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Alumni News
Steven Kirkhorn (B.S. in Zoology, 1973) is medical
director of the Marshfield Clinic National Farm
Medicine Center and National Children’s Center
for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety at
Marshfield, Wisconsin. His current research
involves assessing early-life farm exposure and
the development of childhood asthma, and the
role of the “ hygiene hypothesis” and asthma. He
is on the USDA’s Agricultural Air Quality Task
Force and a clinical faculty member of the
University of Minnesota and University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical Schools lecturing and
developing curriculum in rural occupational, environmental,
and agricultural medicine.
William E. Hobbs (B.S. in Genetics and Cell
Biology, 1993) is currently a fellow in hematology/
oncology at the University of Washington. He
received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of
Pittsburg’s molecular virology and microbiology
program. He completed his M.D. in 2002, going on
to an internal medicine residency at the University
of Washington, Seattle. After completing his clinical
duties, he plans to go back to the lab and start
an academic career.
Dan Liedl (B.S. in Genetics and Cell Biology, 1996)
is serving in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
Medical Troop, the largest deployable medical unit
in the U.S. Army located near Tall Afar, Iraq, west
of Mosul. He is commander for the medical troop
responsible for health care and treatment of
casualties for more than 5,200 regimental
soldiers, Coalition Forces, Iraqi Army soldiers,
Iraqi police, civilians, and detained persons.
Julie Constable (Ph.D. in Ecology,
2000) accepted a new position last March as wildlife ecologist
with the Endangered Species Recovery Program,
Central Valley, California.
Rebecca Marrs Eide (B.S. in Biochemistry, 2001)
has joined Protein Design Labs in the Quality
Assurance department.
Mary Schwans (B.S. in Biology, 2004) is account
manager for KFORCE Scientific Staffing. She
attended BIO 2005 in Philadelphia and currently
lives in Conshohocker, Pennsylvania.
Minali Gala (B.S. in Genetics and Cell Biology,
2005) is working at Protein Design Labs in
Brooklyn Park as a quality control analyst in the
lab’s QC Chemistry Department.
Melinda Hanson (B.S. in Biology, 2005) moved to
Santa Barbara after graduation and works at URS
Corporation. She also serves as an attached
medic at a U.S. Army rigging unit in Santa
Barbara.
Rebecca E. Long (B.S. in Genetics and Cell
Biology, 2005) has accepted a position with
Beckman Coulter in Chaska.
Class Notes Needed
If you have an update that you would like to share
with your classmates, send an e-mail to
john5091@umn.edu.
We’re also looking for stories from alumni who
have met their match while studying at the Itasca
Biological Station. We know you’re out there, so if
you’re willing to share your story,
e-mail john5091@umn.edu.
—CBS Alumni Relations
In memoriam
Ornithologist Dwain Warner dies at 88
Dwain Warner, a longtime faculty
member at the College of
Biological Sciences, died in St. Paul
on September 30. He was 88.
Born in Stanchfield, Minnesota,
Warner earned a B.S. degree in
botany at Carleton College and
Ph.D. in ornithology at Cornell
University. He came to the
University of Minneaota in 1947,
after serving in the South Pacific
during World War II. During nearly
40 years at the U, he was a professor
of ecology and behavior and curator of birds
at the Bell Museum of Natural History. He retired
in the mid 1980s.
Warner is remembered for his role in developing
radio telemetry for tracking animals at Cedar
Creek Natural History Area. Inspired by Soviet
scientists who monitored the behavior of a dog
launched into space in 1957, Warner recognized
that telemetry could be used to
study the movement of animals
through their environment.
Telemetry has since become a
standard used worldwide for tracking
animals. Warner is also known
for his research on seasonal migration
of birds.
Colleagues, friends, and students
remember Warner’s infectious
enthusiasm about ornithology. Bob
Zink, who is now curator of birds at
the Bell Museum, recalls how
Warner encouraged his interest in birds.
“Sharing his enthusiasm for ornithology was a
hallmark of his character,” Zink says.
Warner is survived by his wife, Marie Ward; sons
Bill, Richard, and David; daughters Betsy Hoppe
and Bonnie Alexander; 11 grandchildren; and 15
grandchildren. His first wife, Dorothy, died in
1965 and their son Robert died in 2003.
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