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that Springer is very supportive of our series, and although they “own” the series,
they have treated it, and us, as if we are the owners and let us go in any direction we
wish. We have worked with wonderful people at Springer and are grateful that Bill
Curtis takes particular pride and interest in the series and makes its importance clear
throughout the company.
7 Students
Over the years, each of us has had a number of graduate students and postdocs.
They inevitably get to know both of us because we are together so often. In addition,
there have been several students who moved from one of our labs to the other and
one student who we co-mentored to her doctorate.
This started with Sheryl Coombs. Sheryl, now retired as a professor at Bowling
Green State University in Ohio, joined Art as a graduate student in Hawai’i in 1975.
She then followed Art to Georgetown University in 1978 (although she got her
degree from Hawai’i). Sheryl worked on hearing in squirrelfi sh and made very
important contributions to our understanding of comparative hearing. After receiving her doctorate, Sheryl decided to move to the Parmly Hearing Institute at Loyola
University of Chicago to do a postdoc with Dick. Sheryl stayed on as a faculty
member at Parmly for many years doing what has become some of the most exciting
and important work on the function of the lateral line ever done. She remains a good
friend of both of ours, and we share great pride in her accomplishments.
Sheryl was followed by Zhongmin (John) Lu who made the reverse trip from
Parmly where he worked on the physiology of goldfi sh hearing with Dick to the
University of Maryland to work with Art (who moved there in 1987) on sound localization. John is a very talented physiologist and he collaborated with both of us on
individual and joint projects. John is now a tenured associate professor at the
University of Miami.
The third “shared” student was Peggy Edds-Walton. Art met Peggy when he
moved to Maryland where she was an instructor with a reputation as a stellar teacher.
Art “persuaded” Peggy to pursue her doctorate, which she did. She did really lovely
work on the anatomy of the auditory system in toadfi sh. Deciding she wanted to
learn physiology, Peggy started a collaboration and postdoc with Dick that took
place at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA (where Dick and
Cathy now live). This collaboration has been immensely productive, with Peggy
and Dick producing a seemingly endless series of important papers that combine
anatomy and physiology of fi sh hearing.
The last student we shared was Michaela Meyer. Art met Michaela on a visit to
Bonn, Germany, and invited her to come to Maryland for her doctorate. Michaela
had a passion to do physiology of fi sh hearing and because that is not Art’s expertise, we devised a scheme where we would co-mentor Michaela. This turned out to
be great fun, and Michaela got to spend time both at Maryland and at Loyola.
Indeed, she was great a real pleasure to co-mentor, and the three of us had many
It Started in Hawai’i Kai: Reminiscences of 43 Years (and Counting)…
that Springer is very supportive of our series, and although they “own” the series,
they have treated it, and us, as if we are the owners and let us go in any direction we
wish. We have worked with wonderful people at Springer and are grateful that Bill
Curtis takes particular pride and interest in the series and makes its importance clear
throughout the company.
7 Students
Over the years, each of us has had a number of graduate students and postdocs.
They inevitably get to know both of us because we are together so often. In addition,
there have been several students who moved from one of our labs to the other and
one student who we co-mentored to her doctorate.
This started with Sheryl Coombs. Sheryl, now retired as a professor at Bowling
Green State University in Ohio, joined Art as a graduate student in Hawai’i in 1975.
She then followed Art to Georgetown University in 1978 (although she got her
degree from Hawai’i). Sheryl worked on hearing in squirrelfi sh and made very
important contributions to our understanding of comparative hearing. After receiving her doctorate, Sheryl decided to move to the Parmly Hearing Institute at Loyola
University of Chicago to do a postdoc with Dick. Sheryl stayed on as a faculty
member at Parmly for many years doing what has become some of the most exciting
and important work on the function of the lateral line ever done. She remains a good
friend of both of ours, and we share great pride in her accomplishments.
Sheryl was followed by Zhongmin (John) Lu who made the reverse trip from
Parmly where he worked on the physiology of goldfi sh hearing with Dick to the
University of Maryland to work with Art (who moved there in 1987) on sound localization. John is a very talented physiologist and he collaborated with both of us on
individual and joint projects. John is now a tenured associate professor at the
University of Miami.
The third “shared” student was Peggy Edds-Walton. Art met Peggy when he
moved to Maryland where she was an instructor with a reputation as a stellar teacher.
Art “persuaded” Peggy to pursue her doctorate, which she did. She did really lovely
work on the anatomy of the auditory system in toadfi sh. Deciding she wanted to
learn physiology, Peggy started a collaboration and postdoc with Dick that took
place at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA (where Dick and
Cathy now live). This collaboration has been immensely productive, with Peggy
and Dick producing a seemingly endless series of important papers that combine
anatomy and physiology of fi sh hearing.
The last student we shared was Michaela Meyer. Art met Michaela on a visit to
Bonn, Germany, and invited her to come to Maryland for her doctorate. Michaela
had a passion to do physiology of fi sh hearing and because that is not Art’s expertise, we devised a scheme where we would co-mentor Michaela. This turned out to
be great fun, and Michaela got to spend time both at Maryland and at Loyola.
Indeed, she was great a real pleasure to co-mentor, and the three of us had many
It Started in Hawai’i Kai: Reminiscences of 43 Years (and Counting)…