pulmonary disease at the medical school. He was named a professor in 1981. He has served for decades as director of the Winchester Chest Clinic and as director of the Occupational Lung Disease Clinic at Yale-New Haven Hospital. A member or fellow of numerous scientific organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Lung Association, Dr. Gee has been a consultant or adviser to labor unions, the Connecticut State Labor Department and industrial firms on asbestos toxicity and other issues.
C. Norman Gillis
C. Norman Gillis, professor of anesthesiology and pharmacology at the School of Medicine, attained emeritus status last Dec. 31. He had been a member of the faculty since 1961. Recognized nationally as a specialist in pulmonary vascular disease and for his pharmacological work, he has written more than 250 scientific articles. He has chaired major international symposia focusing on medical issues and served on a number of advisory committees, including the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Advisory Committee of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Primary Pulmonary Hypertension. A native of Scotland, Professor Gillis was educated there and taught in that country before coming to Yale as an assistant professor. He became a full professor in 1973. At Yale, he served as director of research in the anesthesiology department 1979-93. He was associate editor of the journal Biochemical Pharmacology and served on the editorial boards of several other journals in his field. Throughout his career, Professor Gillis has spoken at meetings and conferences in the United States and in other parts of the world. He currently is an adjunct professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
Rowan A. Greer
Rowan A. Greer is a professor of Anglican studies at the Divinity School and an Episcopal priest. His specialty has been patristics, the study of the church fathers, particularly the relation between the theological development of the early church and its social setting. His most recent research has been on the impact of the Diocletian persecution and the Constantinian Revolution on Christian theology. He has written seven books, including "The Captain of our Salvation: A Study in the Patristic Exegesis of Hebrews," "Early Biblical Interpretation" and "Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church." Professor Greer earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Yale in 1956 and 1965, respectively, and received a S.T.B. from the General Theological Seminary. Ordained in 1960, he was a curate at two Connecticut churches and was a chaplain in Scotland before he joined the Yale faculty in 1966 as an assistant professor of New Testament. He was named associate professor of New Testament in 1971, associate professor of Anglican studies in 1975 and professor of Anglican studies in 1981. In addition to his work at Yale, he has been an assisting priest at St. Thomas Church in New Haven.
Geoffrey H. Hartman
Geoffrey H. Hartman, Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature, is an authority on English and European literature since 1750 and on the history and theory of literary criticism. In the 1970s, he was one of a group of literary critics which became known internationally as the "Yale School"; the group originated the deconstructionist study of literature. His dozen books include studies of Wordsworth and a critique of the contemporary study of literature, as well as "The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust" and a book of poems titled "Akiba's Children." He was instrumental in the creation of the Judaic Studies Program at Yale; he also cofounded and has served since 1981 as faculty advisor of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Forced to leave his native Germany as a child during World War II, Professor Hartman was educated at Queens College, New York, and studied in France before earning a Ph.D. at Yale in 1953. He joined the faculty in 1955, then taught at three other universities 1962-67, when he returned to Yale as a full professor. He was named the Karl Young Professor of English and Comparative Literature in 1974, was appointed to a Mellon Term Chair in 1987 and became Sterling Professor in 1994. He is the recipient of many honors, including prestigious lectureships at universities around the world.
Dr. James F. Jekel
Dr. James F. Jekel, who has been on the faculty of the department of epidemiology and public health since 1967, has been the C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Public Health since 1982. During his three decades at Yale, he has studied a range of public health issues, specializing on teenage pregnancy and outcomes for teenage mothers and their babies, and cocaine abuse. His other areas of research include high fevers in infancy and intrauterine growth retardation. He has written many articles and authored or coauthored three books, "School-Age Mothers: Problems, Programs and Policy," "Crack: The Broken Promise" and "Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine." Dr. Jekel has held a number of administrative posts at Yale, including director of medical studies and acting head of the division of health services administration in the department of epidemiology and public health, director of the School of Medicine's Preventive Medicine Residency Program and assistant director of its Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program. Since 1986 he has been a member of the Connecticiut State Health Commissioner's Advisory Board. A member of a number of professional organizations, he was selected by Yale students to receive a Distinguished Teacher Award and was honored by the Connecticut Public Health Association with the C-E.A. Winslow Award, among other honors.
