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N.C. State's Centennial Campus Continues To Undergo Changes
Eight Building Projects Currently Under Way
Five-legged
dog steals hearts
Foundling pooch may get surgery
Sun's
antics may tint Carolina skies
'Northern Lights' are rare down South, but sky watchers are hopeful tonight
District
D council race heats up
Complaint about unsigned ad is latest episode in Kirkman-Crowder runoff
N.C.
bridge replacement takes yet another turn
cites John Fisher, geology
Institute
of Medicine Announces New Members and Associates
cites Jim E. Riviere, pharmacology
Oct. 30, 2003
The News & Observer
By Ryan Teague Beckwith, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 The News & Observer Publishing Company.
RALEIGH -- When Liz Bell saw the small, shivering dog in her friend's front yard, she thought it had been hit by a car. Its back left leg was curled under. It had a pronounced limp.
But when a veterinarian at an emergency clinic got a closer look, she found something much more serious. The dog had too many legs.
The dog, a female Maltese and terrier mix, is between 9 months and 1 year old. Veterinarians say it is extremely rare for an animal with such a serious deformity to survive into adulthood.
When she heard of the animal, Dr. Rebecca Tudor, a veterinary surgeon affiliated with N.C. State University, was stumped. She scoured medical journals for clues but found nothing. None of her university colleagues could help.
"I'm sure puppies have been born like that before," she said. "But to be an adult dog, well, I've never heard of it."
Bell, 39, hopes surgery can repair the little dog she calls Popcorn. The NCSU administrative assistant first encountered Popcorn two weeks ago while relaxing at home on a Saturday afternoon. She got a call from a friend, Debbie Hicks, who lives outside Raleigh near Umstead State Park. Hicks had discovered the stray dog on her front porch.
The dog looked to be in trouble, Hicks told her. It had lost much of its hair and had scabs across its back. Hicks tried to get close, but the dog snarled.
Bell, a dog lover who has a 15-year-old mutt, drove right over. The two women put on long-sleeved shirts and gardening gloves and gently coaxed the dog into a blue plastic cat carrier.
They took it to the After Hours Small Animal Emergency Clinic on Glenwood Avenue, but veterinarians took one look at the five legs and said there was little they could do.
Bell kept the dog over the weekend. Once she fed it and treated it for fleas, it became friendlier. She decided the dog must have had an owner at some point because it was house-trained. But it looked like it had been on its own for a while.
On Monday morning, Bell took the dog to Dr. Frank Ansede, her regular vet, who runs the Ansede Animal Hospital in South Raleigh. His assistant, Katie Morrison, took one look at the 6-pound, white-haired pup jumping around the office and named her "Popcorn."
The picture got clearer. Popcorn has an extra, or supernumerary, leg on her left back side. It is about 80 percent complete, with a femur, a tibia and one toenail. The other leg is normal, but it has been pushed to the side by the extra bones.
Ansede found other problems, too. An X-ray revealed that Popcorn is missing a rib. She had an ear infection and needed shots. Surgery to remove the extra leg would help, he advised, but it would be complicated and expensive.
Ansede approached Tudor, who runs a mobile animal surgery service, for help. The surgeon was intrigued. "It's just one of those bizarre things that happen in nature that we don't have a good reason for," Tudor said.
Both vets agreed to waive some of their usual fees, but with blood work and other expenses, the surgery will still cost about $800. Bell, who works in the electrical and computer engineering department at NCSU, has raised a couple of hundred dollars to pay expenses so far.
Because of the unusual bone structure, the veterinarians may end up removing both back left legs, leaving the five-legged dog with just three. Holding the chipper little dog in a white kitchen towel in Ansede's office, Bell said she is convinced Popcorn can handle anything -- and is worth the trouble.
"How could you not love that dog?" she asked. "She's so resilient."
Staff writer Ryan Teague Beckwith can be reached at 836-4944.
Sun's antics may tint Carolina skies
Oct. 30, 2003
The News & Observer
By Richard Stradling, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 The News & Observer Publishing Company.
The powerful geomagnetic storm that slammed the Earth Wednesday caused little if any problems in North Carolina, but brought the chance of a rare Northern Lights show that could continue tonight.
