For the Record; Faculty And Staff Achievements

Barbara Boyer, professor of biology, presented a paper at the eighth International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria in Brisbane, Australia, in August, and an invited paper at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Albuquerque in December. She published three papers in 1996: "Differentiation of the body wall musculature in Macrostomum hystericinum marinum and Hoploplana inquilina as models for muscle development in lower Spiralia," co-authored with D. Reiter, P. Ladurner, G. Mair and R. Reiger, in Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology; "Modified spiral cleavage: the duet pattern and early blastomere fates in acoel turbellarian Neochildia fusca," in The Biological Bulletin, and "Dual Origins of mesoderm in a basal spiralian: Cell lineage analyses in the polyclad turbellarian Hoploplana inquilina" in Developmental Biology, the latter two co-authored with J. Henry and M. Martindale.

Joseph B. Board, Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Government, in December delivered an oral report to the Swedish Ministry of Finance on "Affirmative Action in America: Judicialization or Juridification?" Part of the study is to be published by the Administrative Political Commission of the Ministry. In January, he published on op-ed essay in Sydsvenska dagbladet, Malmö, Sweden, on the proposed extension of NATO to the Baltic area. With Swedish and Norwegian colleagues, he also has received a grant from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation to conduct research on Western constitutional democracy. He recently finished editing the English version of an official history of the Swedish Riksdag (Parliament) published by the Riksdag Printing House.

Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, is speaking this month on the adoption of the national medical code of ethics at a meeting of the American Medical Association in Philadelphia. "Ethics and American Medicine: History Change and Challenge" commemorates the 150th anniversary of the AMA and its 1847 Code of Ethics. Baker is to facilitate a panel on "The Code and Its Historical Context," and give a talk on "The First American Medical Ethics Revolution."

George Gmelch, professor of anthropology, recently published, with W. Zenner, "Urbanism and Urbanization" in Cross Cultural Research for Social Science (Simon and Schuster). The article examines anthropological understanding of these two processes. Four other articles – "Nomads in Cities," "Caught in the Middle," "Ritual in American Baseball," and "Lessons from the Field" have recently been reprinted in different anthologies in anthropology.