Born in 1959, in New York City. Most extended-family members still reside in NYC metro area.
Attended NYC public schools through high school.
B.A. in biology-biochemistry; Ph.D. in molecular biology; postdoctoral research in molecular and developmental genetics.
Assistant professor of biology at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Until August 1998, my immediate family was comprised of one silver-tabby-striped cat,
Eve
(warning! this link is not a .gif), who just turned 10 years old but is still very kitten-like, despite having become an insulin-requiring diabetic.
Since June 1997, I've been dating Gail, who was a political science
graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh
, until she moved to Chicago in August 1998 with her two cats, Jacqueline (aka "pygmy panther") and the bear-cat cuddle-slug Katie. She now works for SPSS, one of the longer-lived software developers. She has an interesting collection of web links at her home page, and terrific taste in cats (for example, our Turkish immigrant silver-teku, Streeter).
Non-Academic Interests:
Prodigous reader (science, politics, economics, current affairs, science fiction). Click here for a list of books I read some time in the last 3 months or so.
To keep track of the "real world," I read the
New York Timesnational edition, in newsprint, every day.
Regular attendee of movies, museums, ethnic restaurants, concerts.
I enjoy most music, but particularly classical (e.g., the Baroque and early Classical periods), and jazz
(e.g., mainstream acoustic idioms like swing, bebop, hard bop, free, & classicism). Click here
for a list of CDs I listened to recently.
