Interviews 771-780

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Family and early life in and near Hancock, Wisconsin; undergraduate career at University of Wisconsin; student work and scholarships; marriage and family; secretarial work for Alumni Association; political controversies surrounding Alumni Association; the student protest movement on UW campus in the 1960s; Rising through the Alumni Association organization to become Executive Director; Significant changes at the Alumni Association; Coordination of University external relations efforts; Diversity initiatives; Campus development; Relationship with the UW Foundation; The future of the Alumni Association.

Family; Early education; College; Texas A&M Veterinary School; Postdoc at UW; Research on tamarins and marmosets; Primate Research Center; Academic staff; Climate for women; Professional organizations; Family and leisure.

Childhood, family, and early life in the Milwaukee area; Public school education; Early influences and intellectual growth; Undergraduate career at UW; Academic and social life on campus in the 1960s; Work in Fritz Bach’s laboratory; The student anti-war protest movement and the Sterling Hall bombing; Graduate credits at UW and early success as a scientist; Training at Harvard Medical School; Wife and family; Ph.D. research at UW in genetics; Clinical rotations, internships and residency; Hiring by UW in 1980; Early cancer research; Fundraising and grants; Advances in cancer research and transplant techniques; Balancing research and clinical practice; Changes in the culture of science; Teaching and university committee work; Medical school and department administration; Ties to the state of Wisconsin and the UW.

Childhood in a missionary family in Brazil; early music training; high school years in Denver; training under Antonia Brico; undergraduate study at Princeton University; later teachers and training; travel and work in Europe; service in the Army; graduate school at the University of Colorado; freelance musical career in New York; working with Boris Goldovsky; teaching position at the University of Louisville; hiring by UW Department of Music; the Opera Workshop and performances; teaching and coaching opera; faculty in the School of Music; the Fox Valley Symphony; Gil Hemsley and other significant colleagues; teaching and university committee work; Students of the Department of Music; the Madison Opera; writing new operas; the status of music education and performance at UW.

Childhood and early life in Madison; the influence of her grandfather, Professor Olaf Hougen; childhood years in Washington DC, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles; high school at a racially integrated school in Los Angeles; the student activist culture of the 1960s; undergraduate study at the University of California- Santa Barbara; transfer to the University of Wisconsin; degree in History; Master’s Degree at University of West Virginia; Employment at the UW Foundation in 1975; religious activities; the Bascom Hill Society; modernizing Foundation record keeping systems; Foundation publications and communication activities; Women’s philanthropy; the Women’s Philanthropy Council; workshops and seminars on women’s philanthropy, books; Campus leadership; the Foundation board and leadership; substantial gifts to the UW by women.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2016 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF MARTHA TAYLOR.

#776. CODE, Art (1923- )
Emeritus Professor of Astronomy
At UW: 1950-1956; 1958-

Interviewed: 2006	Length: 8.5 hours
Interviewer: Robert Lange

Family background; Early education and scientific interests; University of Chicago; US Navy; Electronics; Yerkes Observatory; Thesis and dissertation research; University of Virginia; Photometry; Hiring by UW; Washburn Observatory; Teaching; Cal Tech; Research; Sputnik; Director of Washburn Observatory; UW Astronomy Department; Pine Bluff Observatory; Space program; Sterling Hall; Space Astronomy Laboratory; NASA; Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy; WIYN telescope; Hubble Space Telescope (HST); Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE); Graduate students; Future of astronomy; Astronomy Missions Board; Development of Hubble Space Telescope.

Family and childhood in New York and Israel; Love of reading and early education; Postwar Israeli culture; Military service; Undergraduate studies at Hebrew University; Teaching and writing; Master’s degree at University of Minnesota; Ph.D. at University of Wisconsin; Teaching and research; Return to Israel to teach; Appointment to faculty at UW Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies; Research agenda and teaching; Tenure; Experiences as department chairman; Committee service and UW administration; Professional organizations; Department course offerings and faculty; Intra-disciplinary research; The Center for Jewish Studies; Fundraising.

Childhood and early education in Madison, WI; Parents’ background and education; Travel and love of music; Undergraduate study at UW with double major in English and Music; Graduate studies at the University of Washington; Research; Teaching in Liberal Studies and English; Wisconsin Public Radio programs; Jane Austen; Service on campus committees; Teaching and service awards; Outreach programs and teaching non-traditional students; The UW Odyssey Project.

#779. COHEN, Charles (1948- )
Professor of History and Religious Studies; Director, Lubar Institute for Research in the Abrahamic Religions

At UW: 1984-

Family background; Education; McBurney School; Yale undergraduate; Graduate study at Berkeley; Poetry cooperative; Dissertation; Nevins Prize; Marriage; Hiring by UW; History department; Tenure; Teaching; Associate chairmanship; High School and Universities Liaison Committee; Summer Institute; Departmental restructuring; Identity as historian of religion; Courses on history of religion; Genesis of Religious Studies; Lubar Institute for Research in the Abrahamic Religions.

Family background; Early education and high school; Oberlin College; Graduate study at Columbia; Dissertation research; Teaching at UMass; University of Iowa; Hiring by UW; Courses; History department; Honors and awards; Professional society memberships; Religious Studies; Graduate students; Directorship of the Institute for Research in the Humanities; Registers of the Consistory of Geneva.

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