Academic Update
Richard Ball, assistant professor of economics, presented a paper entitled "Norms of Cooperation and Temptations to Defect in an Evolutionary Model of Economic Development" in July of 1998 at a conference at Oxford University. The conference was sponsored by the Economic Beliefs and Behavior Program of the British Economic and Social Research Council.
Julio de Paula, associate professor of chemistry, was one of nine nationwide recipients of the The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, given by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation in recognition of excellence in teaching and research in chemistry at undergraduate institutions. He also published two articles: "Depolarized Resonance Light Scattering by Porphyrin and Chlorophyll a Aggregates" in Biophysical Journal, 74:2098-2099, with J. Parkash, John Robblee '95, John Agnew '96, P. Collings, E. Gibbs and R.F. Pasternack; and "A Non-Conventional Approach to Supramolecular Formation Dynamics. The Kinetics of Assembly of DNA-Bound Porphyrins" in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 120: 5873-5878, with R.F. Pasternack, E.J. Gibbs, P.J. Collings, L.C. Turzo, and A. Terracina.
Robert Fairman, assistant professor of biology, recently published three articles: "Peptide Models of Local and Long Range Interactions in the Molten Globule State of Human a-lactalbumin" in the Journal of Molecular Biology, 28: 279, with Stephen J. Demarest and Daniel P. Raleigh; "Biochemical Characterization of WrbA, Founding Member of a New Class of Flavodoxin-like Proteins" in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, 273: 20960, with Rita Grandori, Judith A. Boice, and Jannette Carey; and "Regulation of SNARE Complex Assembly by an N-terminal Domain of the t-SNARE Sso1p" in Nature: Structural Biology, 5:79, with Karin Nicholson, Mary Munson, Rebecca B. Miller, Thomas J. Filip '98 and Frederick M. Hughson.
Jerry Gollub, the John and Barbara Bush Professor in the Natural Sciences, gave invited lectures about his research in nonlineaer physics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, New York University and at the University of Massachusetts. Recently published papers include "Superlattice Patterns in Surface Waves" (on wave patterns with novel symmetry) and "Time-Resolved Studies of Stick-Slip Friction in Sheared Granular Layers" (on friction in materials such as sand). The second of these is potentially of geophysical interest. It is coauthored with Antony Bak '99, a Haverford student, and Satoru Nasuno, a visitor from Japan. Another of his students, David Cooper '99, gave a paper about his research with Gollub (and Gollub's Postdoctoral Research Associate Wolfgang Losert) at a national meeting of the American Physical Society in November. In October, Gollub, chemistry professor Julio De Paula, and biology professor Phil Meneely spoke to the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association about plans for the new integrated natural science facility and the importance of interdisciplinary science at Haverford.
Vladimir Kontorovich, associate professor of economics, published The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insider's History with co-editor Michael Ellman.
Wendy Sternberg, assistant professor of psychology, published an article entitled "Competition Alters the Perception of Noxious Stimuli in Male and Female Athletes" in Pain, Vol. 76, pp. 231-238, with Deborah Bailin '97, R.H. Gracely and Masilo Grant '97. The paper described the work that was carried out by the two students as their senior thesis project in the psychology department using Haverford College athletes as subjects. This research is being extended this year by a group of current seniors as their thesis project.
Tom Tritton, president of the College, published an article entitled "Modulation of Methotrexate Resistance by Genistein in Murine Leukemia L1210 Cells" in Oncology Reports, 5: 419-421, with Y. Xuan, M.P. Hacker and A. Bhushan. He also published "Drug Resistance Results in Alterations in Expression of Immune Recognition Molecules and Failure to Express Fas (CD95)" in Immunology and Cell Biology, 76:350-356, with A. Bhushan, J.L. Kupperman, J.E. Stone, P.J. Kimberly, N.S. Calman, M.P. Hacker, R.B. Bridge and M.K. Newell.