On Campus - Faculty and Staff News
June 28, 2000 Vol. 53, No. 8
An article in the April 23 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle praised a study of judges and their judicial decisions conducted by Gregory Sisk, the Richard and Anita Calkins distinguished professor of law.
Nita Pandit, associate professor of pharmaceutics, and Maria Bohorquez, associate professor of chemistry, have published two papers in recent issues of the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Two Drake students also worked on the research for the first paper, which was titled "A Study of Temperature-Dependent Micellization of Pluronic F127." The students were Cody Koch, AS'00, and Troy Trygstad, a third-year student in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. Koch and Trygstad joined Scott Croy in collaborating with Pandit and Bohorquez on the second paper, which was titled "Effects of Salts on the Micellization, Clouding and Solubilization Behavior of Pluronic F127 Solutions." Croy received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Drake in 1999 and is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
C. Richard King, assistant professor of anthropology, is editor of a new book, Post-colonial America, published by the University of Illinois Press.
Joseph Schneider, professor of sociology, and Wang Laihua of the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences have recently published a book with Peter Lang Publishers titled Giving Care, Writing Self: A "New" Ethnography.
Thomas E. Baker, professor of law and director of the Constitutional Law Center, was praised in an opinion piece written by Katharine C. Lyall, president of the University of Wisconsin System, and published in the June 26 issue of the American Council on Education's newsletter, Higher Education and National Affairs. The piece focused on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth. Lyall stated that she was "particularly struck by an observation by Thomas Baker of the Center for Constitutional Law at Drake University." She then quoted Baker, who had said, "To this court, the marketplace of ideas is on the Internet and on university campuses."