scholarly journals WOMEN IN REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCE: Discovering science and the ovary: a career of joy

Reproduction ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 158 (6) ◽  
pp. F69-F80
Author(s):  
JoAnne S Richards
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Baylor College ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Discovery Process ◽  
Nad Kinase ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Reproductive Science ◽  
Receptor Assays ◽  
The University

My career has been about discovering science and learning the joys of the discovery process itself. It has been a challenging but rewarding process filled with many exciting moments and wonderful colleagues and students. Although I went to college to become a French major, I ultimately stumbled into research while pursuing a Masters Degree in teaching. Thus, my research career began in graduate school where I was studying NAD kinase in the ovary as a possible regulator of steroidogenesis, a big issue in the late 1960s. After a short excursion of teaching in North Dakota, I became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, where radio-immuno assays and radio receptor assays had just come on the scene and were transforming endocrinology from laborious bioassays to quantitative science and of course these assays related to the ovary. From there I went to Baylor College of Medicine, a mecca of molecular biology, cloning genes and generating mouse models. It has been a fascinating and joyous journey.

Anthropology and International Business

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-12 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
International Business ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The University

Three years ago, Bart Tebbs, head of the Department of Management at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, approached me, waving a copy of a new paperback that he had just received from the publisher. "Would you be interested in teaching a course around this book?" he asked. The book was entitled "The Cultural Environment of International Business. It was written by Vern Terpstra, a professor at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration, with contributions by Ian H. Giddy, Thomas Neil Gladwin, Stephen J. Kobrin, and Ravi Sarathy. The table of contents promised to relate eight categories of culture—language, religion, values and attitudes, social organization, education, technology and material culture, the political environment—to the operations of international business.

Novae in the Magellanic Clouds

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
J.A. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Large Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Magellanic Clouds ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spectroscopic Information ◽  
Objective Prism ◽  
The University ◽  
Small Cloud ◽  
Low Dispersion

During the past several years, a systematic search for novae in the Magellanic Clouds has been carried out at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The Curtis Schmidt telescope, on loan to CTIO from the University of Michigan is used to obtain plates every two weeks during the observing season. An objective prism is used on the telescope. This provides additional low-dispersion spectroscopic information when a nova is discovered. The plates cover an area of 5°x5°. One plate is sufficient to cover the Small Magellanic Cloud and four are taken of the Large Magellanic Cloud with an overlap so that the central bar is included on each plate. The methods used in the search have been described by Graham and Araya (1971). In the CTIO survey, 8 novae have been discovered in the Large Cloud but none in the Small Cloud. The survey was not carried out in 1974 or 1976. During 1974, one nova was discovered in the Small Cloud by MacConnell and Sanduleak (1974).

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