Vertices 11-year index

Vertices is now in its fourteenth year of publication. The contents of our first eleven years (21 issues) are listed below.

The first eleven volumes are listed here by editor. Click on a Volume number or simply scroll down to view the contents.

For each issue, contents are listed in the following form: Title, Brief description (if necessary) -- Author.
After the feature articles, any regular departments present are noted.

• Volume I - R. Steven White
• Volume II - Ray Zwycewicz
• Volume III - April Pulley
• Volume IV - Leigh Alvarado
• Volume V - Marie DeFrances and Leonard Lee
• Volume VI - Amy Edge and Marie Taylor
• Volume VII - Sarah O'Keefe
• Volume VIII - James Kittock
• Volume IX - Megan Dishop
• Volume X - Marc Borkan
• Volume XI - Chapin Rodriguez

Number 1 (Fall 1984)

• Research, Research Triangle Park Japan's Tsukuba -- Bill Sandy
• Hemosponge, Duke doctors and innovative oxygen extraction technology -- Steven White
• Thermal maps, Temperature-sensitive crystals -- Stuart Meyers
• Efé Pygmies, African tribe struggles to survive -- John de Beixedon
• Dividends from illness, Profit incentive in health care--Ted Alyea
• Contacts, Biophysics of extended-wear lenses--Steven White
• AIDS, Ruth Lininger
• Departments: Abstracts

Number 2 (Spring 1985)

• Ballooning, Duke administrator's unusual hobby -- Steven White
• Primates, Duke Primate Center -- April Pulley
• Education, Physicians learn about the human side of health care -- Wendell Rosse, M.D., Professor of Immunology
• Socialized systems, Health care in Britain and the U.S. -- Laurie Burton
• Body rebuilding, Athletic physical therapy -- Tom Romary
• Biomechanics, Injury and the knee -- Tom Romary
• Ethics and DNA, Genetic engineering -- Neil Kalin
• Compact disks [sic] -- Ted Alyea and Dave English
• X-ray microscopy, Powerful magnification techniques -- Justin Wu
• Interview: Dr. Janis Antonovics, Ph.D., James J. Wolfe Professor of Botany
• Departments: Abstracts

Number 1 (Spring 1986)

• Computer Art -- Ulysses Balis
• The Scientific Investigation of the Shroud of Turin -- Tom Flaherty
• Alzheimer's Disease -- Sharon Leilich
• Positron Emission Topography -- Andy Weisinger
• Type A Stress Behavior and Your Health -- Charlotte Ricotta
• Caffeine -- Mary Doyle
• Word Processing at Duke -- Leslie McFarland
• Interview: Moo-Young Han, Ph. D., Professor of Physics
• Departments: Student Research

Number 1 (Fall 1986)

• Diving with DAN, Divers Alert Network national headquarters in Duke Hospital -- Sharon Leilich
• Biological Diversity -- Mary Doyle
• TUNL, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory -- Briggs Cook
• Discovering What Only the Nose Knows, Olfactory research in the Department of Neurobiology -- Susan Soule
• Artificial Limbs, Ongoing work in the Department of Biomedical Engineering -- Robert Greenberg
• Health Career Volunteers, the Duke Health Professions Advising Center -- Mary Doyle
• Gene Manipulation: Giving a Virus a Taste of It's [sic] Own Medicine -- Chris Edwards
• Structure, Steve Wainwright's undergraduate course -- April Pulley
• Blood Bank: Withdrawals and Deposits, Duke Medical Center Blood Bank -- Charlotte Ricotta
• Nitinol: Metal With a Memory -- Paul Crum
• STHV, Duke University Program in Science, Technology, and Human Values -- Amar Bhat
• Interview: Steven Wainwright, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor of Zoology
• Departments: Summaries

Number 2 (Spring 1987)

• Dolphin Watch, Program at Duke Marine Lab -- Leigh Alvarado
• Nutrasweet -- Sheri Whitney
• Coral Reefs -- Sharon Leilich
• Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Duke University Medical Center Sleep Clinic -- Susan Soule
• Habitat Destruction Threatens Lemur Populations, Duke Primate Center conducts studies in Madagascar -- Susan Copeland and Kathleen Gaisler
• Acid Rain, Studies in Duke Forest -- Mary Russell Roberson
• Shearon Harris, Controversial North Carolina nuclear power plant -- Dave Goshorn
• EIP: The Early Identification Program, Duke Medical School's special admission program -- Madhu Kancherla
• Environmental Engineering, History of program at Duke -- Amar Bhat
• Editorial: Environmental Conscience -- Amar Bhat
• Departments: Student Research Summaries

