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Andrew Liao, oral history interview, ca. 1980
No full textThis recording forms part of a collection of oral history interviews donated by Dr. Edward Chen to the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. It includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans living in Houston.Andrew Liao, interviewed by Daisy Chan Gee, ca. 198
Allen Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Dr. Allen Gee, currently the Donald L. Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing in Columbus State University, was born in 1962 in Astoria, a mixed ethnic neighborhood in Queens, New York. He grew up with a family background of restaurant owners (his grandfather) and laundry owners (his mother’s side), which are stereotypical Asian immigrant jobs. However, on the contrary, Gee’s father, who was an engineer, is not a stereotypical Asian in many ways. He founded the Gee Family Association and is a vocal, romantic, and unconventional person who doesn’t hold himself back, and is a life explorer. The family bond and mindset became a major component in Gee’s personal values. As an athlete in high school, Gee later became a voracious reader and writer in college. Throughout his career, he had a number of mentors, among which most notably, the late James Alan McPherson, who Gee is now the designated biographer for. He earned a BA in Secondary English Teaching at the University of New Hampshire. He studied for his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he met McPherson. Gee earned his PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Houston. He is married to the novelist Renee Dodd, and has two daughters, Ashley and Willa. He’s the author of the essay collection, “My Chinese-America,” for which he was awarded the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. He is currently completing a novel, “The Iron Road” that chronicles the lives of Chinese railroad workers building the Central Pacific Line in 1866; as well as "That Little Marcella", a novel; and “Multicultural Americana,” which is the working title for the upcoming collection of essays. Gee is planning to work for another 7 years until retirement at 65
Centre story: conversations with virtuoso young conductors; Andrew Gourlay and Jamie Phillips
No full textThis article discusses the lives and careers of two eminent young orchestral conductors, Andrew Gourlay and Jamie Phillips
Author and artist George Gee. Flutters from Side Street Volume One.
No full textIn 1992, George Gee and his wife Deborah Seaton opened Side Street Espresso, on G Street in downtown Anchorage. Soon the daily white boards for the cafe mirrored the intensity of contemporary American culture with social and political caricatures and commentary. Whereas George would erase each board at the end of the day, starting in 1997, he began to preserve the artwork, which resulted in the book, Flutters from Side Street: Volume One, Dry Erase Drawings, Social and Political Commentary, and Reflections From A Morning Walk To Work. The book is an amazing collection of dry erase drawings that highlight pieces of Anchorage and American history
Pinder, Andrew: transcript of an audio interview (10-Nov-2016)
No full textInterview with Dr Andrew Pinder, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 10 November 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey. The project management and technical support were undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Dr Andrew Pinder MA PhD CEng MIET CPhys MInstP FRSA (b. 1953) graduated in physics from the University of Oxford in 1974. After a short period in industry, he joined the scientific staff of the Engineering Department at the NIMR in 1978, where he worked on projects ranging from eardrum vibration measurement to high-speed cell sorting and laser spectroscopy, obtaining a PhD (in collaboration with University College London) in 1983. He moved to the BBSRC Institute of Food Research in Norwich in 1985 as Senior Research Leader of the laser and imaging group in the Biophysics Department. Increasingly drawn towards communicating science to the general public, he received awards for this work from the Royal Society, the British Association, and the British Council. In 1999, with the opportunity to produce a series on cell biology for BBC2 ('Cell City'), he finally left research and started his own production company. He has since made programmes for all four major UK broadcasters, together with Teachers’ TV and many Government and corporate clients. In 2000 he received an RS/BA Millennium Fellowship.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Pinder, Andrew: transcript of a video interview (10-Nov-2016)
No full textInterview with Dr Andrew Pinder, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 10 November 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey. The project management and the technical support were undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Dr Andrew Pinder MA PhD CEng MIET CPhys MInstP FRSA (b. 1953) graduated in physics from the University of Oxford in 1974. After a short period in industry, he joined the scientific staff of the Engineering Department at the NIMR in 1978, where he worked on projects ranging from eardrum vibration measurement to high-speed cell sorting and laser spectroscopy, obtaining a PhD (in collaboration with University College London) in 1983. He moved to the BBSRC Institute of Food Research in Norwich in 1985 as Senior Research Leader of the laser and imaging group in the Biophysics Department. Increasingly drawn towards communicating science to the general public, he received awards for this work from the Royal Society, the British Association, and the British Council. In 1999, with the opportunity to produce a series on cell biology for BBC2 ('Cell City'), he finally left research and started his own production company. He has since made programmes for all four major UK broadcasters, together with Teachers’ TV and many Government and corporate clients. In 2000 he received an RS/BA Millennium Fellowship.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Nunn, Andrew: transcript of a video interview (09-Aug-2016)
