Interviews 841-850

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Family background; Growing up in the Depression; Education; Tufts; Penn; Dissertation research; Hiring by UW; Teaching; Creative writing; Research; Shakespeare Variorum; Sterling Hall bombing; Graduate students; Committee service; Rare Books Collection; Changes in the teaching of literature; Abolition of the writing requirement; Strengths of the department; Helen C. White; Graduate program requirements; University Library Committee; Friends of the Library; Departmental review committees; Chancellors; Faculty governance; Music; American Players Theater.

#842. HALZEN, Francis (1944 - )
Professor, Department of Physics
At UW: 1971-

Family background; Upbringing in Belgium; Education; University of Louvain; Research; Postdoc at Geneva; Hiring by UW; Teaching; Phenomenology Institute; Quantum chromodynamics; Cosmic-ray physics; Quarks and Leptons; IceCube project–genesis, personnel, funding.

#843. TEMPRANO, Juan Carlos (1943- )
Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
At UW: 1976-

Early years and education in Spain; University of Madrid; Travel; Political science at Creighton; Teaching Spanish; Graduate study in literature; Employment; Graduate study at Princeton; Recruitment by UW; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Teaching; Department administration; Department chair; Research; Students; Grade inflation.

NOTE: This interview is restricted until June 2, 2010, and may not be used without the expressed, written consent of Juan Carlos Temprano

#844. OSBORN, J. Marshall (1930 - )
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics
At UW:

Family background; Early education; Princeton University; Graduate study at Chicago; Interest in arts and literature; Dissertation; Hiring by UW; Math department; Department of mathematics; Tenure; Disorder on campus; Department chairmanship; Wisconsin Association of Scholars; Donna Shalala; Center for Equal Opportunity; Admissions policy; Political correctness; Committee on mathematical standards; Children; Associate chairmanship; Visit to Kuwait; Retirement; American Players Theatre; Review of Department of Theatre and Drama; Madison Opera; Madison Country Day School; Future of higher education.

#846. COE, Christopher (1951 - )
Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Harlow Primate Laboratory
At UW: 1985-

Interviewed: 2007	Length: 5 hours
Interviewer: Bob Lange	RESTRICTED

Family background; Education; City College of New York; Graduate study at Downstate Medical Center; Stanford Medical School; Research on the immune system; Recruitment to UW Primate Laboratory; Teaching; Students; Department of psychology; Directorship of Primate Lab; Utility of research; Concept of stress; Biology of ageing; Animal rights movement; Research on HIV and flu; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Culture of the department; Physical facilities; Graduate student instruction; Animal Care and Use Committee; Trends in the animal rights movement; the Health Emotions Research Institute; Other research centers and programs; UW administration; relationship of UW with state legislature and population; the UW student body; significant concerns about the UW administration and the future of the Harlow lab.

NOTE: This interview is restricted until 3/27/2012 and cannot be used without the expressed, written permission of Christopher Coe.

#847. TAYLOR, Jim (1935 - )
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
At UW: 1966-

Family background; Early education; Racial segregation; Vanderbilt; Graduate study at Georgia Tech and Illinois; Mass spectrometry; Teaching at Tulane; Hiring by UW; Research; Tenure; Teaching; Faculty governance; Era of student protest; Sterling Hall bombing; Danforth Fellowships; Chairmanship of the analytical division; Material science program; Synchrotron Radiation Center; Aladdin Storage Ring; IceCube; Interim Directory of Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute; Equity Review Committee; University Committee; Gender equity in tenure clock; ROTC; Athletics; Academic staff; Committee on Teaching Quality, Evaluation, and Awards; Teaching Academy; Student Assessment of Learning; Research proposal administration; Graduate students; Career of his wife, Carolyn; Future of UW-Madison

#848. BLUM, Rich (1929 - ) and Martha (1931 - )
Rich: Emeritus Professor, School of Music; Martha: Emeritus, Artist in Residence
At UW: 1959-1989 [dates for both]

Origin of the Pro Arte Quartet; Philanthropic support for the PAQ in the 1940s; Musical careers of the early PAQ members; Impact of World War II on the PAQ; Personnel of the PAQ through the 1950s and 1960s; Rudolph Kolish; The PAQ position in the UW School of Music; PAQ recordings and touring; Teaching activities of the PAQ members; Relations between the PAQ and the School of Music; The retirement of the Blums; The recent history of the quartet; Post-retirement activities.

#849. BECKER, Patricia (1932 - )
Helen Denne Schulte Professor Emerita of Nursing
At UW: 1980-2000

Childhood and education in India; undergraduate study at Oberlin College; degree in Nursing from Yale University; marriage, family, and life in Germany during the Korean War; graduate study at the University of Connecticut; research on infant sleep; hiring by UW School of Nursing; research and publication; teaching graduate students; campus committee service; national organizations; awards and honors; family life and recreation.

Childhood and early education in Beloit, Wisconsin; undergraduate study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; study of speech therapy; social services work in California and Washington DC; graduate studies at UW; Madison during the student protest era; hiring by UW Department of Communicative Disorders; changes in the department; hiring as Assistant Dean of Student Academic Affairs; programs to enhance diversity on campus; administrative challenges and departmental reorganization; service on campus committees; retirement activities; service as UW Ombuds.

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