Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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BIOLOGY — Richard Lumsden, Alfred Smalley. Milton Fin- german, Steven Darwin, Merle Mizell. Stuart Bamforth, Har- old Dundee. Gerald Gunning, Claudia de Gray, David Freder- ickson, Joan Bennett, Erik Ellgaard, Leonard Thien. m Wiifi CHEMISTRY — Front Row: D J. Darensbourg, Gary McPherson, Joel T. Mague, John Jacobus, Harry Ensley, Charles Fritchic, Mark Sulkes, Roy Auerback, William Al- worth; Back Row: Larry Byers, Jan Hamer, Melvyn Levy, Marcetta Y. Darcnbourg. Research PHYSICS — Robert Purrington, Joseph Kyame, Robert Morriss, Ann McKay Yards, Karlem Riess, Salvatore Buc- cino, Mike Norman, John Perdew, Ronald Deck. PSYCHOLOGY — Front Row: Chris Wilson, Chezuko Izawa, Lee Hoffman, Lawrence Dachowski, S. Gray Gar- wood; Back Row: Krista-Stewart-Lester, Jeff Lockman, Hal- sey Matteson, Ina Bilodeau, Jeff Sulzer, Jay Hansche, Janis Dunlap, Davis J. Chambliss. 24 Rcsc, •arch The history of sponsored re- search at Tulane closely resem- bles the history of the Titanic, according to Gene D ' Amour, di- rector of sponsored projects at Tulane. In 1 960, Tulane ranked 22nd of all universities in the amount of external funding received for re- search and development. By 1979, Tulane bottomed out at 116th. D ' Amour believes the Univer- sity simply lost its entreprenural spirit. In fact, the office of spon- sored research was actually elimi- nated at one point in the late 70s. Another crucial factor in Tu- lane ' s decline was that the Medi- cal School began construction of a new hospital. This activity drained much of their resources and severely affected Tulane ' s search for research funds because the Medical School usually brings in the majority of research monies. Since these funds are so impor- tant to the University, Tulane de- cided to re-establish the Office Of Sponsored Projects. In the fall of 1980, D ' Amour went to work. The idea was for this office to pick itself up by the bootstraps, but we didn ' t even have the boot- straps, D ' Amour recalled. Not only was there nothing here, but there were all kinds of barriers to doing research. We had to tear down the barriers and start con- structing systems to help faculty. The job of helping the faculty can be divided into two areas, pre- award phase, D ' Amour has estab- lished a grants information sys- tem. Through this system the fac- ulty is made aware of available grants through newsletters, spe- The idea was for this office to pick itself up by the bootstraps, but we didn ' t even have the bootstraps. cial announcements, consultant services and workshops. And once a faculty member has decided to seek a grant, D ' Amour ' s office has developed a new proposal routing procedure to help them apply for the money. D ' Amour and his staff have been working on an extensive post-award program to help fac- ulty through the red tape of ad- ministering research funds. Although he still has much more work before him, D ' Amour can happily point to impressive results from his efforts. He re- ported that 128 faculty members requested 222 grants for $14 mil- lion in 1980-81. This is dramati- cally up from 1979-80, when only 88 faculty members placed 137 applications for $9 million. The application rate is holding steady in 1981-82, he added.

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BUSINESS SCHOOL — Front row: James T Murphy, Kenneth Boudreaux, William Mindak, Lillian Gibbs, Christine Lentz, Meyer Feldberg. Irving LaValle, James Linn; Middle row: John Ingersall, Joni Steinberg, Robert Dailey, Jeffery Barach, Stuart Wood, Larry Arnold, Richard Kelsey. Soliman Y. Soliman, Gerard Watze; Back row: Lee Thomas, Don Fogal, Frank Jaster, Walter Burnett. Victor Cook, Beau Parent, Seymour Goodman. LAW SCHOOL — Front row: Rodolfo Baliza, Joseph Sweeney, William Lovett, Elizabeth Cole, Deborah Riess; Second row: Luther McDougal, Charlotte, Meriwether, Jane Johnson, Suman Neresh; Third row: Harvey Couch, Catherine Hancock, Sarajane Lowe, David Combe, Christopher Osakwe. Bradley Gater, Vernon Palmer, Thomas Carbonneau; Back row: George Striklen, Thomas Schoenbaum. Robert Force, Paul Verkuil, Konstantinos Kerameus, Paul Barron, Joel Friedman, Richard Pierce, Robert Peroni, A.N. Yiannopoulos, Oliver Houck. MATH — Front row: William Green, Albert Vitter lU, Donna Mohr; Second row: Jackie Boling, Meredith Mickel, Hester Paternostro, Maurice Dupre, J. Thomas Beale, Michael Mislove, Morris Kalka, Ronald Fintushel: Third row: Ava Holliday, Martin Guest, Karl Hofmann, Frank Quigley, Michael Rose, John Liukkonen, Terry Lawson, Edward Conway III, Laszlo Fuchs; Fourth row: Phuong Lam, Ronald Knill, Gary Sod, Martha Mark, Jerome Goldstein, Frank Tipler, John Dauns, Steven Rosencrans; Back row: John Diem, Weichung (Joe) Shih, Arnold Levine. 26 Business School School of Business Early in its history, Tulane ' s School of Business acquired a reputation for being innovative, lively and a magnet for the area ' s best and brightest students. Founded in 1 9 1 4 by Dean Mor- ton A. Aldrich, the school offered a Bachelor of Business Adminis- tration Program and, beginning in 1 940, a Master of Business Ad- ministration Program. The Bachelor of Business Ad- ministration, discontinued in 1964, was reinstated in 1976 as the Bachelor of Science in Man- agement (BSM). The school is now graduating more students than in the 1950 ' s and ' 60 ' s, said finance professor Dr. James Murphy. In fact, the post-war graduat- ing class was the only time the number of students has been greater than it is now. The application rate is the highest ever and extra classes have been added to meet the growing demand. The school ' s first graduating BSM class after reinstatement to- talled 40. That number has jumped to 111 graduating this year and 150 students are being admitted for next year ' s class. It ' s growing by leaps and bounds, says academic programs coordinator Martha Little, which shows we made the right decision in reinstating it. It looks like it ' ll be a stable, steady pro- gram. Little said the undergraduate business major is currently the most popular one on campus. Now, as it has always been, the school is interested in innovation. Computer games are utilized and though they may seem new to the rest of the world, they ' re actually old hat at Tulane. Way back in 1963 Tulane was holding one of the first symposia on the subject; there is a Commu- nication Skills Center, a comput- er laboratory and a Decision Room, which houses video screen computer terminals for various projects and course work. The intensive two-year pro- gram which every BSM candi- date takes is so varied and wide- ranging in its appeal that students from a number of different back- grounds are beginning to find their way in. It ' s not unusual to find former art majors in accounting classes and former English students go- ing into finance. We ' re attracting a variety of really bright students, said Mar- tha Little. And companies are beginning to woo our undergrad- uates — they ' re able to get jobs all over. We ' re on the cutting edge of business knowledge, Assistant Dean Chastian Taurman, III says of the school. Murphy believes the school is always asking ques- tions and that, in a way it ' s never been before, it ' s now poised to meet the needs of a growing city and a burgeoning South. Norman Mayer Hall, home for Tulane ' s School of Business, will undergo a facelift before the 1982-83 academic year. J