The storm -- rated a G5, the most intense on the scale of space weather -- caused shimmering auroras in the night sky as far south as Texas before dawn Wednesday. Auroras might have been visible then in North Carolina as well, if not for thick clouds, said Joe Kunches, chief of space weather operations at the national Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo.
And while the solar storm that spawned the lights peaked early Wednesday, auroras were still possible over the state into the night and perhaps again tonight, when skies were expected to be clear, Kunches said.
"There's no reason to think now that any of this is going to blow up and go away," he said. "There's severe space weather going on."
One of the most powerful solar flares ever recorded erupted Tuesday, sending a cloud of charged particles hurtling through space at 5 million mph. Nineteen hours later, at a little after 1 a.m. Wednesday, the cloud hit the Earth.
The Earth's magnetic field shields the planet and most satellites from solar storms, said John Blondin, a physics professor at N.C. State University.
"If it weren't for Earth's magnetic field, these things would come by and fry us," Blondin said.
But the storm's energy follows the Earth's magnetic field toward the poles, where some leaks in. That's why solar storms tend to disrupt radio frequencies and electric transmission lines in Canada and the northern United States, closest to the north magnetic pole in the frozen seas north of Canada.
Communications cut
Wednesday's storm disrupted communications with airliners flying northern routes and caused some utilities in the Northeast and Canada to reduce generating capacity and shut down some transmission lines as a precaution.
Northern Lights occur when the charged particles reacts with gases in the atmosphere, like a neon light. Northern Lights in the south are not unheard of, said Kunches; a solar flare in November 2001 sparked blues, reds and greens in the night sky as far south as Georgia and Alabama.
Predicting a Northern Lights show is very difficult, and seeing them is often a matter of chance.
James Rose, an astronomy professor at UNC-CH, has not seen an aurora since he was a kid living near New York City. Rose expects lights would be subtle this far south and that people would have to be in a dark place with an open view to the north.
Bob Gotwals Jr. said he would check the skies Wednesday night, in between helping to host an event for kids at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. Gotwals, the planetarium's associate director, said he's never seen an aurora before.
"I'm certainly going to be looking," he said.
Staff writer Richard Stradling can be reached at 829-4739.
N.C. State's Centennial Campus Continues To Undergo Changes
Oct. 30, 2003
WRAL.com
By Rick Armstrong
© Copyright 2003 WRAL.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Kudzu once covered the land at North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus. Now, college construction is creeping in with at least eight major building projects under way, adding a half-million square feet of space.
N.C. State's Centennial Campus began small in 1991 with the School of Textiles. Officials say it is now blooming into one of the largest university research centers in the country.
"This is the university of the future," said Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of N.C. State.
By 2005, all engineering departments will be in new facilities. In two years, the state Wildlife Commission will also make its home at Centennial Campus. Every project is planned with the same mission in mind.
"To build a place where we could more closely collaborate with our partners in industry and government," said Bob Geolas, planning director for Centennial Campus.
For example, Red Hat Software sponsors research and offers co-ops and internships to students. The only thing lacking is campus housing, but that will not be for long. Private developers are partnering with N.C. State to build condominiums.
However, the new housing may not fit the budget of most college students. Officials say midrise condominiums begin at $178,000. The planned four-story townhouses are expected to be worth $205,000.
"It is priced more for the market of those [people] whether they be in faculty positions or positions in the private companies here," Geolas said.
"I think that people look at it as a good future. The school is growing, and new facilities provide new technology," student Nikola Vouk said.
N.C. State University's master plan also includes an elevated transit system to link the historic university with Centennial Campus.
District D council race heats up
Oct. 30, 2003
The News & Observer
By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 The News & Observer Publishing Company.
RALEIGH -- Thomas Crowder, the challenger in the Raleigh City Council District D race, filed a complaint with election board officials Wednesday for newspaper advertisements supporting incumbent Benson Kirkman that failed to indicate who paid for them.
Kirkman said he's not responsible for the ad. And Crowder said he knows Kirkman didn't pay it.
One ad ran in Wednesday's edition of the Independent Weekly and, the complaint said, others in the Oct. 6 and Oct. 7 issues of Technician, N.C. State University's student newspaper.
"It does appear that this ad failed to comply with the disclosure requirements," said Don Wright, general counsel for the State Elections Board, looking at the ad in the Independent. Wright said an investigator would start an inquiry today about it.