Number 1 (Fall 1987)

• MBARI, Duke oceanography professor establishes Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute -- Reed Brodsky
• DUML, 50th anniversary of marine lab -- Lori Shepard
• SSC, Superconducting supercollider -- Kristin Weidemaier
• Art Authentication, Scientific authentication techniques at the Museum of Art -- Maureen Conley
• Phytotron, NASA and Duke's phytotron -- Leslie Weisz
• Superconductivity -- Briggs Cook
• AIDS -- Beatriz Cuenca
• Changing Faces, Research and teaching at the University -- Kathleen Gaisler
• Mosaic, Carol and Eric Meyers' archeological work -- Amy Edge
• Viewpoint: John-Henry Pfifferling, Ph.D., on Educational Malpractice: Discordant Values in Medical Education
• Interview: Patricia Wright, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
• Departments: Summaries, Duke Discovery

Number 2 (Spring 1988)

• NCNC, North Carolina Nature Conservancy -- Heidi Garbaccio
• FRNM, parapsychology and the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man -- Kristin Weidemaier
• Scientific Art, Duke University Institute of the Arts' 1987-88 Festival of Science, Technology, and the Arts -- Marie DeFrances and Charlotte Fagraeus
• Paleoecology, Daniel A. Livingstone, James B. Duke Professor of Zoology -- Leslie Weisz
• 20/20 Foresight, Environmental doomsayers -- Maureen Conley
• Greenhouse Effect -- Chris Giusti and Bill Diercksen
• 1988 Election, Role of Environmental Policy -- Jennifer McHugh
• Nature vs. Nurture -- Heather Binks
• Recycling Trash -- Sheri Whitney
• Parkinson's Disease -- John Weatherspoon
• Salamanders! -- Martin Kratt
• Viewpoint: Monica Green, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, on What's Past is Prologue: The History of Women in Science
• Interview: Angela M. O'Rand, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology
• Departments: Research Summaries, Duke Discovery

Number 1 (Fall 1988)

• Wildfire Ecology, Forest fires and the balance of nature -- Alicia Bailey
• In Search of the Fifth Force, Physicists' speculations -- Kristin Weidemaier
• A Labor of Love, Lenox Baker Children's Hospital -- Jenny Vogdes
• The Future of Science Careers -- Charlotte Fagraeus
• Radon: A Household Threat -- Leslie Weisz
• A Sesquicentennial Tribute, For Duke's 150th, a look at the architectural history of East Campus -- Amy Edge
• Where Have They Gone, Who Will Follow?, North Carolina's endangered species -- Martin Kratt
• Nor Any Drop To Drink..., Ocean pollution -- Susan Soule and Kris Terrio
• Chemical Warfare -- Jeremy Jacobs
• Globe-trotting with Duke Geologist Paul Baker -- Heidi Garbaccio
• Interview: Montrose J. Moses, Ph.D., R.J. Reynolds Industries Professor in
• Departments: Medical Education, Research Summaries, Duke Discovery

Number 2 (Spring 1989)

• To Mars and Beyond..., Prospects in space exploration -- Leslie Weisz
• An Arboreal Anniversary, 50th anniversary of Duke's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies -- Marie Taylor
• Childhood Aggression -- Susan Soule
• Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion, Recipient of 1988 Prize in Medicine -- Lisa Klink
• A Sesquicentennial Tribute, For Duke's 150th, a look at the architectural history of West Campus -- Amy Edge
• Learning in Tongues, American science education in global perspective -- Leonard Lee
• Organization of Tropical Studies, 25th anniversary of Duke-based organization -- Leigh Dyer
• Viewpoint: Bruce D. Kohorn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Botany, on Genetic Engineering Research Summaries Duke Discovery

Number 1 (Fall 1989)

