Class Notes

1952 Joseph Weinstock (PhD) (see ’75).

1965 Lynn Selke (PhD) (see ’61 College).

1967 John Webster (PhD) received a US patent for a new sleep apnea therapy device designed for greater comfort. Unlike continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines, John’s device uses no added pressure. He also received the 2019 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal “for excellence in classroom teaching as well as the production of numerous reference texts that have fostered the development of biomedical engineering as a discipline.” John is professor emeritus of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

1969 Gershen Kaufman (PhD) has published revised editions of two books he coauthored: Stick Up for Yourself! Every Kid’s Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem (Free Spirit) and A Teacher’s Guide to Stick Up for Yourself! An 11-Session Course in Self-Esteem and Assertiveness for Kids (Free Spirit). Greshen is a professor emeritus of psychology at Michigan State University.

1973 Robert Greenhouse (PhD), after a 33-year career in the pharmaceutical industry at Syntex/Roche, is serving on the Spark Advisory Board at Stanford University School of Medicine. He’s also an adjunct professor in the otolaryngology department, working with researchers to build a safer version of a commonly used class of antibiotic that can cause deafness. The Spark translational research program recruits industry experts whose real-world experience can be used to complement discoveries by Stanford scientists and students who are interested in drug discovery and development but lack the practical experience to develop them into products. The projects often focus on orphan diseases and diseases of underdeveloped countries.

1975 Jim Sorensen, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, was awarded a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health at the University of Calgary for the 2018–19 academic year. His project was titled “Linking Addiction Treatments and Research: Focus on Ethics.” He has been on the faculty at UCSF since 1978 as a research psychologist and then assistant, associate, and full professor; in 2012 he received the George Sarlo Prize for Excellence in Teaching. . . . Joseph (Josh) Stulberg (PhD) sends a photograph from a minireunion he and his wife, Midge, hosted in Sarasota, Florida. Pictured from left to right are Clyde (Louis) Putallaz ’69; Josh; Midge; Christine Thurber Ervin ’74N, ’76W (MA); Hanni Weinstock; and Joseph Weinstock ’52 (PhD).

1979 Jane Dubin (MS) (see ’78 College).

1983 Elinda Kornblith Kiss (PhD) was the 2019 recipient of the Allen J. Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence at the Robert H. Smith School of Business of the University of Maryland. She is an associate clinical professor and Banking Fellows faculty champion in the Department of Finance. Elinda is pictured with Dean Alex Triantis and Associate Dean Debra Shapiro.

1992 Louis Roper (PhD) was inducted into the State University of New York’s Distinguished Academy as a Distinguished Professor at a June ceremony in Albany, New York. Appointment to the Distinguished Faculty constitutes a promotion to SUNY’s highest academic rank and is conferred by the State University of New York Board of Trustees. Louis is a professor of history at SUNY New Paltz, which he joined in 1995.

1993 JeeLoo Liu (PhD) writes that she has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and will be able to devote two years to her proposed project, “Confucian Robotic Ethics,” which explores the possibility of implementing Confucian ethical codes into artificial moral agents (AMAs). The project “aims to promote ethical awareness among AI designers to construct artificial intelligence that will aid in human flourishing rather than posing foreseeable threats to human existence.” The author of Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), she is chair and professor of philosophy at California State University, Fullerton, and the executive director of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy for the 2017–22 term.

1997 Robyn Hannigan (PhD) is the new provost of Clarkson University, with its main campus located in Potsdam, New York. Her previous positions include program officer at the National Science Foundation, cofounder and chief science officer at GeoMed Analytical, and several faculty appointments, at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she was founding dean of the School for the Environment, and at Arkansas State University.

1998 Brock Clarke (PhD) had a short story, “One Goes Where One Is Needed,” published in the Spring issue of the print literary journal Ploughshares.

2004 Betsy Huang (PhD) has been named associate provost and dean of Clark University in Wooster, Massachusetts. She has been at Clark for 16 years, starting as an assistant professor of English. She was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 2010 and holds the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein Distinguished Professorship. She served as Clark’s first chief officer of diversity and inclusion from 2013 to 2016 and now serves as director of the Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies.