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Volume 4, #6The Scientist March 19, 1990 PEOPLE BRIEFS Date: March 19, 1990 James S. Langer has been appointed director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A specialist in condensed matter theory and statistical physics, Langer is a professor of physics at UC-Santa Barbara and has been a member of the school's staff since 1982. Langer has advanced scientific understanding of how melting and freezing processes produce intricate patterns in objects as diverse as snowflakes and metallic alloys. Langer earned his B.S. at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1955 and his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham in 1958. He previously taught physics at Carnegie-Mellon University. ITP was established in 1979 by the National Science Foundation for the purpose of contributing to the progress of theoretical physics. Joseph J. Tufariello has been named chairman of the department of chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo. A specialist in organic chemistry, he has studied the synthesis and reactivity of unique carbocyclic systems, the development of new methods in organic synthesis, and the use of nitrones in the synthesis of natural substances that could be used as antibiotics, tranquilizers, or other drugs. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Queens College in 1957 and his doctorate in organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in 1961. Tufariello has been a professor of chemistry at UB since 1980 and has been a faculty member there since 1963. He was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1981 and the Student Association Outstanding Teaching Award in 1982. He is serving his third term as chemistry chair. Physicist Jack Wilson, former assistant professor of physics at Sam Houston State University and executive officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers, has accepted a new position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., as director of the Lois J. and Harlan E. Anderson Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education. The center will be a national focus for encouragement of innovation in undergraduate education in all areas, with particular emphasis on science and engineering. Wilson received his A.B. from Thiel College in 1967, and his M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) from Kent State University. Peter C. Nowell has been appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Princeton, N.J.-based biopharm-aceutical company Cytogen Corp. A pioneer in the study of the cellular nature of cancer, Nowell is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and served as chairman of the department from 1967-73. He is also deputy director at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center and a consultant to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He received his A.B. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1948, and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1952. He is a member and past president of the American Society for Experimental Pathology. Bertram W. Maidment, Jr., and Charles F. Holt have been appointed to new directorships at Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, an independent, not-for-profit contract research institute dealing primarily with environmental and health issues. Maidment, who most recently was a biologist and vice president, operations, at LIM Laboratories, a Richmond, Va.-based biotechnology company, is now the director of MRI's Life Sciences Department, where the focus has been principally on toxicology studies. He also holds consulting positions with the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. He received his B.S. in biology from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., and his M.S. in natural sciences and a Ph.D. in experimental pathology from the State University of New York. Holt, formerly program director of the Indonesian Energy Institute, a branch of the Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit Battelle Memorial Institute, has become director of MRI's Engineering, Environmental, and Management Systems Department. Holt has served as a member of NAS' Foreign/U.S. Energy Conservation Project. He received his B.S. and M.S. in aeronautical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and his Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois. Barry A. Siegel, professor of radiology and director of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at Washington University's Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, has been named chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee for the Medical Uses of Isotopes. ACMUI, now in its 36th year, advises NRC on the development of standards and criteria for regulating and licensing uses of radionuclides in medical care and research. Siegel, who is the first nongovernmental appointee to serve as chairman, will help establish the mechanics of the meetings and organize the agenda for the issues to be discussed. He will be responsible for the activities of the committee and will serve as the principal interface between the committee and NRC. Siegel has previously served as chairman of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Radiopharmaceutical Drugs Advisory Committee. He is currently vice chairman of the American College of Radiology Commission on Nuclear Medicine and secretary of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. He earned his A.B. degree from Washington University and his M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine.

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