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Click here to see a list of current McDonnell Academy Scholars McDonnell International Scholars Academy Ambassadors Each scholar in the McDonnell Academy is paired with an Ambassador, appointed by the Academy director, who serves as a mentor and assists in the Scholar's academic and professional life at Washington University. Each mentor is also an Ambassador to the Scholar's alma mater and country, responsible for building relationships with the partner university, and with alumni, friends, corporations, and government entities in that country. The Ambassador accompanies the Scholar on a one-week annual trip to the Scholar's university to host alumni events, information sessions, and meetings with key university contacts. The Ambassador also identifies opportunities for scholarly collaboration involving other faculty and students of Washington University and of the partner research university.
Ahmet T. Karamustafa is professor of history and religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His expertise is in social and intellectual history of premodern Islam as well as in theory and method in the study of religion. He earned his B.A. in philosophy at Hamilton College and M.A. and Ph.D in Islamic studies at McGill University. He is the author of God's Unruly Friends (University of Utah Press, 1994), a book on ascetic movements in medieval Islam, and Vahidi's Menakib-i Hvoca-i Cihan ve Netice-i Can (The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1993), a study of a sixteenth-century mystical text. He also served as an editor for, and wrote several articles in, Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies (University of Chicago Press, 1992). More recently, he completed a comprehensive historical overview of early Islamic mysticism titled Sufism: The Formative Period (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). At Washington University, Karamustafa has held several administrative positions, including a five-year term as director of the Religious Studies Program. Currently, he is the vice-president of the American Research Institute in Turkey and a member of the Steering Committee of the Study of Islam Section at the American Academy of Religion.
Ralph S. Quatrano is the Spencer T. Olin Professor and chairman of the Department of Biology at Washington University. He assumed the chair of the executive council of the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in July 2005. Professor Quatrano received his undergraduate degree from Colgate University and a Ph.D. in biology from Yale University. He then held positions at Oregon State University, Dupont's Central Research and Development Department in Wilmington, DE, and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill before joining the faculty at Washington University in 1998. Professor Quatrano's research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling how plants develop, especially how they respond to stress. He has served as the editor-in-chief of The Plant Cell (1998–2003) and on the board of reviewing editors for Science from 1991–1998. He has been a member of several boards of plant science based companies, has received several awards for outstanding teaching, and has mentored over 40 students. He is the author of over 140 research articles and routinely presents his findings at major national and international meetings. The president of the Chinese Agricultural University (Dr. Zhangliang Chen) is a long time friend, having shared similar research interests in plant and agricultural sciences.
Frank C-P Yin is the Stephen F. and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University. Professor Yin was born in Kunming, China, came to the U.S. as a child, and subsequently received a B.S. and M.S. in aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then went to the University of California–San Diego where he received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in bioengineering. Professor Yin was a clinical associate at the National Institutes of Health and then joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine before joining the faculty at Washington University in 1997. His research focuses on biomechanics, cell mechanics, and cardiovascular physiology. He has published widely on these and related topics and has held several positions in professional organizations including chair of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, board member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, national advisory council member of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging Bioengineering, and president of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Sándor J. Kovács is Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology and Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics at Washington University. He received his B.S. in analytical engineering at Cornell University, and he studied theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in 1977. He received his M.D. from the University of Miami in 1979. Following his internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, he joined the Department of Internal Medicine at Washington University as a member of the Cardiovascular Division. Professor Kovács is Director of the Cardiovascular Biophysics Laboratory which he founded in 1990. His research focuses on theoretical and applied problems in human cardiovascular physiology and biophysics using physical principles. He has published extensively in these areas and has served on numerous NIH, AHA, and other panels. He is the president of the Cardiovascular System Dynamics Society, an international society of cardiovascular physiologists and academic cardiologists. His research has been supported by the NIH, Veterans Administration, AHA, The Whitaker Foundation, The Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation and the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Charitable Trust. Professor Kovács was born in Hungary, he and his family escaped after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, eventually arriving in New York City.
