Frontiers Summer 1999
Class
Notes
Irwin Goldstein (Ph.D. '56) will
receive a Medical School Alumni Distinguished Service
Award from the University of Michigan October 2. The
award recognizes his scientific accomplishments and
his service as associate dean for research and graduate
studies and professor of biological chemistry during
his 35 years at the University of Michigan.
Richard McGee (B.S. '71) received
his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Iowa
in 1975 and is now the associate dean for student affairs
at the Mayo Graduate School in Rochester, Minn.
Kris Bettin (B.S. '73), former
president of the Biological Sciences Alumni Society,
is the student services coordinator in the University
of Minnesota's neuroscience department. She started
the job--her first non-research position--in April.
James M. Haynes (Ph.D. '78) will
receive the 1999 New York State Chancellor's Award for
Excellence in Teaching. A professor and coordinator
of the Center for Applied Aquatic Science and Aquaculture
of the State University of New York at Brockport, he
was nominated for this honor by two other faculty members
and a group of 30 undergraduate and graduate students.
Jeffrey Tate (B.S. '80, Ph.D. '85),
former associate director of CBS' Biological Process
Technology Institute, is now director of manufacturing
and regulatory affairs for Natural Biologics, LLC, of
Albert Lea, Minn.
Beau (B.S. '92) and Judy (B.S. '92)
Liddell had a baby girl, Jamie Lee, June 26.
Michael Martinez (Ph.D. '95)
spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow
in the endocrine research unit at the Mayo Clinic and
Foundation in Rochester, Minn. Now he is back at the
University as a research associate in the lab of Gary
Nelsestuen, with whom he worked as a grad student and
earlier as a participant in the first Life Sciences
Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (LSSURP). He
gave a talk to this year's LSSURP participants in July.
Mazen Abbas (B.S. '96) has been
accepted at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic
Medicine. He and his wife, Corrie, had a baby boy, Jad,
March 26.
Heidi Thorson (B.S. '98) will
attend the University of South Dakota School of Medicine
beginning fall 1999.
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