MEETING THE PRINCESS—During a recent trip to the Orient, Dr.
Ewald W. Busse (right) and Ort Busse were presented to His Imperial
Highness Prince and Princess Hitachi of Japan. Shown here with the
princess, the Busses attended the 11th International Congress of
Gerontology in Tokyo. Busse is chairman of the North American
Delegation to the congress and Dr. George L. Maddox, director of the
Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, is secretary.
While in the Orient, the Busses visited with a number of Duke medical
alumni in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Wakeman Award winners internationally known
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Born in Germany in 1900, Hamburger
earned a Ph.D. in zoology there in 1925.
He joined the Washington University
faculty in 1935 and was chairman of its
Department of Zoology from 1941-46.
Weiss was born in 1898 in Vienna and
earned his Ph.D. in biology at the
University of Vienna in 1922. He was a
professor of zoology at the University of
Chicago from 1933-54.
A professor emeritus of Rockefeller
MARATHON MAN—Dr. William C. Hall, associate professor of anatomy won last Sunday's
Durham First Marathon. Completing the 26.2 mile-(42 kilometer-) run in two hours, 31 minutes
and 30 seconds. Hall finished nearly 10 minutes ahead of his nearest challenger. (Photo by lim Sparks,
Herald-Sun Papers)
MYOB
"Tact" might well be defined as "the
ability to tell someone to 'mind your own
business' and make him or her feel glad to
do so."
The tactful Michael Green is returning
to Duke Nov. 7-9 to lead "Mind (Manage)
Your Own Business," a three-day
workshop for hospital supervisors and
managers.
Green is an industrial services specialist
for the North Carolina Department of
Community Colleges. His MYOB
workshop has been well received by
industrial firms in a number of states.
"He presented the MYOB workshop to
a Duke audience and the workshop was so
successful that he is back by popular
demand," according to Dr. Ann Britt,
director of human resource development.
Also being brought back "by popular
demand" is Tom Parker, president of
Tepee Associates, a management
consultant firm in North Wilkesboro.
Parker will conduct two workshops on
"Steps to Effective Supervision,"
beginning Oct. 23.
Both workshops are sponsored by the
Department of Human Resource
Development and will be held at the
Croasdaile Education Center.
For more information about either
program, call 684-6372.
University, he served from 1954-64 as
head of the Laboratory of Developmental
Biology at the Rockefeller Institute and
from 1964-66 as dean of the University of
Texas Graduate School of Biomedical
Sciences in Houston.
Today's understanding of the inner
workings of the nerve cell body are
attributed to principles first advanced by
Weiss nearly 35 years ago.
His work centered on the transport of
materials provided by the nerve cell body
— materials required to maintain the cell
and to replace portions of nerve branches
amputated by injury or disease, and
properties involved in communication
within and between nerve cells.
Weiss' experimental and theoretical
works, the Wakeman Award panel noted,
"have continued to serve in focusing and
stimulating the efforts of many scientists
in their attempts to understand how the
nerve cell f jnctions and how it reacts to
injury."
Appel panel chairman
The presentation at the dinner was
made by the awards panel chairman. Dr.
Stanley Appel, chairman of the
Department of Neurology at Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston, formerly
a faculty member here.
Other members of the awards panel
were Dr. Mary A. B. Brazier, Department
of Anatomy, University of California at
Los Angeles; Dr. W. Maxwell Cowan,
Department of Anatomy and
Neurobiology, Washington University;
Dr. Irving T. Diamond, a professor of
psychology in the Department of
Physiology here; Dr. Edward V. Evarts,
National Institute of Mental Health; Dr.
Murray Goldstein, National Institute of
Neurological and Communicative
Disorders and Stroke; Dr. Bernice
Graftstein, Cornell University; Dr.
Frederick W. L. Kerr, Department of
Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic; Dr. Thomas
W. Langfitt, University of Pennsylvania;
and Dr. Guy M. McKhann, Johns
Hopkins University.
In addition to Levi-Montalcini and
Cohen in 1974, other previous winners of
the Wakeman Award are Dr. Roger W.
Sperry of the California Institute of
Technology and Dr. William F. Windle of
Denison University, who shared it in
1972, and Dr. Stephen W. Kuffler of
Harvard, the 1976 recipient.
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The Medical Center Calendar lists lectures, symposia and other activities of interest to faculty, staff and
students. Notices should be sent to Box 3354 no later than one week prior to publication. If last minute
scheduling makes it impossible to send a written notice in time, please call 684-4148.
Friday, Oct. 6
12:30 p.m.
1 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 9
12 noon
Biochemistry Seminar. Dr. William Dowhan, Dept, of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, Univ. of Texas Medical School, Houston, "The
Structure and Function of Enzymes Involved in Membrane Biogenesis,"
Rm 147, Nanaline H. Duke Bldg. Coffee at 12:15 in the lobby.
Network for Continuing Medical Education (NCME). Programs on "The
Mental Status Exam," "The Clinical Evaluation of Selected Shoulder
Syndromes" and "Guillain-Barre Syndrome." View in Rm M406 at Duke
and Rms D3008, C6002 and C7002 and Bldg 16 at the VA Hospital.
(Previous NCME programs have been catalogued in the Medical Center
Library and are available for viewing there.)
Pathology Research Conference. Dr. John Bittikofer, associate'professor
of biochemistry and director of clinical chemistry labs, "High Pressure
Liquid Chromatography," Rm M204.
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Wednesday, Oct. 11
1 p.m.
NCME. See Fri., Oct. 6, for programs and viewing areas.