• Solar System Travelers, Voyager 2, Magellan, and Galileo -- Leslie Weisz
• Bioremediation: Microbes Attack Toxic Waste -- Kristin Weidemaier
• Humanity's Future Home in Space, Biosphere II -- Jonathan Rosenberg
• `The Final Frontier', Tornadoes -- Michael Todd
• Peptide Link to Digestion and Obesity, Study by Duke gastroenterologists -- Kellie Jolley
• New Steps in AIDS Research -- Sarah O'Keefe
• Nuclear Waste Disposal -- Amy Edge
• Viewpoints: Darryl Roberts, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, and Alex Roland, Ph.D., Professor of History, on Manned vs. Unmanned Spaceflight
• Interview: John Madey, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, on the Free Electron Laser
• Departments: Research Summaries, Duke Discovery

Number 2 (Spring 1990)

• The History of the Earth from the Ocean Floor, Duke professor researches geological evolution of earth at the bottom of the ocean -- Leslie Weisz
• The Man Who Stopped Time: 1906-1989, "Doc" Harold Edgerton, inventor of the strobe light -- Jonathan Rosenberg
• Sickle Cell Anemia Responds to Cancer Drug, Research at Duke University Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center -- Sarah O'Keefe
• Unraveling the Secrets of Maya Pottery, Work at Duke University Museum of Art -- James Kittock
• A Cancer Scare? The Risks of Estrogen and Progestin -- Kristin Weidemaier
• Images to Live By, 3D imaging at DUMC -- Megan Dishop
• Greenhouse Effect May Mean Lusher Plants, Research at Duke Phytotron -- Jim Hagy
• Viewpoint: Orrin H. Pilkey, Ph.D., Professor of Geology, on Truth in Science
• Interview: Henry Petroski, Ph.D., Professor of Civil Engineering
• Departments: Research Summaries, Duke Discovery

Number 1 (Fall 1990)

• The Valley of the Whales, Fossils in Egypt -- Jonathan Rosenberg
• An Investigation of Chaos -- Orin Day
• Baculovirus Ideal for Synthesis -- Peter Steinman
• Progress on Alzheimer's Gene, Work of Allen Roses -- Megan Dishop
• Botanists Learn from Satellites, Environmental applications of remote sensing -- Tracey Whitney
• The Missing Neutrino Problem, Questions in solar fusion and particle physics -- Robert Brown
• The Neutrino -- Joel Hensley
• Rethinking Math, Project CALC -- Joe Oswald
• Stargazers in Ancient Pueblos -- Leslie Weisz
• Interview: Paul Wang, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering
• Departments: Research Summaries, Duke Discovery

Number 2 (Spring 1991)

• Gene Therapy: Humanizing the Virus -- Heather Heiman
• Future Shocks, Duke seismologists and the science of earthquake prediction -- Leslie Weisz
• Earthquake! -- Brian McAdoo
• Tracing Pollutants via Fish, Work of researcher at Duke Marine Lab -- Carrie Lee Toler
• The Face of Venus -- Jeffrey Tsai
• Neural Nets Emulate Brain, Joint endeavor by researchers in the Physics and Psychology departments -- Tracey Whitney
• Status of Rejected Children, Developmental psychology at Duke -- David Schlesinger
• Profile: Robert Bryant, Ph.D., Juanita M. Kreps Professor of Mathematics -- Jennifer Slimowitz
• Viewpoint: Harmon L. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Moral Theology and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, on Applied Human Genetics: Promise and Peril
• Departments: Research Summaries, Duke Discovery, Lifelines

Number 1 (Fall 1991)

• A Matter of Taste, Chemical basis of taste -- Megan Dishop
• Shroud of Mystery, The Shroud of Turin -- Marc Borkan
• The Ultrasound of the Future, Ultrasound imaging at Duke's Engineering Research Center for Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies -- Carrie Lee Toler
• A Get-Away Adventure, Mechanical Engineering professor's project goes aboard space shuttle -- Gil Compo
• Guest Paper: Biological Rhythms and Timekeeping -- Peter Klopfer, Ph.D., and six students
• Interview: Norman Christensen, Ph.D., Professor of Botany and Dean of the School of the Environment
• Departments: Undergraduate Research Summaries, Duke Discovery, Lifelines

Number 2 (Spring 1992)

