Faculty News

Professor Ronald M.Green is serving on a half-time basis as director of the office of genome ethics at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Human Genome Research. He provides ethical guidance for researchers in the Human Genome Project. At Dartmouth he is the John Phillips Professor of Religion, director of Dartmouth's Ethics Institute, and a member of the department of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.

Associate Dean and Professor of Physics John Walsh gave the keynote address at the 21st International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves in Berlin early this past summer.

Professor of Religion NancyFrankenberry won a $10,000 award from the John Templeton Foundation of Pennsylvania for a course on "Science and Religion." Examining the relationship between science and religion today, the course will cover such topics as the Big Bang and religious ideas in creation.

The physics department held a reception to honor Professor of Physics Emeritus Allen King's contribution to maintaining Dartmouth's collection of historical scientific apparatuses. The oldest instrument is a 1773 sundial that President Eleazar Wheelock had in his yard. Much of the collection is on permanent display in Fairchild.

Laurie Snell, professor emeritus of mathematics, has spent the last five years developing a new quantitative literacy course called "Chance." Offered this fall, it provides a statistical perspective on current events—including DNA, fingerprinting, political polls, falling sperm counts, and medical trials. Snell also writes a tri-weekly electronic newsletter featuring such matters. Check out his Chance web page: .

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Contributors:Sheila Culbert, BonnieCheung '98, Rid U,w>.and the DAM Staff.