The ad in the Independent Wednesday asks voters to "keep Crowder the fox out of the Raleigh henhouse!!" and calls it Crowder's "boondoggle" to limit rental houses to two occupants. Crowder supported a change limiting the number of unrelated people who could live together in a house last year as an effort to stop investors from buying up single-family homes and converting them into crowded rental houses that residents say hurt neighborhoods.
Kirkman said he didn't consider the ad in "good taste." But, he added, "I can't stop other people from doing things."
The letter was only the latest skirmish this week in the battle for the southwest district seat.
Kirkman apologized Wednesday for a flier he sent to voters this week claiming that Crowder, a Planning Commission member, has missed more than 20 percent of commission meetings in 2002. According to commission attendance records, Crowder missed about 18 percent of meetings.
"Like many, I balance my duties as a family man, a business man and a civic leader," Crowder said.
Kirkman said that "somewhere between the statistics and the copy" the flier was changed.
Kirkman slammed a letter Crowder sent this week, calling it inaccurate and an attack on the City Council. The letter said Crowder has heard from neighbors who say they are concerned about increased traffic, stormwater runoff, increased crime, responsible property ownership and neighborhood park maintenance, among other issues.
Kirkman pointed out that he has supported millions for stormwater improvements in the district, sped up a study to slow down neighborhood traffic, pushed through the ordinance cracking down on rowdy parties and supported an increase in park maintenance staff.
"He throws these things out like nothing is being done," Kirkman said. "Either he can't read or he doesn't spend any time in City Hall."
Crowder stands by the letter.
"I don't think I'm slamming the council," he said. "These are issues that are concerns to the district, and they have expressed that they want strong leadership looking after their interest at the table."
Staff writer Sarah Lindenfeld Hall can be reached at 829-8983.
RTP group targets region's future growth industries
Oct. 29, 2003
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By staff report
© Copyright 2003 Associated Press
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - At its largest U.S. site, hundreds of IBM Corp. employees are working on making computers that would be as unobtrusive in user's lives as a wristwatch.
In Chapel Hill, biomedical engineers and computing whizzes on the University of North Carolina faculty have started InnerOptic Technology Inc. The tiny private company's 3-D imaging system would allow surgeons to see internal organs and tumors with a sophisticated camera passed through a tiny peep hole.
The two businesses are representative of the eight emerging industries a think tank has tabbed as ones that could someday employ thousands from Fort Bragg to the Virginia line, and from Burlington to Rocky Mount.
Business and political leaders in the Research Triangle area hope to focus economic development efforts around those industries, attracting suppliers and competitors in a catalytic cycle similar to those which led the U.S. auto industry to coalesce around Detroit and the dot.com revolution to be centered in Silicon Valley.
"These are the technologies that we will lead in and where the employment opportunities will be," said Charles Hayes, president of Research Triangle Regional Partnership, one of North Carolina's seven regional economic development groups. "We will focus on companies in these technologies, pick the ones that have growth in their future and try to get them to come here rather than somewhere else in the world."
The idea is to leverage local university research and existing business skills in fields like biotechnology and computing to create "technology clusters."
The partnership, led by former Gov. Jim Hunt, hired Research Triangle Institute to review the region's current advantages. The nonprofit research organization identified emerging industries where the Triangle could become among the world leaders.
The eight are:
The partnership now plans to analyze companies in the targeted industries that are poised for growth, then approach company executives and explain the advantages their business would enjoy if they moved to the Triangle, Hayes said.
More jobs could come from secondary businesses, like companies that manufacture specialized containers for pharmaceuticals makers, Hayes said. That type of business might locate in nearby rural areas where land and labor are cheaper, Hayes said.
Gov. Mike Easley and legislative leaders were briefed on the partnership's findings earlier this month.
State and local governments may be asked to make sure that universities and community colleges in the area are teaching the right courses to attract the industries, that taxes are structured appropriately to fit these types of companies, and incentives are available to lure them, Hayes said.
North Carolina State University economist Michael Walden said area leaders are smart to build on the region's high-tech foundation. Focusing recruiting and retention efforts on key industries is also a good idea, he said.
But Walden is less sure about the benefits of taxpayer-funded incentives. He believes such incentives do little to sway companies more concerned with where they will find workers, where their customers and suppliers are, and how to deliver their products.