Matthew James Ellis is Associate Professor of Medical Oncology in the Siteman Cancer Center, Department of Medicine at Washington University in St Louis. After obtaining his medical degree at Cambridge University and PhD at the University of London, Dr Ellis completed his professional training at hospitals in the UK and USA. He has received American Board of Internal Medicine certification in Medical Oncology. Dr Ellis' primary research interests include the identification of genes that affect responses and resistance to endocrine therapy in patients with breast cancer. Dr Ellis is an elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London; he is Vice Chair for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B Breast Cancer Committee and holds the Anheuser Busch Chair in Medical Oncology at Barnes Jewish Hospital. In addition, Dr Ellis is Chair of the Medical Oncology Committee for the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. He is also a member of several National Cancer Institute review panels, journal editorial committees and advisory boards, and has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well as authoring over 20 book chapters and review articles in oncology. Dr. Ellis travels frequently to Brazil, where he has both professional and family ties.
Yoram Rudy is the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Director of the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC) at Washington University. He is a professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology & Physiology, Medicine, Radiology, and Pediatrics. Professor Rudy earned a B.Sc. degree in 1970 from the Department of Physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He continued his studies at the Technion, receiving his M.Sc. degree in 1973. That same year, he came to the U.S. and entered the Ph.D. program in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, from which he graduated in 1978. He remained on the faculty of that department until his move to Washington University in 2004. Professor Rudy's research focuses on the electrophysiology of the heart, in particular on the mechanisms of cardiac rhythm disorders and on the development of noninvasive imaging modalities for detecting and diagnosing such disorders. He has published widely on these and related topics and served on various NIH advisory committees and in leadership positions of professional societies in his field. Professor Rudy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of a Merit Award from the NIH-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Itai Sened is a professor and also the Director of the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences (CNISS) at Washington University. He received a B.A. in 1986 from Tel Aviv University in political science and philosophy, an M.A. in political science from the University of Rochester in 1989, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester in 1990. In 1995 he was promoted to senior lecturer with tenure in Political Science at Tel Aviv University while maintaining a regular visiting scholar position at Washington University. In 1997 he moved permanently to Washington University, where he has pursued his research interests in comparative theory of institutions, game theory, and applied mathematical modeling. His first book, The Political Institution of Private Property, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997, and in 2001 his second book, Political Bargaining: Theory, Practice and Process, co-authored with Gideon Doron, was published by Sage Publication. In addition, he has published extensively in journals in political science and related disciplines. In 1995 he co-edited Explaining Social Institutions with Jack Knight at the University of Michigan Press. His latest book, Multiparty Democracy, co-authored with Norman Schofield, is currently in print with Cambridge University Press. Professor Sened has extensive ties with IDC Herzliya and was instrumental in establishing it as a partner institution for the McDonnell Academy.
Ping Wang is the Seigle Family Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University and the chair of the Department of Economics. He received his B.S. in ocean transportation from the National Chao Tung University in the Republic of China (R.O.C.). He holds masters degrees in economics from National Chengchi University (R.O.C.) and from the University of Rochester, and his Ph.D. in economics was awarded by the University of Rochester in 1987. Professor Wang has held faculty positions at Pennsylvania State University and Vanderbilt University in economics, where he was chair of the Department of Economics from 2002–2005. Professor Wang's research areas include money and macroeconomics, growth and development, and spatial/health economics. Since 2001, Professor Wang has served as research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles has co-edited a book and contributed to seven other volumes. He has held visiting positions at several domestic and international universities and research institutes.
Stephen Legomsky is the John. S. Lehmann University Professor in the School of Law at Washington University. He has a B.S. in mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a J.D. from the University of San Diego–Day Division (first in his class), and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Professor Legomsky's research focuses on the law of immigration and refugees. His book Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy, now in its fourth edition, has been the required text for immigration courses at 157 U.S. law schools. Two of his other books have been published by the Oxford University Press. Legomsky has chaired several national immigration and refugee committees, has testified before Congress, and has been a consultant to President Clinton's transition team, President George H.W. Bush's commissioner of immigration, the UN high commissioner for refugees, and various foreign governments. He has had visiting teaching or research appointments at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and in the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Australia, and Suriname. Professor Legomsky was the 2005 winner of the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award given annually to one member of the Washington University faculty.
John Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his B.A. from Stanford University, did graduate studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Professor Bowen studies problems of pluralism, law, and religion, and in particular contemporary efforts to rethink Islamic norms and law in Asia, Europe, and North America. His long-term fieldwork has been in Indonesia, particularly in Aceh, and is most recently reflected in his book Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning (Cambridge, 2003). His book on Islam and the state in France, Why the French Don't Like Headscarves, will appear from Princeton in October 2006. He has held several positions in professional organizations including: associate editor of American Anthropologist, president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, and member of the editorial board of Studia Islamika (Jakarta). Professor Bowen has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, received the Herbert Jacobs Book Prize from the Law & Society Association, and is currently a Carnegie Scholar.
