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Meet the Faculty Week October 4-8, 1999  |
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Arts and Humanities • Sciences • Social Sciences • Professional Schools and Colleges
Note: Names are linked to the professor's personal or departmental home page, if available.
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Meet the Faculty Week October 4-8, 1999 |
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Arts and Humanities • Sciences • Social Sciences • Professional Schools and Colleges
Note: Names are linked to the professor's personal or departmental home page, if available.
Professor Karl Kasten
Art Practice
The talk will be about art. There were two shows of his paintings and prints in San Francisco this summer
Wednesday 11:00-12:00, 238 Kroeber Hall
Professor Leslie Threatte
Classics
At Berkeley since 1970, Professor Threatte is a student of Greece, ancient and modern. His areas of expertise include Greek language and Greek inscriptions.
Thursday 2:00-3:30, 83 Dwinelle Hall
Dean Ralph Hexter
Classics and Comparative Literature
Dean Hexter, currently Dean of Arts & Humanities, has one other hobby-horseback riding-he hasn't managed to smuggle into his study of Classics and Comparative Literature, but it's probably only a matter of time.
Wednesday 4:00-5:00, 261 Campbell Hall
Executive Vice Chancellor Carol Christ
English
Carol Christ, Professor of English and the Executive Vice Chancellor, teaches a freshman seminar each semester on a different topic-Victorian humor, literary animals, the second World War-which offers relief from the burdens of administration.
Wednesday 3:00-4:00, 200 California Hall
Professor Genaro Padilla
English
Professor Padilla has been a freshman (long ago) and raised two sons through the freshman experience -- so come on, let's talk.
Wednesday 4:00-5:00, 221 Wheeler
Professor Katherine Snyder
English
Professor Snyder likes to think that she is an expert on men; her recently published book is entitled Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925.
Wednesday 2:00-3:00, 412 Wheeler Hall
Professor Robert Tracy
English and Celtic Studies
Professor Tracy likes to talk, and is interested in successful and unsuccessful conversations in Chekhov's plays. He studies plays as vehicles to be performed rather than mere texts. He is probably a thwarted actor.
Monday 2:00-4:00, 337 Wheeler Hall
Professor Robert Holub
German
When Professor Holub is not contemplating the obscurities of German philosophers and intellectuals of the past two centuries, he prefers to talk about the Forty-Niners, the Warriors, the A's, or Cal's football and basketball teams.
Wednesday 12:00-1:00, 175 Dwinelle Hall
Professor Janet Broughton
Philosophy
Professor Broughton studies the history of philosophical skepticism -- or does she only dream that she does?
Wednesday 4:00-5:00, 106 Mulford Hall -- PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE!
Professor Daniel F. Melia
Rhetoric and Scandinavian
In addition to studying druids and ancient arts of persuasion, Professor Melia is the 1998 Jeopardy! champion.
Monday 10:00-11:00, 7415 Dwinelle Hall
Professor Milton Azevedo
Spanish and Portuguese
Professor Azevedo specializes in Hispanic linguistics and currently concentrates on issues of languages in contact, language variation and its representation in literary texts.
Wednesday 3:00-4:00, 229 Dwinelle Hall
Professor Brian A. Barsky
Computer Science
Professor Barsky is very visually-oriented; his research includes computer graphics, geometric modeling, vision science, and optometry. He has related interests in architecture and photography.
Wednesday 1:00-2:00, 606 Soda Hall
Professor David Wood
Environmental Science, Policy and Management - Insect Biology
Professor Wood's research focuses on bark beetles and pathogenic fungi that cause the death of pine trees. He enjoys field trips to the forests of California to discuss these organisms and issues affecting forest management.
Friday 9:00-10:00, 139 Mulford Hall
Professor Raymond Jeanloz
Geology and Geophysics
Raymond Jeanloz squeezes things with diamonds and zaps them with lasers in order to figure out what is happening at the center of the Earth (and other planets . . . ).
Wednesday, 3:00-4:00, 369 McCone Hall
Professor Nan Crystal Arens
Integrative Biology
Professor Arens studies fossil plants (sort of like Laura Dern's character from Jurassic Park), but her life is much more exciting.