"Those are much more important than whether a business will get a tax break," Walden said.
IBM's pervasive computing division located its heaviest concentration of employees in RTP because of the available software expertise surrounding the company's existing campus, said Eugene Cox, the division's director of product management.
The division also has employees in Austin, Texas; several sites in New York, and England and Japan, he said.
Cox said the proximity of Web equipment makers Nortel Networks and Cisco Systems Inc. also was attractive for IBM.
InnerOptic Technology represents the kind of business the partnership hopes to grow locally. It was launched to develop a surgical system in which a camera is inserted through a small hole through the patient's body. The camera projects a view of the interior on a screen mounted in front of the surgeon's eyes. That gives surgeons a three-dimensional view of their work rather than watching a video monitor in the operating room.
The system has been under development at UNC-Chapel Hill for five years and has been tested on pig cadavers, InnerOptic president Kurtis Keller said. Development to include Food and Drug Administration approval is being funded by a National Science Foundation small business research grant.
N.C. bridge replacement takes yet another turn
Oct. 30, 2003
The Virginian-Pilot
By Catherine Kozak, staff writer
© Copyright 2003 The Virginian-Pilot.
WILLIAMSTON – Planning for a replacement bridge over Oregon Inlet has taken another turn, with a fifth alternative under consideration that would anchor the span at the old Oregon Inlet Coast Guard Station on the inlet’s south side.
In its first meeting after Hurricane Isabel cut Hatteras Island in two and worsened every other weak spot on the only highway on Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, the Outer Banks Task Force, an interagency panel that has studied N.C. 12 problems for much of the last 10 years, on Tuesday shared post-storm updates with more than 40 representatives gathered at Martin County Community College.
It soon became apparent that the complexities of fixing N.C. 12 have become more snarled even as progress is being made on some planning and projects.
The concept of siting a new bridge east of the existing Herbert C. Bonner Bridge, proposed about a week ago by Dare County Commissioner Stan White, could answer the county’s concern about public access to Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Concerns have been raised about a proposal to run the bridge 17 miles along the west side of the barrier island, bypassing the refuge.
Jennifer Harris, state Department of Transportation project manager, told the task force that planning for the bridge replacement project has been put on hold until April to allow DOT more time to develop the new alternative.
Harris said the DOT would look at the feasibility of the bridge crossing over the terminal groin on the south end of Oregon Inlet and landing in the area behind it. But she said that the engineering would have to address the more intense conditions.
“There’s new challenges with being that close to the ocean and being right in the middle of the inlet,” Harris said after the meeting.
Replacement of the aging bridge has been on the drawing board since the mid-1990s.
But until last year, progress has been stymied by permitting delays and lack of funds. After it was determined that the erosion rate was too high where the initial plans had sited the bridge, new alternatives were studied. The 17-mile alternative was met with favor by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the Pea Island refuge, and the DOT.
Refuge manager Mike Bryant said Wednesday that it was his understanding that the 50 acres of land that has built up behind the groin also belongs to the refuge.
Bryant said he has not seen any sketch of exactly where the bridge could cross, but he said it could potentially trigger permitting requirements with Fish and Wildlife.
But White, who is also a member of the state Board of Transportation, said he came up with the idea as a way to circumvent such permitting requirements.
At an Oct. 17 meeting with Fish and Wildlife officials in Atlanta, White said it was made clear that the service would not allow any such projects within its property because it did not meet its federally mandated compatibility standards.
“Certainly, the primary objective is long-term reliable access to Hatteras Island,” White said. But he said he was also worried the proposed $270 million cost of the 17-mile bridge would leave the county with a dry well for other projects. He said even with continued maintenance of N.C. 12 in Pea Island, the cost of his proposed bridge would be less.
White added that he understood that the accreted land at the station belonged to the state.
Southern Shores attorney Norm Shearin, who represented the state Department of Commerce on Oregon Inlet issues, said that when the station was transferred to the county, the land had been eroded up to the building. Therefore, he said, it follows that whatever land built up from that point was county land, which was later transferred to the state.
Sand was also an issue in Ocracoke, where there’s not enough to build berms along the storm-damaged road. National Park Service Outer Banks Group Superintendent Lawrence Belli said he would support allowing the dredge that is working now in Pamlico Sound to stay a little longer and pump up Ocracoke’s protective dunes as a temporary solution.