Pratim Biswas is the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor and Chairman of the Department of Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering at Washington University. He received his B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in mechanical engineering, his M.S. degree from the University of California–Los Angeles, and his doctoral degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1985. His research interests are in aerosol science and technology, nanoparticle technology, environmental nanotechnology, air quality and pollution control, environmentally benign energy production, and environmental science and engineering, and he has published more than 200 papers in his field. Professor Biswas has served on several national committees and was the conference chair for the 15th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Aerosol Research and chair of the Critical Review Committee of the Air and Waste Management Association. He has also served on the board of directors of the American Association for Aerosol Research and was the treasurer, and an associate editor of the Aerosol Science and Technology Journal. In 2006-2007, he will serve as the president of the American Association for Aerosol Research. Professor Biswas has had continual interactions with faculty in IIT Bombay, and one of his doctoral graduates is now a faculty member there.
Gautam N. Yadama is an associate professor and director of International Programs at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. His research has addressed issues related to poverty, the role of nongovernmental organizations in sustainable development, and governance of common pool resources. He has researched issues of community and development in India, Nepal, China and Bhutan. He also worked in Thailand in 1986 at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI). At CUSRI he was part of a research team surveying incentives and disincentives faced by rural Thai farmers holding different types of land titles. He was a Fublright Scholar in Nepal in 2000–2001, where he conducted field research to understand factors that explain variations in collective action to supply public goods in resource scarce urban neighborhoods. His particular interests are in understanding how communities partner with the state to supply and manage public goods for the benefit of the poor and marginalized. He has consulted with several international agencies and foundations including the United Nations Development Program, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Bank, Save the Children-UK, and the Open Society Institute.
Himadri B. Pakrasi is the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology at the School of Arts & Sciences, professor of energy at the School of Engineering & Applied Science and Director of The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES). He was born in Calcutta, India, and received undergraduate and graduate training in physics at the Presidency College and University of Calcutta. He came to the U.S. to study biology and received a doctorate at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1984. He has been on the faculty of Washington University since 1987. Pakrasi is a biochemist recognized for his work on photosynthesis and, in particular, on membrane protein complexes in cyanobacteria and plant chloroplasts. He has a keen interest in bridging the differences between the biological and physical sciences, and leads large-scale multi-institutional systems biology projects. He currently directs Washington University's effort to develop groundbreaking initiatives in the area of bioenergy. Pakrasi has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Munich University, Germany; a Distinguished Fellow at the Biosciences Institute, Nagoya University, Japan; and a Lady David Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University, where he is director of the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program and of the Center for Programs. Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1967, Dr. Bermúdez received his BA in 1988 and his PhD in 1992, both from the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Washington University in St Louis he was Professor and Chair of the Philosophy department at the University of Stirling, UK. Dr. Bermúdez's research interests are primarily in interdisciplinary philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology. Topics of recent interest include the nature of mental content, models of psychological explanation, the role and origins of self-consciousness and the possibility of thought without language. He has over 100 publications, including the following books: The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT, 1998), Thinking Without Words (Oxford, 2003), Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 2005), and Rationality and the Theory of Choice (Oxford, forthcoming). Professor Bermúdez is currently writing a textbook on cognitive science for Cambridge University Press. Dr. Bermúdez will be a Visiting Professor at the University of Chile in July 2007 and looks forward to helping promote collaborative research and teaching across these two leading universities.
Charles R. McManis is the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Program at Washington University. He received his B.A. degree from Birmingham-Southern College in 1964, and both his M.A. (in Philosophy) and J.D. degrees from Duke University in 1972. Professor McManis has been a frequent visiting lecturer and paper presenter at universities and academic conferences throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, and in South America. During 1993 and 1994, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Korea, where he lectured and conducted research at the International Intellectual Property Training Institute in Taejon. He has served as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization, in India, Korea, and Oman, and in 2002 he presented a paper at a Joint WIPO/UPOV Symposium, on the Co-existence of Patents and Plant Breeders' Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland. Professor McManis' book, Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition in a Nutshell , is now in its fifth edition. He is also co-author of Licensing Intellectual Property in the Information Age , the second edition of which was published in 2005 by Carolina Academic Press. He is also the editor of a multi-authored volume, entitled Biodiversity and the Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge (Earthscan/James & James 2007).