William Kessen
William Kessen is a noted child psychologist whose research has centered on the behavior of children in the first years of life. He is especially known for his research on how infants organize and make sense of the world before they are able to speak. He also has studied the emergence of professional psychology in the last years of the 19th century. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Mr. Kessen has authored or coauthored four books: "The language of psychology," "The Child," "Childhood in China" and "The rise and fall of development." He began his career at Yale as a postdoctoral fellow at the Child Study Center in 1952, the same year he earned his Ph.D. from the University. He was named to his current post as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology in 1976 and became a professor of pediatrics in 1978. He was chair of the department of psychology 1977-80 and served as acting secretary of the University during the fall of 1980. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other scholarly organizations, his honors include a DeVane Medal for Teaching and Scholarship from the University's Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
Dr. Luke M. Kitahata
Dr. Luke M. Kitahata, professor of anesthesiology and medical director of the Yale Pain Center at the School of Medicine, has done extensive research on pain and pain management, focusing particularly on spinal neuronal activity. He has authored or coauthored more than 90 articles and book chapters. A native of Japan, he earned his medical and doctorate degrees there before serving as a resident and intern at North Carolina Baptist Hospital. He chaired the surgery department at Japan Baptist Hospital before completing further residencies and internships in the United States. He joined the Yale faculty as an instructor in anesthesiology in 1964, when he also became an associate anesthesiologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He became director of the Yale Pain Center in 1968 and was promoted as a full professor in 1973. He was chair of the anesthesiology department 1973-82. Dr. Kitahata has served as a member of National Institutes of Health committees on neuroscience projects and is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Association of University Anesthetists, Sigma Xi, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Academy of Anesthesiology.
Vivien H. Lu
Vivien H. Lu, who attained emeritus status Jan. 1 of this year, was born in Peking (now Beijing), China, and has devoted her Yale career to teaching students the language and literature of her native country. Educated at St. John's University in Shanghai, Smith College and the University of Michigan, she came to Yale in 1972 as lector in Chinese in the department of East Asian languages and literatures. She assumed her most recent title, senior lector in Chinese, in 1977. She has made audiotapes for the series "Spoken Standard Chinese" and "Written Standard Chinese" and has also produced a number of workbooks and supplementary pattern books as part of those series. Her other publications include three volumes of an anthology of modern Chinese short stories. She has served as head of instruction in Chinese and Japanese for the Yale Summer School Language Institute, as a member of numerous University committees on language instruction and as a board member of both the Yale-China Association and Yale Summer Programs. In addition, as a fellow at Branford College, she has worked closely with students there and was an adviser to the Asian Students Volleyball Association. In 1983 she was presented an Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching by a lector at Yale.
Alexander M. Schenker
Professor Schenker, who was born in Crakow, Poland, first came to Yale in 1950 as a graduate student after completing his undergraduate studies in Paris and the Soviet Union. After earning his M.A. in 1950 and his Ph.D. in 1953, respectively, he immediately joined the faculty as an instructor in both Polish and Russian languages. In addition to his expertise in those languages, Professor Schenker is a specialist on Slavic linguistics. He has held the title of professor of Slavic linguistics and Slavic languages and literatures since 1967. His publications include "Polish Declension: A Descriptive Analysis" and the textbook "Beginning Polish," which he wrote in the early 1960s at the invitation of the U.S. Office of Education. The book is considered to be the first Polish language textbook in America that reflected contemporary knowledge of language teaching. Professor Schenker has held many administrative posts at the University, serving twice as chair of the department of Slavic languages and literatures and as chair of Russian and East European studies. Outside of Yale, he has served on the editorial boards of Slavic literary journals and has lectured at universities and in international conferences throughout the United States and in Europe.
Peter M. Schultheiss
Peter M. Schultheiss, a member of the Yale faculty since 1947, earned three degrees in the field of engineering from Yale: a B.E. in 1945, M. Eng. in 1948 and Ph.D. in 1952. His primary areas of interest in electrical engineering have been in systems theory, detection and estimation theory, processing data from sensor arrays and sonar signal processing. He focused his early research in Doppler navigation and later researched procedures for minimizing quantization noise in digital communication systems. During the past 25 years his work has centered on the use of sensor arrays to detect, locate and track sources radiating random signals or objects reflecting deterministic signals. Named a full professor in 1964, Mr. Schultheiss has held posts as chair of the Combined Sciences Program, acting chair of engineering and applied science, and chair (twice) of the department of electrical engineering. He has been director of undergraduate studies in applied mathematics since 1993 and has filled the same role in the department of electrical engineering since 1994. The author of more than 80 articles in his field, he also wrote the textbook "Introduction to the Design of Servomechanisms." Professor Schultheiss is a member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, which twice honored him for his contributions to the field.
George B. Seligman
George B. Seligman is a mathematician whose field of specialty is algebra, particularly Lie Theory. After earning his B.A. at the University of Rochester, he came to Yale for graduate work, earning his M.A. in 1951 and his Ph.D. in 1954. He joined the Yale faculty as an instructor the same year and was promoted as a full professor in 1965. In 1982, he was named the James E. English Professor of Mathematics. Early in his Yale career, he played an instrumental role in revising the mathematics curriculum to allow qualified freshmen and sophomores to enroll in advanced classes. He also advocated that math teachers foster imagination in their students, rather than forcing them to learn by memory. In the late 1950s he was invited to teach at the University of Muenster in Germany as the Fulbright Lecturer in Mathematics. He served as director of undergraduate studies in the math department 1970-72, chaired the department 1974-77 and was director of graduate studies 1991-92. In addition to numerous articles, his publications include the book "Modular Lie Algebras." He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America and Sigma Xi.