The Park Service must sign off on projects along Ocracoke because it owns the land there.
About 5 miles of pavement between the ferry terminal on the island’s north end and the pony pens was severely overwashed, destroying the dune line and about a mile of roadbed. While workers are in the process of rebuilding the road, the dispersed sand has been pushed off the road into a dune.
But there were concerns that the barrier is not hefty enough to do the job.
“I absolutely agree that the dune that we’re putting back is miserable and is not big enough,” said John Fisher, a coastal geology professor at N.C. State University.
“There’s a lot of things that have to be done here,” said Wayne Bissette, a dredge project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “You can’t just pick up the pipe and turn it around ... It is something we can look into.”
Reach Catherine Kozak at 252-441-1711.
Institute of Medicine Announces New Members and Associates
Oct. 30, 2003
The Chronicle of Higher Education
By staff report
© Copyright 2003 The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies, announced the election of 65 new members and 5 foreign associates on Monday.
Current, active members elect new members from among candidates chosen for their major contributions to health and medicine, or to related fields such as social and behavioral sciences, law, administration, and economics. The institute's charter requires that at least one-fourth of the members be drawn from other than the health professions.
The new members are:
James M. Anderson, professor of pathology, macromolecular science, and biomedical engineering, Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve U.
Ann M. Arvin, the Lucile Packard professor of pediatrics and professor of microbiology and immunology, School of Medicine, Stanford U.
James P. Bagian, director, National Center for Patient Safety, Veterans Health Administration (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
William G. Barsan, professor and chairman, department of emergency medicine, U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Robert H. Bartlett, professor of surgery, U. of Michigan Medical Center (Ann Arbor).
John D. Baxter, professor of medicine, department of medicine and diabetes center, U. of California at San Francisco.
M. Flint Beal, the Ann Parrish Titzel professor and chair, department of neurology and neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell U.
Henry R. Bourne, professor of pharmacology and medicine, department of cellular and molecular pharmacology, U. of California at San Francisco.
Rebecca H. Buckley, the J. Buren Sidbury professor of pediatrics, professor of immunology, and chief of the division of pediatric allergy and immunology, Duke U. Medical Center.
Peter I. Buerhaus, senior associate dean for research and the Valere Potter professor of nursing, Vanderbilt U.
Lincoln C. Chen, director of global equity initiative, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard U.
Francis V. Chisari, professor, department of molecular and experimental medicine, Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, Calif.).
Lester M. Crawford, deputy commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.).
Michael P. Doyle, Regents professor of food microbiology and director of the Center for Food Safety, U. of Georgia.
Jeffrey M. Drazen, editor in chief, New England Journal of Medicine (Boston).
Brian J. Druker, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor of medicine, cell and developmental biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology; and director, Cancer Institute, Leukemia Center, Oregon Health and Science U.
Andrew G. Engel, professor of neurology and neuroscience, Mayo Medical School, and director of the muscle laboratory, department of neurology, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.).
John W. Erdman Jr., holder of the nutrition-research endowed chair and professor of internal medicine, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ronald M. Evans, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor and March of Dimes chairman of molecular and developmental biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (San Diego, Calif.).
Paul E. Farmer, the Presley professor of medical anthropology, department of social medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Judith Feder, professor and dean of public policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown U.
Jeffrey S. Flier, the George C. Reisman professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; and chief academic officer and Harvard faculty dean for academic affairs, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston).
Donald E. Ganem, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of microbiology and medicine, U. of California at San Francisco.
Lillian Gelberg, the George F. Kneller professor, department of family medicine, U. of California at Los Angeles.
Richard H. Gelberman, the Fred C. Reynolds professor and chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery, School of Medicine, Washington U. in St. Louis.
Roger I. Glass, chief of the viral-gastroenteritis section, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta).
Michael M. Gottesman, deputy director for intramural research, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.).
Mark T. Groudine, professor of radiation oncology, School of Medicine, U. of Washington; and director of the division of basic sciences and deputy director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle).
Richard L. Guerrant, the Thomas H. Hunter professor of international medicine and director of the Center for Global Health, School of Medicine, U. of Virginia.
