April 12, 1996: Volume 37, Number 1

For The Record

Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, will be one of four American scholars convening with British and German experts on medical ethics in Feiberg, Germany, this month as part of the Freiberg Project On Ethical Codes in Medicine 1947-1997. The Project has been organized by the Academie Fur Ethick In Der Medzin of Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiberg under the patronage of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, to celebrate the semicentennial of the Nuremberg Code of ethics of experimenting on humans (the Code formulated the basis on which sixteen Nazi Doctors were convicted of committing crimes against humanity; it became the basis on which the European Community, the U.S., the U.N. and the W.H.O. regulates experiments involving humans). The project scholars will produce a tri-lingual volume on the Nuremberg Code and its significance and will organize an international conference commemorating the Nuremberg Code to be held in Freiberg, October 1997. Baker will be exploring questions about the validity of moral standards across time and cultures.

Karen Williams, counselor for the Health Professions Programs and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, recently presented a paper, "An Antepartum Screening Questionnaire for Postpartum Depressive Symptoms (PPDS)" at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology. This research study also was cited in a recent edition of Medical Tribune.

Janet Anderson, Leslie Hull, Charles Scaife and Thomas Werner of Chemistry participated in a Project Kaleidoscope Workshop titled "Revitalizing Introductory Chemistry" recently at Columbia University. PKAL designated the department's innovative non-major chemistry courses as a "Program That Works." The faculty members gave two workshops on the four courses that constitute the non-majors component. They also served as consultants to other institutions planning changes in their majors and non-majors chemistry courses.

Sigrid Kellenter, Thomas Lamont Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature (German), has four new publications. She wrote the lead article in The German Studies Review on the fairytale poems of the German poet Geertje Suhr titled "Geertje Suhrs Maerchengedichte: Grimms Heldin meundig?" The article is a substantial revision and expansion of a paper delivered on this topic in Leipzig, Germany. Also, she has written complete biographies on the German exile writers Hans Sahl, Walter Sorell and Otto Zoff published in the edited volume Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933: Bibliographien USA."

Todd Burgman, assistant professor of finance, is to give a talk titled "Comparing the German and U.S. Corporate Governance Systems: Big Banks and Employee Co-Determination vs. Stockholders and Takeover Threats" at a conference hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany held this month in Washington. Also, he is to present a paper titled "The German Universal Banking System and Corporate Finance" at the Multinational Finance Society annual meeting in June.

George Gmelch, professor of anthropology, and Sharon Gmelch, director of Women's Studies, published an article titled "Barbados' Amerindian Past" in the winter issue of Anthropology Today. The article reviews what scholars have learned from archaeological excavations of Amerindian settlement sites. Barbados' Amerindian population disappeared shortly after the first European contact in the 1550s.

Thomas Werner, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Chemistry, gave a presentation titled "The Binding of Pyrene and Other Probes to CD Polymers" at the 8th International Cyclodextrin Symposium in Budapest, Hungary. The paper was the result of research with two senior research students - Jodie Iannacone and Mary Amoo - who were co-authors. Both students worked on this project last summer and during the academic year.

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