Oktay Sinanoglu
Oktay Sinanoglu is a specialist on theoretical chemistry who became well known early in his career for his Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules. More recently, he received attention for a research system, dubbed "Sinanoglu Made Simple," that he derived from his own mathematical theories. The method, considered revolutionary, enables chemists to predict the ways in which chemicals combine in the laboratory and to solve other complex problems in chemistry using simple pictures and periodic tables. When it was announced in 1988, Professor Sinanoglu said it was easy enough for even a 12-year-old to understand, adding, "The pictorial rules turn chemistry into a fun game..." Professor Sinanoglu came to the United States from Turkey for his post-secondary education, earning a B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the Yale faculty in 1960, and has since published many papers explaining his theories on chemistry. When he was named a professor in 1963 at the age of 28, he became the youngest person in the past century at Yale to attain status as a full professor.
Conrad Totman
Conrad Totman, a specialist on premodern Japanese history, particularly the country's environmental history, came to Yale in 1984 as a professor of history after teaching for many years at Northwestern University. Among his nine books are "Japan Before Perry: A Short History," "The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862- 1868," "The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan" and "Tokugawa Japan." He also has written scores of journal essays, book chapters, reviews and encyclopedia entries, which predominantly deal with aspects of Tokugawa history. One of his main interests has been in Japanese forests, forestry and its lumber industry. Professor Totman was educated at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and at Harvard University. At Yale, he served as chair of the Council on East Asian Studies 1985-88 and was acting chair of the history department 1989-90. His professional involvements have included serving as president of the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies and as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Forest History. Professor Totman's honors include the American Historical Association's John King Fairbank Prize for "The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu" and the Carstensen Prize of the Agricultural History Society for the best article in Agricultural History.
Piotr S. Wandycz
Piotr S. Wandycz is a noted authority on eastern and central European history. His many books include "France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919-1925," which won the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize; "The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936," which received the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; and "The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present," which was a History Book Club selection in 1992. Born in Poland, Professor Wandycz left the country in 1939 and was educated at the Université of Grenoble, Cambridge University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale in 1966 as an associate professor. He was promoted to a full professorship in 1968 and was named to his current post as the Bradford Durfee Professor in 1989. At Yale, he has served as director of graduate studies in Russian and East European studies and in history, chair of the Council on Russian and East European Studies and director of the Language and Area Center. A member of the Polish Academy of Sciences; his many other honors include the Commander's Cross of Polonia Restituta.
Robert G. Wheeler
Robert G. Wheeler, a member of the Yale faculty for 40 years, has focused his research on the behavior of electrons in lower- dimensional systems and other topics in physics related to microelectronics technology. In addition, he has contributed to an understanding of solid state physics and the phenomena of crystalline compounds. He joined the faculty in 1957, two years after he earned his Ph.D. from Yale, after teaching at Southern Methodist University in Texas and serving in the U.S. Air Force (he was stationed at the Aeronautical Research Laboratory at Wright Paterson Air Force Base in Ohio). He was named a full professor in 1966 and was the Becton Professor of Engineering and Applied Science 1971-74. Last year, he was appointed the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. Professor Wheeler has held numerous administrative posts, directing the division of the physical sciences and undergraduate studies in applied physics and chairing applied physics and the Yale College Course of Study Committee. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science and the Yale Science and Engineering Association, which awarded him its Meritorious Award in 1976.
Kenneth B. Wiberg
Kenneth B. Wiberg, the Eugene Higgins Professor
of Chemistry, is considered one of the nation's leading authorities on
physical organic chemistry. His research has focused on the
mechanism of chemical reactions and the relationship between
structure and relativity. He became well known early in his career
for the synthesis and study of small-ring compounds. He has divided his
time in the laboratory and the classroom with administrative service
at Yale and beyond, chairing the chemistry department 1968-71 and
chairing or working as a member of National Academy of Science and
National Science Foundation committees. He has authored hundreds
of articles in his field and has served on the editorial boards of half a
dozen major scientific journals on chemistry. Professor Wiberg joined
the Yale faculty in 1962 after teaching for 12 years at the University
of Washington. He was named the Whitehead Professor of Chemistry
in 1968 and to his current post in 1990. A member of the American
Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academy of Sciences,
his other honors include the Sloan Foundation and Guggenheim
fellowships, the Arthur C. Cope Award from the American Chemical
Society and the Pauling Medal.