Tuesday 11:00-12:00, 4110 Valley Life Sciences Building
Dr. Helen E. Diggs
Integrative Biology - Office of Laboratory Animal Care (OLAC)
Dr. Helen Diggs is a veterinarian who keeps the campus animals healthy. At home her menagerie includes a guinea pig, a dog, two cats, dozens of fish, two birds, two daughters and one husband.
Thursday 2:00-3:00, 5192 Valley Life Sciences Building
Professor Rodger Kram
Integrative Biology
Professor Kram, who studies how animals run and walk, enjoys locomoting (running, cycling, and backcountry skiing) in his spare time.
Tuesday 4:00-5:00, 4110 Valley Life Sciences Building
Professor Kevin Padian
Integrative Biology
You can meet Professor Padian in his lab, littered with bones and fossils, where he studies dinosaurs and their friends; he'll be glad to talk with you about Jurassic Park, but will be just as happy discussing baseball, music, and novels.
Wednesday 12:00-1:00, 5099 Valley Life Sciences Building
Professor John Rhodes
Math
Professor Rhodes is a friendly, non-standard professor, who has been doing research in automata theory (finite state machines) for over thirty-five years with applications to everything, from mathematics to life.
Wednesday 3:00-4:00, 891 Evans Hall
Professor Jim Fristrom
Molecular and Cell Biology
Professor Fristrom, who was formerly the undergraduate genetics advisor, is married to a cell biologist and has two non-clonal twenties-something sons.
Thursday 2:00-3:00, 2070 Valley Life Sciences Building
Dr. Maria Perillo-Isaac
Physics
Dr. Isaac is currently searching for dark matter, but she also likes to look at matter not so dark, like the bright stars in the sky.
Friday 1:00-2:30, 175 LeConte Hall
Professor Bernard Sadoulet
Physics
Professor Sadoulet is an experimental cosmologist looking for Dark Matter in the Universe. This challenging task does not prevent him from enjoying family and friends, travel and skiing.
Thursday 2:00-3:00, 375 LeConte Hall
Dean Richard Malkin
Plant and Microbial Biology
When not considering how plants photosynthesize, Professor Malkin teaches Biology 1A, acts as an Associate Dean of the College of Natural Resources, goes to concerts and operas and tries to grow orchids.
Thursday 5:30-7:30, 139 Mulford Hall
Professor Christine Hastorf
Anthropology
Professor Hastorf is an anthropological archaeologist working on the old world in Turkey and the new world in South America; she studies food, agriculture, and past social relations.
Monday and Wednesday 10:00-11:30, 2251 College, #215
Professor Stephen West
East Asian Languages
Professor West studies Chinese literature and theater, and has a life-long ambition to become a stand-up comedian.
Tuesday 12:00-2:00, 201 Wheeler Hall
Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl
History
Professor Berdahl, who is learning how the University of California, Berkeley has developed, is teaching a seminar on its history. In the rest of his time, he grapples with how Berkeley currently works.
Wednesday 3:00-4:00, Bancroft Library
Professor Diane Clemens
History
Professor Clemens is currently studying issues of World War II military history and diplomacy and has just come back from the Little Bighorn Battlefield and the trails of Lewis and Clark.
Tuesday 2:00-3:00, 144 Barrows Hall
Professor David Johnson
History
Professor Johnson, who has been at Berkeley since 1984, came to us from Columbia University, where he frequently taught a core-curriculum course on Chinese and Japanese great books.
Tuesday 10:30-12:00, 3229 Dwinelle Hall
Professor Robert Middlekauff
History
Besides teaching and doing research in early American history, Professor Middlekauff most enjoys bird watching and baseball.
Monday 2:00-4:00, 2311 Dwinelle Hall
Professor Carol Redmount
Near Eastern Studies
Professor Redmount lives with her geologist husband and a fluffy white dog and white cat. In her spare time (what little there is!), she enjoys reading mysteries and growing tomatoes.
Wednesday 2:00-3:00, 185 Barrows Hall
Dr. Lucy Canter Kihlstrom
Psychology - Institute of Personality and Social Research
Professor John F. Kihlstrom
Psychology
Dr. Lucy Canter Kihlstrom and Professor John Kihlstrom are married to each other and teach the occasional seminar together. They recently acquired a love of Brazilian music and have three cats: Ms. Eeeks, Paz and Guinevere.
