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1950s
Clifford C. Roan
(BS ’47, MS ’47, PhD Entomology ’50) resides in Manhattan, KS. He
was chief of the Pesticide Monitoring Branch of the U.S. Army
Environmental Hygiene Agency, and also was senior consultant for Hopes
Consulting. During Roan’s career, he worked as director of the Arizona
Community Studies Pesticide Project, as director of Geigy Australasia Pty,
Ltd., and as professor of Entomology at Kansas State University. He has
also served as consultant to a number of companies and international
agencies. His research specialty was pesticides and physiology of the
Oriental fruit fly and related species.
William C. Marquardt
(MS ’50, PhD Zoology ’54) is professor emeritus at Colorado State
University, Fort Collins. Since graduating from UIUC, he has been a
faculty member at Montana State University, Bozeman (1954-61), DePaul
University, Chicago, (1961-62), UIUC (1962-66), and Colorado State
University (1966-92). "I was a student of the renowned protozoologist,
Richard R. Kudo (deceased 1966), but was also greatly influenced by Norman
D. Levine (deceased 1999), College of Veterinary Medicine (UIUC), with
whom I was associated as a student and later as a fellow faculty
member." Marquardt trained 15 masters and 15 doctoral students, some
of whom gained prominence in parasitology, and authored or co-authored
more than 80 scientific papers and 6 books. His primary research area was
coccidia (Apicomplexa). Since retiring, he has been involved in writing
and editing several books. [back to top]
1960s
June
(Trottier) Arnold (MST Biology ’68) became the health
professions coordinator for Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, in 1999. She had
taught in their biology department since the 1970s.
John W. Krebs
(BS Biology ’69, MS Zoology ’73) is a public health scientist in the
Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. From 1978-81 he worked on Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever in Sierra
Leone, West Africa; in 1987-88 on HIV/AIDS in Guinea, Ivory Coast,
Burksina Faso, and Brazil; in 1993 on the Four Corners Hantavirus
outbreak; and in 1995 on the Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever outbreak in Zaire.
Krebs received a Health and Human Services Special Act/Service Award and
the Secretary of HHS Recognition Award in 1994; in 1996 the HHS Secretary’s
Award for Distinguished Service; and in 1997 the Public Health Service
Outstanding Unit Citation.
Robert S. Weinstein,
MD (BS Biology ’67) is professor of Medicine and director of the Bone
Morphometry Lab at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little
Rock. His research includes osteocyte survival and osteoporosis. [back to top]
1970s
Brian J. Bielema (BS
Zoology ’71) is shift supervisor of Nuclear Security, Wackenhut Corp. He
is currently working on the natural history of the timber rattlesnake (a
threatened species) and the status of the Eastern Massasauga (an
endangered species) at an Illinois state nature preserve.
Rex Dunham,
PhD (BS EEE ’78) is professor and director of Fish Genetics and Genetic
Engineering at Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Dunham was the first to
transfer genes into fish in the US and his research has been recognized in
the Congressional Record and featured in Science. He has
been involved with four releases of genetically improved catfish for the
aquaculture industry and has conducted the first outdoor research on
environmental risks of transgenic fish. He served from 1997-99 as the
program leader and senior scientist for the International Center for
Living Aquatic Resource Management and is chair for Aquaculture Genetics,
Conference for Aquaculture in the Third Millennium.
Suzanne Fisher (PhD
Biology ’78) is director of the Division of Receipt and Referral, Center
for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health.
Stephen R. Ortman
(BS Biology ’74) left Motorola, Inc. in 1999, after 10 years as a senior
buyer, to pursue a writing career. He is working to find a publisher for 4
books of poetry, 3 short stories, and 4 children’s Christmas stories. In
addition, he is working on a children’s book and a book of short stories
about his early life on a farm in central Illinois. Ortman married Lisa
Kerpoe in September 2000. His oldest daughter recently graduated from UIUC
with her teaching degree in Math and Spanish, and his youngest daughter
transferred to UIUC this year and is majoring in engineering. [back to top]
1980s
Barbara A. Devine,
MBA (BS Microbiology ’87) is a sales representative for American
International Chemical, Inc., Midwest Region. The company, headquartered
in Boston, MA, is a sales and marketing organization that distributes
specialty chemicals to the pharmaceutical industry. She had previously
worked 12 years for Abbott Laboratories.
Estelle S. Fletcher,
MD, PhD (BS Physiology and Psychology ’81) is assistant director of the
Family Practice Residency Program, Family Physicians of Naperville (IL),
sponsored by Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center.
Nancy J. Bender Hausman,
MD (BS Honors Biology ’88) is a physician specializing in neurology and
sleep medicine at the Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI. She married Fred
Hausman in 1997.
Helen Lo,
DDS (BS Biology ’87) opened her dental office in Woodridge, IL, in 1999.
She received her DDS from the University of Illinois College of Dentistry
in 1991.
Kristine Lowe
(BS EEE ’89) received her PhD degree from Georgia Tech in 1999. She has
taken at post-doctoral position at the Naval Research Lab in Washington,
DC.
