Since 1980 I have been on the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine, achieving the rank of Professor of Environmental Medicine in 1992 with a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine since 1994. Although some early post-Stony Brook research in radiological health built on my training in experimental nuclear physics (under David Fossan’s outstanding mentoring), I eventually found my passion in the field of epidemiology, the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in populations. In 1981 I was part of the team at NYU that first identified and reported to the Centers for Disease Control the unusual occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma among young homosexual men. This is now known to be one of the manifestations of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). I have been working primarily on HIV/AIDS ever since. It has been fascinating to participate in efforts to describe, understand and hopefully control a newly emerging disease of such importance. Currently I am principal investigator at NYU on two randomized clinical trials of HIV vaccines, several epidemiologic investigations of HIV, and a study of tuberculosis.

My physics training has served me well, despite hardly having cracked a physics book since leaving Stony Brook in 1971. My years at Stony Brook also were extraordinarily important because it was there I met Gloria Strauss, then a psychology graduate student. Gloria and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary on June 11^th with our two boys, aged 11 and 13 years. We live in Port Washington, Long Island, where Gloria practices clinical psychology.

My single greatest loss in leaving physics was any professional reason for contact with graduate student colleagues and faculty from Stony Brook since I stopped attending physics meetings. Stony Brook was a challenging and wonderful period in my life. I would be happy to hear from others (e-mail: michael.marmor@med.nyu.edu) and look forward to the June 2000 reunion. (Advisor: David Fossan)

Dr. Bedell is a Rourke Professor of Physics and Chair at Boston College as well as a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1993. Before going to Boston College, he was a staff member of the theoretical division at Los Alamos from 1986-1996. (Advisor: Gerald Brown)

I am an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. I received my Ph.D. in 1986 with G. E. Brown as my advisor. Then I went to Germany to Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg as a postdoc. After that, I returned to Zagreb, my home town, to the Physics Department of Rudjer Boskovic Institute. During the period spent there, my research interests gradually turned towards what is still their present focus, namely the Schwinger-Dyson studies of mesons. At that time, I got married and by now have three children. Also, Yugoslavia fell apart during that period and Croatia became independent.

I have been visiting Stony Brook occasionally - in 1990, 1992, 1994 and now in 1999. Each time I was glad to see Stony Brook University advancing in every respect.

from the classes of 1983 and 1984, respectively, write that Mubina is involved in clinical and research work in the treatment of cancer patients using radiation at the University of Pittsburgh. Khandker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Kent State University working in condensed matter physics. His current research areas include correlated electron systems, pairing studies at varying densities, BCS-BE pairing in 2D; high-TC superconductivity and general phase transitions. (Advisors: David Fossan, Gerald Brown)
 
 

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