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5 faculty honored
by St. Louis science academy The Academy of Science of St. Louis will honor five Washington University faculty members at the academy's eighth annual Outstanding St. Louis Scientists Awards Dinner April 4 at the Sheraton City Center, 400 S. 14th St. The Washington University faculty being recognized are Carl M. Bender, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences; Jessie L. Ternberg, M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus of surgery in the School of Medicine; Jonathan S. Turner, Ph.D., the Sever Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science; Patty Jo Watson, Ph.D., the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor and professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences; and Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences. William S. Knowles, Ph.D., 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry and Monsanto retired distinguished science fellow, will be the featured speaker at the dinner.
"He is absolutely amazing in his ability to explain very complex and mathematical material in a crystal-clear manner," said G.S. Guralnik, Ph.D., of Brown University. "There is no one who approaches Carl in communication ability." Bender's topics include black holes, global warming and Star Wars. Reputed to be the world's leading expert in lower-dimensional quantum field theories, Bender has defined this area of research, in which he has made seminal contributions to all areas of particle theory. He co-authored Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory, which, according to J. Ely Shrauner, Ph.D., Washington University professor emeritus of physics, is "a classic book on mathematical physics that virtually every physicist, engineer and mathematician in the world has studied."
A nationally recognized pediatric surgeon, Ternberg was the first female surgical resident at Barnes Hospital, the first female surgeon on the medical school faculty and the first woman to be elected head of the medical school's faculty council. Ternberg joined the School of Medicine faculty in 1959 as an instructor of surgery. In 1971, she was appointed professor of surgery and associate professor of surgery in pediatrics. She became chief of ped-iatric surgery in 1972, and in 1975, she was named professor of surgery in pediatrics. She retired from the School of Medicine in 1996. Ternberg researched erythein and apoerythein and their relationship to pernicious anemia. Her research showed that intrinsic factor binds vitamin B-12 -- facilitating its assimilation instead of altering it to produce a more potent factor in the treatment of pernicious anemia. Her studies led to better treatments for life-threatening conditions that affect neonates and children.
A leader in advanced networking, Turner continues to guide technology at the core of the public Internet and make important contributions to theoretical computer science. He has been recognized worldwide for his design of high-performance networks. He has been a leader in advanced networking over the past two decades and continues to bring innovations to the technology behind the public Internet and the Internet of the future. In 1997, Turner and two faculty colleagues founded Growth Networks, a company later acquired by Cisco Systems, whose purpose was the production of highly scalable switching components for future generations of the Internet.
"Within archaeology there is often a distinction between 'dirt archaeologists' and 'theoretical thinkers,'" said Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. "Very few archaeologists are both, but Patty Jo has bridged this gap with ease." She developed a technique of flotation of archaeological remains to create a new method of retrieving delicate plant remains from sites studied. The plant evidence collected in this way has revolutionized our understanding of the pattern and timing of the domestication of plants in many parts of the world. Watson has conducted groundbreaking fieldwork on agricultural origins in two very different regions: the Middle East and the United States. She also is one of the world's leading experts on cave archaeology. Her work has focused on artifacts left by prehistoric people in the world's longest cave, the Mammoth Cave System, and along the Green River in Kentucky.
She identified nanoscale science as a major new thrust at the beginning of her career in 1993 at Washington University. Today, Wooley is recognized internationally for creative approaches toward the design, preparation, characterization and application of novel functional polymers and nanometer-scale materials, according to Joseph J.H. Ackerman, Ph.D., the William Greenleaf Eliot Professor and chair of the chemistry department. Applications for these nanomaterials should come in medicine and materials science. Calling this a "new chemistry, conceptually elegant," Ackerman said that in another area, Wooley is exploiting the ability to tune the composition and structure of materials at the nanometer scale for the creation of complex surfaces, nontoxic and biodegradable. These applications are of interest to the U.S. Navy for the prevention of marine biofouling. The April 4 dinner will benefit the Junior Academy of Science of St. Louis, a metrowide science organization for middle and high school students. Individual tickets are $125 per person. For more information, call 533-8083. |
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