Ashley T. Haase, Regents professor, head of microbiology, and professor of medicine, Medical School of U. of Minnesota.
Gail G. Harrison, professor and chairwoman, department of community-health sciences, School of Public Health, U. of California at Los Angeles.
William L. Holzemer, professor and associate dean for international programs, and director of the World Health Organization Nursing Collaborating Center and International Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Clinical Training in Nursing, School of Nursing, U. of California at San Francisco.
Leroy E. Hood, president and director, Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle).
H. Robert Horvitz, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the David H. Koch professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Thomas R. Insel, director, National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, Md.).
Rakesh K. Jain, the A.W. Cook professor, Harvard Medical School; and director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory, department of radiation oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston).
Timothy R.B. Johnson, the Bates professor of diseases of women and children, and chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology, U. of Michigan Medical Center (Ann Arbor).
Cynthia J. Kenyon, the Herbert Boyer professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and director, Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, department of biophysics and biochemistry, U. of California at San Francisco.
Helena C. Kraemer, professor of biostatistics in psychiatry, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford U.
Shiriki K. Kumanyika, associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention, professor of epidemiology, and director, Graduate Program in Public Health Studies, School of Medicine, U. of Pennsylvania.
Timothy J. Ley, Alan and Edith Wolff professor of medicine, division of oncology, School of Medicine, Washington U. in St. Louis.
Douglas R. Lowy, chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, and deputy director, division of basic sciences and Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, Md.).
Mark B. McClellan, commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.).
Richard T. Miyamoto, Arilla Spence DeVault professor and chairman, department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery, School of Medicine, Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis.
Paul L. Modrich, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the James B. Duke professor of biochemistry, department of biochemistry, Duke U. Medical Center.
Harold L. Moses, professor of cancer biology, medicine, and pathology, and director, Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vanderbilt U. Medical Center.
Godfrey P. Oakley Jr., consultant, Canadian Micronutrient Initiative, and visiting professor, department of epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory U.
Jean W. Pape, professor of medicine, division of international medicine and infectious diseases, Weill Medical College of Cornell U.
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, the James B. Duke professor of medicine, and director, Center for Human Genetics, Duke U. Medical Center.
Neil R. Powe, director, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, and professor of medicine, epidemiology, and health policy and management, School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins U.
Arthur L. Reingold, professor of epidemiology and head of division of epidemiology, School of Public Health, U. of California at Berkeley.
Jim E. Riviere, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund distinguished professor of pharmacology and director, Center for Chemical Toxicology Research and Pharmacokinetics, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State U.
Diane Rowland, executive vice president, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Washington).
Jeffrey D. Sachs, director, Earth Institute, Columbia U.
Hugh A. Sampson, professor of pediatrics; chief, division of pediatric allergy and immunology; and director, General Clinical Research Center, department of pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Leona D. Samson, the Ellison American Cancer Society research professor, professor of biological engineering and toxicology, and director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Alan F. Schatzberg, professor and chairman, department of psychiatry and behavioral health sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford U.
Oliver Smithies, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, department of pathology, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Harrison C. Spencer, president, Association of Schools of Public Health (Washington).
Shelley E. Taylor, professor of psychology, U. of California at Los Angeles.
Peter K. Vogt, member, division of oncovirology, Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, Calif.).
Jeffrey A. Whitsett, director, divisions of neonatology and pulmonary biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati).
M. Roy Wilson, president, Texas Tech U. Health Science Center.
Owen N. Witte, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and the David Saxon presidential chair in developmental immunology and professor, department of molecular and medical pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, U. of California at Los Angeles.
Keith R. Yamamoto, professor and chairman, department of cellular and molecular pharmacology, and vice dean for research, School of Medicine, U. of California at San Francisco.
The new foreign associates are:
Richard R. Ernst, professor, Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich).
John B. Gurdon, research scientist and group leader, U. of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research U.K. Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology (Cambridge, England).
Nicole Le Douarin, permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Embryology at the National Center for Scientific Research (Nogent-sur-Marne Cedex, France).
Robin M. Murray, professor and head, department of psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley, King's College (London).
Ismail A. Sallam, professor, department of cardiovascular surgery, Ain Shams U. (Cairo).