Thursday 12:00-1:00, 5101 Tolman Hall
Professor Ann Kring
Psychology
Professor Kring loves animals, especially dogs (she has three), but her research on emotion is restricted to human emotion.
Tuesday 10:00-12:00, 3105 Tolman Hall
Professor Christina Maslach
Psychology
As an expert on stress and burnout, Professor Maslach knows how to keep life in balance-and for her, that means a big dose of theater, art and music.
Thursday 11:00-12:00, 2231 Tolman Hall
Professor Seth Roberts
Psychology
Professor Roberts watches about two hours of TV every morning as part of his research about what controls mood and the causes of depression.
Wednesday 11:00-12:00, 3112 Tolman Hall
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Professor Emeritus Roger Montgomery
Architecture
Professor Montgomery has been a dedicated art museum user since at least 1938, but he is still reaasonably clear headed.
Friday 2:00-4:00, University Art Museum conference room
Professor David Graves
Chemical Engineering
Professor Graves, who works on chemical engineering problems in semiconductor manufacturing, can't think of anything clever to write, but will be happy to talk about whatever might interest Freshman Seminar students!
Monday 8:00-9:00, 122 Latimer Hall
Professor Jeffrey Bokor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Professor Bokor's research interests are at the intersection of optics and electronics. His favorite recreation is at the intersection of the air and the sea (wind surfing).
Wednesday 10:00-11:00, 247 Cory Hall
Professor Emeritus John Myers
Haas School of Business
After Professor Myers learned all there was to know in economics, psychology, sociology, and forestry, he turned his attention to the study of consumer behavior and the raising of three new consumers: one in Molecular Biology at MIT, another in a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, and the third getting a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Washington University. Oh well!
Monday 2:00-3:00, 453 Haas School of Business Faculty Wing
Professor William Drummond
Journalism
Professor Drummond, who specializes in radio production, has a special interest in Native American issues.
Monday 10-11:00, 104 North Gate Hall
Professor Ronald Gronsky
Material Science and Mineral Engineering
Professor Gronsky uses electron microscopy to study the atomic structure of modern engineering materials, which might explain why he favors classic cars and vintage guitars.
Wednesday 2:00-4:00, 115 Davis Hall
Professor Kal Sastry
Material Science and Mineral Engineering
Professor Sastry, whose primary area of teaching and research is minerals processing and metallurgy, loves to talk to undergraduates and work with them in his spare time.
Wednesday 4:00-5:00, 458 Evans Hall and other times by appointment
Professor David M. Auslander
Mechanical Engineering
As Associate Dean for Student Affairs for the College of Engineering, Professor Auslander sees a wide variety of student academic and other issues.
Tuesday 3:00-5:00, 2109 Etcheverry Hall
Professor Tony M. Keaveny
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Keaveny does research on bones and implants and can't think of anything witty to say. . .
Monday 4:00-5:00, 3102 Etcheverry Hall
Professor Dennis K. Lieu
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Lieu received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Berkeley. After working six years in industry, he returned to Berkeley as a faculty member.
Tuesday 5:00-6:00, 2107 Etcheverry Hall
Professor Lisa Pruitt
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Lisa Pruitt's research is on biomaterials and medical polymers used to replace tissues in the body. Professor Pruitt enjoys scuba diving, bicycling, and equestrian sports.
Friday 4:00-5:00, 3102 Etcheverry Hall
Professor Jay M. Enoch
Optometry
Professor Enoch's research focuses on both the optics of retinal receptors, and vernier testing in the Developing World. He is happy to discuss this research, opportunities in optometry and eye care in general, and opportunities for service in the Developing World (e.g. eye centers in India/Nepal).
Tuesday 2:00-3:30, 394 Minor Hall
Professor Richard C. Van Sluyters
Optometry
Professor Van Sluyters is a third-generation optometrist, who teaches the anatomy of the visual system to University of California, Berkeley optometry students and serves as Faculty Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Research.
Wednesday 4:00-5:00, 100 Minor Hall
Professor Jane Mauldon
Public Policy
Having grown up in England and worked in Laos, Professor Mauldon indulges her curiosity about people through the study of demography.
Wednesday 10:00-12:00, 409 Davis Hall