No full textInterview with Professor Andrew Nunn, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 09 August 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Mrs Sarah Beanland. The project management and the technical support (filming and production) were undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Professor Andrew Nunn (b. 1943) has been working in clinical trials and epidemiological research since 1966, when he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Tuberculosis & Chest Diseases Unit as a Statistician, becoming Senior Statistician in 1972. Until 1986 he was directly involved in the design, conduct and analysis of the programme of trials conducted under the leadership of Professors Wallace Fox and Denny Mitchison in East Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore, which led to the worldwide adoption of short-course chemotherapy for tuberculosis (TB). Following the closure of that Unit he joined the MRC’s Uganda AIDS Programme which researched the dynamics of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in a rural African environment. On his return to the UK, he became Head of the Division Without Portfolio within the newly formed MRC Clinical Trials Unit with responsibility for developing trials in neglected areas. He was Senior Statistician on the recently completed REMoxTB and RIFAQUIN trials. Currently, he is an Investigator and Senior Statistician on three international phase 3 trials of TB treatment, one of which, STREAM, he is Co-Chief Investigator, the first phase 3 trial in multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Nunn, Andrew: transcript of an audio interview (09-Aug-2016)
No full textInterview with Professor Andrew Nunn, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 09 August 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Mrs Sarah Beanland. The project management and the technical support were undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Professor Andrew Nunn (b. 1943) has been working in clinical trials and epidemiological research since 1966, when he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Tuberculosis & Chest Diseases Unit as a Statistician, becoming Senior Statistician in 1972. Until 1986 he was directly involved in the design, conduct and analysis of the programme of trials conducted under the leadership of Professors Wallace Fox and Denny Mitchison in East Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore, which led to the worldwide adoption of short-course chemotherapy for tuberculosis (TB). Following the closure of that Unit he joined the MRC’s Uganda AIDS Programme which researched the dynamics of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in a rural African environment. On his return to the UK, he became Head of the Division Without Portfolio within the newly formed MRC Clinical Trials Unit with responsibility for developing trials in neglected areas. He was Senior Statistician on the recently completed REMoxTB and RIFAQUIN trials. Currently, he is an Investigator and Senior Statistician on three international phase 3 trials of TB treatment, one of which, STREAM, he is Co-Chief Investigator, the first phase 3 trial in multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Beyond the blue: the sorrowful joy of Gee
No full textBook synopsis: The relationship between writer and reader, an unnerving intimacy with a total stranger, remains mysterious. Writing, my body is the locus of illusions that for me, in that moment, are real: scenes, faces, landscapes, flash before my eyes as I record them. My web of words, by now drained of sound and colour, is transmitted to a publisher. (Maggie Gee, Foreword)
It is a risky business holding an academic conference, and publishing a collection of academic essays, on Maggie Gee. For Gee is a satirist of the most unflinching kind, and literary scholars and their conferences are mocked throughout her work. Take, for example, Gee's most recent novel, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014). Woolf – accidentally resurrected from the dead by contemporary writer Angela Lamb – learns that Angela is to attend a Woolf conference in Istanbul and is eager to go along with her. Angela has her doubts: 'I can hardly take her to her own conference', she writes to her daughter, Gerda; 'why not?,' thinks Gerda, in reply: 'Wouldn't it be helpful to have the actual writer telling all the academics and people like my mother where they are gong wrong? Surely it would be good for them' . Gee has a longstanding interest in the role of the author, since her doctoral thesis on self-conscious authors in Nabokov, Beckett and Woolf. Her first published novel Dying, in Other Words (1981), plays out that interest through fiction, in a postmodern self-conscious experimental reflection on the role of the author; her most recent novel addresses the same ideas through two author characters: the contemporary writer Angela Lamb, and the resurrected dead Woolf. This miraculous resurrection provides playful opportunity for further reflection on Roland Barthes's idea of 'the death of the author', a theoretical concept on which Gee wrote in her doctoral thesis.
Through our conversations with Gee – both at the conference and in correspondence throughout the years in which this collection has been brought together – we the editors, and our contributors, have no doubt that whilst an author may indeed not know everything about their work, the idea of intentionality is not entirely fallacious. Gee is a clever, careful writer, as well as a skilled scholar (even though she did not choose that path); she knows what she is doing when she is writing and she knows what she intends. At the same time, of course, she is under no illusion that when her fictional work ventures into the world, it will be interpreted in various and different ways
Campanile Plaque for Edward Gee Miller
No full textA photo of a plaque for Edward Gee Miller 1840 - 1906 that reads Loyal citizen, ardent patriot, zealous ally of education, senator from Black Hawk County, 15th and 16th General Assemblies, author of bill passed, March 14th 1876, Establishing the Iowa State Normal School .https://scholarworks.uni.edu/uniphotos/2297/thumbnail.jp
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