Paul S. Min is Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his B.S. (1982), M.S. (1984), and Ph.D.(1987) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research interests are in high performance computing and communication, packet switching, Internet security, and network management. He has published more than 100 technical papers and holds nine US. patents. He is active internationally, organizing and participating in many conferences, journals, and symposia. In his native country of Korea, he was the leading technical author in one of the two winning proposals for the wireless services license in 1996. He has collaborated with several top technology organizations in Korea including the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, and the Ministry of Information and Communication.
K. Daniel Riew is the Mildred B. Simon Distinguished Professor and Chief of Cervical Spine Surgery in the department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Medical School at Washington University. He has a joint appointment as Professor of Neurological Surgery. He immigrated to this country from Korea with his family in 1966, when he was 7 years old. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College (AB,1980) and his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University (1984). He has board certification both in Internal Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery. He has published extensively and has won numerous research awards. His current research interest focuses on artificial cervical disc replacements. He joined the faculty at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 1995. In 2006, he established the Orthopedic-Rehab Institute for Cervical Spine Surgery, exclusively dedicated to treating cervical spine disorders. He lectures extensively worldwide and has been a visiting professor both nationally and internationally. He is recognized in the Best Doctors in America, America's Top Doctors, and America's Top Orthopedists lists. He and his wife, Mary, have three children (two boys and a girl), and a Maltipoo dog.
James T. Little is professor of finance and economics in the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University. He received a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He served on the faculty of the Department of Economics from 1971–1982 and then joined the faculty of the Olin School. From 1983–1989, he served as associate dean for academic affairs. He is academic director of the Olin School's EMBA, both in St. Louis and in Shanghai, and directs the school's London summer program in international finance. Professor Little's current research interests include the implications of globalization for corporate strategies, the economies of the European Union and China, and regulation of insurance companies. In 2002, Professor Little received a Distinguished Faculty Award from the Alumni Association of Washington University. His extensive experience as a lecturer in executive programs includes teaching in China as well as lectures in Europe. Professor Little is also a director and member of the executive committee of Millers First Insurance Companies and has served on the boards of several civic and not-for-profit institutions.
Michael Sherraden is Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and founding director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. Sherraden was educated at Harvard (AB, 1970) and the University of Michigan (MSW, 1976; PhD, 1979). Professor Sherraden has played a central role in articulating the notion of asset-based development, which suggests that policy and programs should promote not merely income and consumption, but also savings and investment. Professor Sherraden has received many awards, including the Distinguished Faculty Award from Washington University (1994) and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Social Work, University of Michigan (2002). His ideas have been presented in Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy (1991), Alternatives to Social Security: An International Inquiry (1997, with James Midgley), and Inclusion in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy (2005). Professor Sherraden has also studied, organized international conferences, and helped write legislation for national and community service, efforts that are reflected in Civic Service Worldwide: Impacts and Inquiry (2006, with Amanda Moore McBride). In 1992–1993 Sherraden was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, where he continues to have strong academic ties and warm friendships.
Tuan-Hua David Ho is a professor in the Plant Biology, Developmental Biology, and Molecular Genetics Programs of the Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University. He received his bachelor's degree in botany from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Michigan State University. Professor Ho joined the faculty at Washington University in 1984 as an associate professor and has served as the associate chair of the Department of Biology. From 2004–2007 he has been on leave from Washington University and appointed distinguished research fellow and director of the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology for Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. He will rejoin the Department of Biology in January 2008 as a professor of biology. Professor Ho studies the hormonal control of seed germination, in particular, the role of hormones in allowing plants to be resistant to environmental stresses such as drought and cold. He studies the regulation of genes that play a role in stress responses in plants, and in mediating stress tolerance. He is an academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and a fellow, TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.
Shirley Dyke is the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Civil Engineering at Washington University. She received a B.S. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1991 and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1996. Her main research interests lie in the areas of earthquake engineering, structural control, and structural health monitoring. Professor Dyke established the Washington University Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory in 1997. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Vibration and Acoustic of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and chair of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Education Outreach and Training Committee. She has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1998), the Junior Research Award by the International Association on Structural Safety and Reliability (2001), and the Outstanding Alumna Award for the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the University of Illinois (2005). Professor Dyke has been a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo in both 1998 and 2003.
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