• Another Chance to Quit, Nicotine patch -- Megan Dishop
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A New Drug Therapy -- Marc Borkan
• Ranomafana: A World in Danger, Biodiversity of Madagascar rainforest -- Nate Harshman
• Atom Traps and the Quest for Absolute Zero -- Joel Hensley
• Viewpoint: George L. Maddox, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, on the future of American health care
• Interview: James F. Bonk, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry
• Departments: Research Summaries, Duke Discoveries, Lifelines

Number 1 (Fall 1992)

• High Anxiety, DUMC Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Program -- Marc Borkan
• The Making of a Glycoprotein, Chemistry and HIV -- Josh Pelroth
• Vision of the Future, Duke opthamologists work on visual prosthesis -- Elizabeth Ayer
• Stealth Liposomes, Immune system and cancer -- Heather Heiman
• Insects and Plant Evolution -- Carrie Lee Toler
• Fossil Hunters, Duke primatologists in Madagascar -- Nate Harshman
• Departments: Undergraduate Research Summaries, Duke Discoveries, Lifelines

Number 2 (Spring 1993)

• Making Sense of Musical Perception -- Nate Harshman
• Advances in Transplantation, Duke immunological studies -- Carrie Lee Toler
• Finding Order in Chaos, Complexity theory -- Elizabeth Ayer and Carter Butts
• Inside LifeFlight, DUMC's emergency helicopters -- Teresa Hsu
• Applications of the Parallel Computer, Duke's CM5 -- Lester Chen and Sanyin Siang
• Commentary: The Landscape of Modern Science -- Steve Schenk
• Interview: Steve Nowicki, Ph.D., Professor of Zoology
• Departments: Undergraduate Research Summaries, Duke Discoveries, Lifelines

Number 1 (Winter 1994)

• Science Research Center, Overview of the $77 million Leon Levine Science Research Center -- Mark Barrett with Marc Borkan
• Getting Connected, Laying the foundation for DukeNet -- Nate Harshman
• A Touch of Gray, Fuzzy logic -- Tung Tran and Ali Zomorodi
• Of Trees, Fish, and Public Policy, The School of the Environment -- Chris Holley
• An Unexpected Twist in Alzheimer's Research -- Holly Weng
• DUMC: Preparing for Changes in Health Care -- Stefan Kasian and Ali Zomorodi
• To Swim Like a Fish, Biomimetics -- Michael Ciarlo
• Departments: Undergrauate Research Summaries, Lifelines

Number 2 (Winter 1995)

• Commentary: Women in Science -- Alison Meekhof
• Virtual Reality and Neurosurgery -- Stefan Kasian
• Drunk Snails: An Introduction to the Mathematics of Random Walks -- Tung Tran
• Physics and Theology: A Conversation with Bill and Connie Walker
• Ecce Homo? Science and the Authenticity of the Turin Shroud -- Marc Borkan
• Religion and Mental Health: An Interview with Dr. Harold Koenig -- Teresa Hsu
• Evolving Solutions: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms -- Greg Badros
• Frontiers of Biotechnology Symposium, Student-organized conference brings big names in biotechnology and human genome research -- Jeff Bischoff, Mark Barrett, and Claire Southern
• Departments: Duke Discovery

Number 1 (Fall 1994)

• Eureka?, Search for the Top Quark -- Amit Agarwal
• Genetic Detectives, Duke's Department of Genetics -- Michael Ciarlo and Holly Weng
• Fighting a Deadly Enemy, Cancer -- Shannon Penland
• Chlamydomonas: A Model for Eucaryote Genetics -- Iain Cheeseman
• Departments:

Number 2 (Spring 1995)

• Learning from Bats, Neurobiology of hearing and language-- Fenella Saunders
• Energy Down the Tubes, Duke's free electron laser -- Fenella Saunders
• Choline, the Remembrancer?, Neurobiology of memory -- Holly Weng
• Hemi-Sync and Altered Consciousness, The Monroe Institute and self-mind-control -- Stefan Kasian
• Bringing Duke Computing Up to Speed, Duke Online Information Services Project -- Min Li
• Unearthing the TUNL, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory -- Michael Rierson
• The Great Ecological Frontier, Rainforests -- Michael Ciarlo
• Essay: Nature and the Aesthetic Uncaptured -- Steve Schenk
• Departments: Undergraduate Research Summaries, Duke Discovery, Trends in Science

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