Mark Revenaugh,
DVM (BS Biology ’85) is working with the US Equestrian Team as the
official USET veterinarian. He has traveled with the team to Italy,
Sweden, England, Ger-many, Mexico, and Canada. He is a horse veterinary
practitioner in northern New Jersey. [back to top]
1990s
Rudaina H. Alrefai
(PhD Biology ’93) is consumer safety officer for the Food and Drug
Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Washington,
DC. From 1996-1998, she was awarded an intramural research fellowship at
the National Institute on Aging.
Jason A. Cohan (BS
Biology ’97) is an analytical quality assurance lab technician at Abbott
Laboratories. He says, "There are a lot of good opportunities at
Abbott Laboratories for UI life sciences graduates."
Heather (Reichert)
Hodge, JD (BS Biology Honors ’90) is a patent attorney for Motorola.
Husband David is the Chicago Wilderness Land Steward for The Nature
Conservancy. They welcomed their first child, Megan Elizabeth, in May
1999.
Natalia Izquierdo-Schlipman
(BS Biology ’95) is a pharmaceutical sales representative, US Opthalmics/Primary
Care, CIBA Vision, a division of Novartis. She married Joseph Schlipman,
who is a financial analyst with Ameritech, in May 1999. They make their
home in the downtown (Gold Coast) area of Chicago.
Jody Y. Lin,
MD (BS Biology ’91) finished his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology
at Washington University at St. Louis in July 1999. He is in private
practice in OB/Gyn and on staff at La Grange Memorial.
Marc A. Mickiewicz,
MD (BS Biology Honors ’95) is a resident physician in Emergency Medicine
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
David G. Nekoukar (MS
Plant Biology ’95) is a senior assistant biologist at E.I. DuPont
deNemours and Company, Newark, DE. He is working in the agricultural
biotechnology department on modifying starch synthesis in maize using
genetic approaches.
 Ilana
Strubel, DVM (BS EEE ’90), in
addition to practicing veterinary medicine in Pacifica, CA, is active in
PAWS— Pets are Wonderful Support—in San Francisco. PAWS
is a volunteer, non-profit group that
helps improve the quality of life for low-income pet owners with HIV
disease. The group provides comprehensive services to enable clients to
keep their companion animals. Services include an animal food bank,
subsidized veterinary care, dog walking, litter box maintenance, grooming,
and foster care and adoption when necessary.
PAWS plays an important role in educating the medical
and veterinary communities about benefits and risks of animal
companionship for immuno-compromised individuals.
San Francisco PAWS
provides comprehensive care for about 300 individuals and their 500 pets.
Strubel served as PAWS’ president in 1998 and 1999, and remains on its
Board of Directors.
Strubel
recently chaired PAWS’ international summit on The Healing Power of
the Human-Animal Bond: Lessons Learned from the Aids Epidemic. This
conference brought veterinarians, medical doctors, social workers, nurses,
shelter representatives, animal-assisted therapy professionals, mental
health professionals, recreational therapists, allied health
professionals, and students together to discuss the role of animal
companions in society and to promote the evolution of new and improved
human-animal support services through the Bay Area and beyond.
Strubel is also
involved with the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, which is working to find homes for 100% of the city’s adoptable
dogs and cats.
Sam Volchenboum,
MD (BS Biochemistry and Biology Honors ’91) is a pediatric resident at
the Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH. In July 2001, he
will become a fellow in pediatric hematology/oncology at Boston Children’s
Hospital. He and wife Julie have two children.
Bradford Lee West
(BS Biology Honors ’98) is in medical school at the University of
Illinois, Chicago. He says, "The University of Illinois put me in the
top 15% of the entering class of the UIC-COM. My MCAT scores were far
better than people that went to Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, and many other
big name universities." He graduated from UIUC with distinction based
on research done in V. Gelfand’s laboratory. [back to top]
2000s
Nicole L. Collins
(BS Bio-chemistry ’00) received a National Science Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship to pursue her doctoral degree in biological and
biomedical sciences at Harvard Medical School. [back to top]
Deaths
Joseph L. Jordan, MD, JD, PhD (MS
Biology ’68) died October 12, 1998. He was a doctor in the Family
Medicine Center, Albany, GA.
Mary (Betty) Joliffe
Robertson (MS Zoology ’59) died August 4, 1999, of lung cancer at
her home in Homestead, FL. Her husband, William B. Robertson, Jr.
(MS Zoology ’49, PhD Zoology ’55) died January 28, 2000, of an
apparent heart attack, also at home in Homestead. Together, Bill and Betty
conducted a 40-year study of sooty terns at Dry Tortugas, FL. Bill was a
biologist at Everglades National Park from 1951 to 1997, studying bald
eagles, crocodiles, and wading birds, and doing pioneering research into
the role of fire in maintaining ecosystems. Shortly before his death, the
National Park Service awarded him its citation for meritorious ser-vice.
Bill and Betty are survived by two daughters and a son. Contributions may
be made to the Robertson Scholarship Fund, c/o Timothy Keyser, P.A., P.O.
Box 92, Interlachen, FL 32048. [back to top] |
