Annual Reviews Conversations

What happens when one award winning astronomer interviews another?

Sandy Faber, Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in conversation with Dutch astronomer Maarten Schmidt about his life and work. Audio 4 of 4. Read the accompanying article entitled "Exploring the Universe" http://arevie.ws/maartenschmidt.

Annual Reviews is a non-profit publisher that offers accurate, enlightened syntheses of the research literature in the natural and social sciences in order to advance knowledge and to provide an informed view to the wider public.

What happens when one award winning astronomer interviews another?

Sandy Faber, Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in conversation with Dutch astronomer Maarten Schmidt about his life and work. Audio 2 of 4. Read the accompanying article entitled "Exploring the Universe" http://arevie.ws/maartenschmidt.

Annual Reviews is a non-profit publisher that offers accurate, enlightened syntheses of the research literature in the natural and social sciences in order to advance knowledge and to provide an informed view to the wider public.

What happens when one award winning astronomer interviews another?

Sandy Faber, Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in conversation with Dutch astronomer Maarten Schmidt about his life and work. Audio 3 of 4. Read the accompanying article entitled "Exploring the Universe" http://arevie.ws/maartenschmidt.

Annual Reviews is a non-profit publisher that offers accurate, enlightened syntheses of the research literature in the natural and social sciences in order to advance knowledge and to provide an informed view to the wider public.

What happens when one award winning astronomer interviews another?

Sandy Faber, Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in conversation with Dutch astronomer Maarten Schmidt about his life and work. Audio 1 of 4. Read the accompanying article entitled "Exploring the Universe" http://arevie.ws/maartenschmidt.

Annual Reviews is a non-profit publisher that offers accurate, enlightened syntheses of the research literature in the natural and social sciences in order to advance knowledge and to provide an informed view to the wider public.

Read the associated article: http://arevie.ws/groupaffect

Explore how emotional contagion helps maintain group cohesiveness in a professional environment, and how leaders can cultivate positive affect for better results. Sigal Barsade, of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Knight, of Olin Business School at Washington University, discuss their article "Group Affect," which they co-wrote for the 2015 Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

Maribeth V. Eiden, of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation at the National Institute of Mental Health, discusses her article “Koala Retroviruses: Evolution and Disease Dynamics,” which she wrote with Wenqin Xu for the 2015 Annual Review of Virology. Read their article at: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-virology-100114-055056

Adam Heller, Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and Chief Science Officer at SynAgile Corp., talks about his life and career with Elton J. Cairns, Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Heller discusses his and his family’s deportation from Hungary to Switzerland during the second World War, and their move to British Mandate Palestine, which eventually became Israel. He then recounts how his research allowed him to lead the development of one of the very first lithium batteries, liquid lasers, more efficient solar cells, and a way to monitor the glucose concentration in the blood of diabetic patients.

In conversation with professor Dianne Newman, Caltech geobiologist, James “Jim” J. Morgan recalls his early days in Ireland and New York City, education in parochial and public schools, and introduction to science in Cardinal Hayes High School, Bronx. In 1950, Jim entered Manhattan College, where he elected study of civil engineering, in particular water quality. Donald O'Connor motivated Jim's future study of O2 in rivers at Michigan, where in his MS work he learned to model O2dynamics of rivers. As an engineering instructor at Illinois, Jim worked on rivers polluted by synthetic detergents. He chose to focus on chemical studies, seeing it as crucial for the environment. Jim enrolled for PhD studies with Werner Stumm at Harvard, who mentored his research in chemistry of particle coagulation and oxidation processes of Mn(II) and (IV). In succeeding decades, until retirement in 2000, Jim's teaching and research centered on aquatic chemistry; major themes comprised rates of abiotic manganese oxidation on particle surfaces and flocculation of natural water particles, and chemical speciation proved the key.

Read a transcript of the conversation online at http://arevie.ws/JamesJMorgan.

Hanna Pitkin, Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about her life and career with Nancy Rosenblum, Professor of Ethics and Politics in Government at Harvard University and Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Dr. Pitkin discusses her childhood, growing up between two "Jewish intellectual left-wingers" who fled 1930s Germany to Oslo, Prague, and eventually Los Angeles. She describes how her refugee status and acquisition of new languages led her to become a scholar in political science. In 1967, she published "The Concept of Representation," which won the 2003 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science "for her groundbreaking theoretical work, predominantly on the problem of representation." She went on to study other topics such as gender and politics in Machiavelli and Hannah Arendt's concept of "the Social." Read the associated article online: http://arevie.ws/HannaPitkin.

Edgar H. Schein, Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management, talks about his life and career with Frederick P. Morgeson, Eli Broad Professor of Management at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management of Michigan State University in an interview for the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. Read the associated article: http://arevie.ws/EdSchein.