Interviews 781-790
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#781. KNOX, James (1941- )
Evjue-Bascom Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
At UW: 1968-
| Interviewed: 2006 | Length: 7.5 hours | |
| Interviewer: Robert Lange | ||
Family background; Early education; College at Platteville; Views on Merger; Graduate study at Northern Illinois and Iowa; Dissertation; Hiring by UW; Teaching; Geography department; Geomorphology; Department chairmanship; Institute for Environmental Studies; Cluster hires; Climate change research; Graduate students; Faculty governance; Graduate School Research Committee; Geology and anthropology department reviews; Physical Sciences Divisional Committee; Views on university administration.
#782. KALIL, Katherine (- )
Professor, Department of Anatomy; Former Associate Vice Chancellor
At UW: 1973-
| Interviewed: 2006 Series: Women in Science and Engineering |
Length: 1.25 hours | |
| Interviewer: Sandy Pfahler | ||
Family background; Bryn Mawr; Graduate study in English; Neuroscience at MIT; Hiring by UW; Research; Teaching; Associate Vice Chancellorship; Cluster hiring initiative; Committee service; Climate for women on campus; Women in science; Children; Leisure.
#783. WOLFE, Barbara L. (1943- )
Professor of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Public Affairs; Director, LaFollette School of Public Affairs; Faculty Affiliate and Former Director, Institute for Research on Poverty
At UW: 1976-
| Interviewed: 2006 Series: Women in Science and Engineering |
Length: 1.25 hours | |
| Interviewer: Sandy Pfahler | ||
Family background; Early education; Cornell; Economic Growth Center; Graduate study in economics at Penn; Research; Institute for Research on Poverty; Department of Preventive Medicine; Research; Tenure process; Teaching; LaFollette School for Public Affairs; Athletic Board; Professional service activities; State government committees; Campus climate for women; Honors and awards; Family.
#784. BRENNAN, Patricia Flatley (- )
Lillian Moehlman-Bascom Professor of Nursing; Professor of Industrial Engineering
At UW: 1983-1986, 1996-
| Interviewed: 2006 Series: Women in Science and Engineering |
Length: 1.5 hours | |
| Interviewer: Sandy Pfahler | ||
Family background; Nursing education at Delaware; Psychiatric nursing; Computer technology; Academic nursing; Graduate study at UW; Case Western; Department of Industrial Engineering; School of Nursing; Teaching; Research; HeartCare1 and HeartCare2; Committee service; Campus climate for women; Professional organizations; Honors and awards; Family.
#785. KIESSLING, Laura (- )
Hilldale Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
At UW: 1991-
| Interviewed: 2006 Series: Women in Science and Engineering |
Length: 1.75 hours | |
| Interviewer: Sandy Pfahler | ||
Early years and education; MIT; Graduate study at Yale; Synthetic organic chemistry; Cal Tech postdoc; UW chemistry department; Biochemistry department; Tenure; Research; Field of chemical biology; Courses taught; Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program; Cluster hires; Keck Center for Chemical Genomics; Campus climate for women; American Chemical Society; MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; Family.
#786. CRAIG, Elizabeth (- )
Elizabeth Cavert Miller Professor, Steenbock Professor of Microbial Science; Chair, Department of Biochemistry
At UW: 1979-
| Interviewed: 2006 Series: Women in Science and Engineering |
Length: 1.25 hours | |
| Interviewer: Sandy Pfahler | ||
Early education; College; Graduate study at Washington University; Postdocs; UW department of physiological chemistry; Research; Teaching; Department chair; Biological Divisional Committee; Campus climate for women; National Academy of Sciences; Honors and awards; Family.
#787. CARTER, Hazel (1928- )
Professor Emerita, Department of African Languages and Literature
At UW: 1980-1995
| Interviewed: 2006 | Length: 6 hours | |
| Interviewer: Robert Lange | ||
Family background; Early education; England in the 1930s; Second World War; Grammar school; Head Girl; Girl Guides; College entrance examinations; Sorbonne; St. Hugh’s College, Oxford; School of Oriental and African Studies; Study of Shona in Southern Rhodesia; Zambia; Dissertation research; Teaching at SOAS; Hiring by UW; Students; New courses; Department chair; “Hausa crisis”; Internal review of the department; Research and publications; Lace knitting.
#788. HALL, Joan (1946-)
Editor-in-Chief, Dictionary of American Regional English
At UW: 1975-
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SIMON, David (1961-)
Director of Development, Dictionary of American Regional English
At UW: 1993-
| Interviewed: 2006 | Length: 5 hours | |
| Interviewer: Robert Lange | RESTICTED |
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Graduate school and research; Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE); Editorial staff; Funding; Field work; Editorial work; Production; Coding of text; Electronic edition; Culture of the project; Uses of DARE; UW-Madison Advisory Board for DARE; Self-study; Development and donors; Board of Visitors; Fund-raising; Electronic dictionary; Projections for Volume V.
NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL THE PUBLICATION OF VOLUME V OF THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH AND CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF JOAN HALL AND DAVID SIMON.
#789. SPEAR, Peter (1944- )
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology; Provost Emeritus; Former Associate Dean for the Social Sciences
At UW: 1976-1996, 2001-2005
| Interviewed: 2006 | Length: 3.5 hours | |
| Interviewer: Judith Craig | ||
Early education; College; Graduate study at Yale; Postdoc; Kansas State; UW psychology department; Teaching; Research; Proposals for a neuroscience department; Chairmanship of psychology department; Associate Dean for the Social Sciences; Deanship at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Provost; Retirement; Social issues.
#790. ZEDLER, Joy (194x - )
Professor of Botany; Aldo Leopold Chair in Restoration Ecology
At UW: 1998
| Interviewed: 2006 Series: Women in Science and Engineering |
Length: 1.5 hours | |
| Interviewer: Sandra Pfahler | ||
Early life and education in South Dakota; Undergraduate education at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD; Graduate studies at UW in Botany; Academic career at University of Missouri and San Diego State University; Sexism in the scientific community; her tenure process at SDSU; hiring by UW in 1998 for dual position in Botany and UW Arboretum; Wetlands restoration; funding and grants; collaborative research; climate for female scholars on UW campus; teaching and mentoring graduate students; professional organizations; honors and awards; personal life and recreational activities.
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