“Leading Voices”
, a speaker series held once a semester, recognizes and invites a
faculty member from St. John’s College with a distinguished record
in scholarship, research and creative accomplishment to reflect
upon her/his craft and career. In the format of a conversation with
an interviewer, this informal yet informative forum is intended to
uncover individual personalities, passions, and approaches that
have lead each of these scholars, researchers, or artists to such
excellent levels of achievement. It recognizes them as “leading
voices” in the College, who serve to enrich, encourage, and inspire
both faculty and students. This forum similarly is in line with
efforts to foster a vibrant, collegial environment of
interdisciplinary communication and collaboration at St John’s
University.
Steering Committee:
Dorah Ahmad (Eng),
José G. Centeno
(CSD; Coordinator),
Robert Delfino
(Phi), Paul Fabozzi (Fine Arts),
Beverly Greene
(Psych),
Timothy Milford
(Hist),
David Rosenthal
(Math),
Laura M. Schramm
(Bio)
FALL 2011
Thursday, Nov. 10
2:00-3:15 PM (Common Hour)
Bent Hall 101C
Everyone
– students, faculty, administrators, and general public - is
invited to attend
Invited Speaker
Richard Lockshin, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biological Sciences (retired)
Interviewer
Laura Schramm, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, St. John's College (Staten Island)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
Dr. Richard Lockshin
is a cellular biologist from the Department of Biological Sciences,
St. John’s University. He is best known for his work on programmed
cell death. Dr. Lockshin earned his bachelor's degree in
Biochemical Sciences and a doctorate in Biology at Harvard. Dr.
Lockshin’s thesis research focused mainly on developmental cell
death in insects and for which he received his Ph.D, under the
direction of Dr. Carroll Williams. In 1964, Lockshin and
Williams published their breakthough contribution to cell biology
entitled "Programmed Cell Death: Endocrine Potentiation of the
Breakdown of the Intersegmental Muscles of Silkmoths", in which
they coined the term, "programmed cell death" during a time in cell
biology when little research was being carried out on this topic.
Richard Lockshin has made significant contributions to the cell
death community throughout his illustrious career at St. John’s
University.
SPRING 2011
Wed.,
April 13
Invited Speaker
Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Psychology
Director, Social Stress and Health Research Unit
Interviewer
Beverly Greene, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor, Department of Psychology
Diplomate in Clinical Psychology
American Board of Professional Psychology
Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D. is a
Professor at St. John's University in Queens, NY, and Director of
the Social Stress and Health Research Unit. Her research unit
conducts programmatic, mechanistic research aimed at understanding
and ameliorating social problems. Specifically, Dr. Brondolo and
her students study effects of work stress, racism, and poverty on
mood and cardiovascular health. Her research employs a variety of
methodologies, including ambulatory monitoring, to permit her to
bring the “lab to the field”. Her research has been funded by the
NIMH, CDC-NIOSH, NHLBI, and the AHA. She is also a working
clinician, specializing in the treatment of bipolar disorder and
post-traumatic stress disorder. She is the author of Break the Bipolar Cycle: A
Day-to-Day Guide to Living with Bipolar Disorder (McGraw
Hill).