Annual Reviews

Alan Baddeley, Professor of Psychology at the University of York, talks about his autobiographical article "Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies," which he wrote for the 2012 Annual Review of Psychology. In this lecture, Dr. Baddeley describes the evolving approaches to understanding memory over the course of the 20th century, and how he came to develop the multicomponent approach t...

Jolanda Jetten, Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, talks about her article "Deviance and Dissent in Groups," which she wrote with Matthew J. Hornsey, also of the University of Queensland, for the 2014 Annual Review of Psychology. Dr. Jetten explores the reasons why people engage in deviance and dissent in groups, a little-researched aspect of psychology, as historically, the...

Donald E. Ingber, Founding Director of the Wyss Institute, Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, talks about his article "Mechanobiology and Developmental Control," which he wrote with Tadanori Mammoto and Akiko Mammoto for the 2013 Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Bio...

Dr. Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center at the Salk Institute, talks about his life and career with Dr. Aravinda Chakravarti, Director of the Center for Complex Disease Research at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, part of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and co-Editor of the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. Dr. Bren...

Kathryn L. Mills, of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College of London (UCL), talks about her article "Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?" which she wrote with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, also of UCL, for the 2014 Annual Review of Psychology. In this lecture, Ms. Mills argues that "studies about adolescence should include measures of social influen...

Eric Wieschaus, Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, talks with Bonnie Bassler, his colleague at Princeton and the Editor of the Annual Review of Genetics, about his life and career. Dr. Wieschaus describes his beginnings as a young boy in Alabama, and recounts how his interest in science was sparked by a science camp in Kansas funded by the National Science Foundation wh...

Nevin Scrimshaw, Institute Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Food Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about his life and career with his former student Cutberto Garza, director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Dr. Scrimshaw discusses how he discovered a compound, potassium iodate, that allowed Central American salt to be iodized, thereby prev...

Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Sciences at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, talks about her 2013 article "Making Slaughterhouses More Humane for Cattle, Pigs, and Sheep," which she wrote for the first volume of the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. Dr. Grandin describes the best practices in preslaughter handling, various stunning techniques, and religious slaughter. She also expla...

P. James E. Peebles, Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Emeritus, at Princeton University, talks about his life and career with Sandra Faber, University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Dr. Peebles describes his youth in Winnipeg, Canada. He began his studies at the University of M...

Pierre Joliot-Curie, Professor of Biology at the Collège de France and former Director of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), talks about his life and career with Jean-David Rochaix, Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva. Dr. Joliot-Curie, whose grandparents Pierre and Marie Curie and parents Frédéric Joliot and Irène Curie were all Nobel Prize laureates, discu...

Stephen Bezruchka, Senior Lecturer at the Departments of Health Services and Global Health of the University of Washington in Seattle, talks about his article "The Hurrider I Go the Behinder I Get: The Deteriorating International Ranking of U.S. Health Status," which he wrote for the 2009 Annual Review of Public Health. Using graphics to illustrate his points, Dr. Bezruchka describes how the Unite...

Dr. Thomas P. Tomich, Director and W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at the University of California, Davis, and Committee Member of the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, talks about his article "Agroecology: A Review from a Global-Change Perspective," which he co-wrote with another 15 authors from a variety of disciplines...

Marc Van Montagu, President of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) and former Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Ghent, talks about his life and career with Joanne Chory, Professor of Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Dr. Van Montagu recounts how he went from studying chemistry to discovering the gene transfer mechanism f...

Dr. Roger Guillemin, Distinguished Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Laureate of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, talks about his life and career with Dr. Greg Lemke, Françoise Gilot-Salk Professor at the Salk Institute, for the 2013 Annual Review of Physiology. Dr. Guillemin discusses his childhood and high school education in Dijon, France, and how he and...

Haldor Topsøe was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1913. He studied chemical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). In 1940, he founded the company Haldor Topsøe, which has become one of the most successful companies in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. The company develops and markets catalysts and processes for petroleum refining, air-pollution control, synthesis gas produc...

Dr. Andreas Acrivos, Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, Emeritus, at the Levich Institute located at the City College of New York, talks about his life and career with his former student Dr. Eric S.G. Shaqfeh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering of Stanford University. Born in Greece to an affluent family, his life...

Dr. Kenneth Waltz, Senior Research Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, talks about his life and career with Dr. James Fearon, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and editorial committee member of the Annual Review of Political Science. Dr. Waltz discusses his childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan; his service in the military, which took him to Japan d...

Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, Merck's former Chairman and CEO, talks about his life and career with Dr. Andrew R. Marks, professor at the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and surgeons. Dr. Vagelos went from waiting on Merck employees at his father's luncheonette in New Jersey to joining the pharmaceutical company, where he revolutionized the d...

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Dr. Katherine Belov, Professor of Comparative Genomics at the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Sydney and contributing author of the 2012 Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, talks about her article "A Comparative Genomics Approach to Understanding Transmissible Cancer in Tasmanian Devils," which she co-wrote with Dr. Janine E. Deakin, ARC Future Fellow at the Research S...

Dr. Michael Tomasello, of the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, discusses his article for the 2013 Annual Review of Psychology, titled "Origins of Human Cooperation and Morality." In this video, he shares footage of chimpanzees and of toddlers collaborating, showing that while cooperation exists among other primates, i...

Professor Robert M. Seyfarth discusses social behavior of baboons, including the link between close friendships and longevity. Read the related Annual Review of Psychology review online: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100337

Dr. Donald B. McCormick, Callaway Prof. Emeritus of Biochemistry at the School of Medicine of Emory University in Atlanta, talks about his life and career with Dr. Al Merrill, Professor and Smithgall Chair in Molecular Cell Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dr. Barbara Bowman, Associate Director for Science at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotio...

Karen Strier, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Editorial Committee Member of the Annual Review of Anthropology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her work with the northern muriqui monkeys of Brazil. Dr. Strier studies muriquis as a model of comparison with other primates, and she contributes to conservation efforts as they are one of the world's most criticia...

Karen Strier, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Editorial Committee Member of the Annual Review of Anthropology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her work with the northern muriqui monkeys of Brazil. Dr. Strier studies muriquis as a model of comparison with other primates, and she contributes to conservation efforts as they are one of the world's most criticia...