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- Seagull, who joined the department in 1971, recalls the shift of the medical school to a four-year program and talks about the school's multidisciplinary approach to community medicine, the collegiality of the early faculty, and their innovative approaches to teaching and patient care. She says the department grew very rapidly and that the University encouraged faculty to be innovative. She also describes efforts to recruit minority and female students and trying to make the male dominated culture more sensitive to female students and residents. Retired department administrator and faculty member Dr. David J. Kallen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, conducts the interview. Part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Curtis, a trained nurse, followed her husband to MSU, moved into married housing, and describes being recruited to teach part-time in the MSU School of Nursing. She talks about her involvement with many projects and initiatives, her influence on the nursing program at MSU, her development of an ethics curriculum for medical professionals, and her position as the University Ombudsman from 1991 until her retirement in 1999.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-06-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sister Betty Gaiss discusses her experiences teaching medical ethics in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development within the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. Gaiss recalls her life as a Dominican nun, teaching high school, and her interest in philosophy and ethics. She recalls coming to work at MSU in 1974, techniques she used to train physicians in ethical considerations, making rounds, and the value of being in contact with patients while learning and teaching ethics. She speaks fondly of about leaving MSU for another position, teaching ethics at Lansing Community College for 25 years, working with community groups, teaching care and ethics to clergy, cancer patients, and families, and helping found Hospice of Lansing. She speaks fondly of Pediatrics and Human Development and says that her experiences in the department led to many other opportunities in her life. Retired department faculty member Dr. David J. Kallen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, conducts the interview. Part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Howard Brody discusses his career as a physician, Professor in the Department of Family Practice at Michigan State University, and Director of MSU's Center for Ethics and the Humanities. Brody also describes pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy while in medical school, his early research, how he began to specialize in teaching medical ethics, Olin Health Center as MSU's early college hospital, moving to the new Life Sciences building, his residency in Virginia, and the creation of the Center for Ethics and the Humanities. MSU Professor Emeritus David J. Kallen conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Prescott describes many of the challenges the profession and the MVMA faced during his tenure, including mandatory continuing education for veterinarians and a failed attempt to develop an accreditation program. He also talks about some of the people with whom he served, including the first woman president of the association, Mary Beth Leininger, the ever increasing number of female veterinarians, the close ties between the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the MVMA, tracking legislation which could have an unintended impact on veterinarians, and dealing with animal welfare laws. The interviewer is Dr. Jan Krehbiel, MSU Professor of Veterinary Medicine Emeritus, for the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association oral histories.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-09-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ralph Gordon discusses his career as a physician, professor, researcher, and administrator, much of it spent in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University. He talks about coming to teach at MSU in 1972, leaving to help start a medical school in Texas and later working in Saginaw, Flint, and Kalamazoo while maintaining a relationship with MSU. Gordon says that medical training is moving to a trade school model rather than being an academic endeavor and that MSU's mission to produce primary care physicians is in direct conflict with the creation of the new MSU research institute in Grand Rapids. He also talks about his interest in medical history and his activities in retirement. MSU Sociology Professor Emeritus Dr. David J. Kallen conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-05-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In a wide-ranging oral history interview, centenarian Selma Hollander talks about coming to East Lansing in 1958 with her husband Stanley Hollander, a newly hired Michigan State University business professor. In order to remain active, Hollander says that she pursued her love of art by first earning a bachelor's degree and later a masters' at MSU. Hollander says that she and her husband were always avid supporters of the arts and attended every concert and gallery presentation on campus and that from their earliest days in East Lannsing, they were financial supporters of MSU in many different areas including art, music, Jewish studies, and museums. She says that she and her husband funded more than a dozen endowments at MSU and she speaks with particular pride about their work in the creation and support of Michigan State University' Wharton Performing Arts Center. Hollander says that her life has been intimately intertwined with MSU and that the University gave her and her husband a place to enjoy a meaningful and exciting life. The second of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Deborah Wagenaar DO, MS, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry, talks about her career at MSU, specializing in geriatric psychiatry, and working with older adults and their multiple medical problems. Wagenaar says she was born and raised in Southeast Michigan and did her undergrad at Wayne State University. She describes the work environment in the College as "feeling like home." Wagenaar says she was initially reluctant to pursue psychiatry but it grew on her over time. She says she has a goal of inspiring students to pursue geriatric psychiatry as a specialty and recommends exposing students to older patients early in their education. Wagenaar talks about the current state of psychiatric education and how the neurosciences are likely to change the field. She talks about some of the advances in the field for treating depression, dementia, and other maladies.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the first of a two part interview, Dr. Walter Adams, former interim president of Michigan State University and professor of economics, talks about his life and career teaching economics at MSU, and his involvement with the MSU School of Labor and Industrial Relations. Adams describes what interested him about economics and how the Great Depression, as well as the rise of fascism and totalitarianism, influenced his thinking. He talks about accepting a position at Michigan State College in 1947, his impressions of his fellow faculty, living in faculty housing, books he has written, the arrival on campus of Professor Charles "Lash" Larrowe in the mid 1950s, the power and influence of business at the university through the years, his run-ins with MSU President John Hannah, efforts to unionize the faculty at the university, and controversies around publishing faculty salaries, and ROTC on campus. Adams is interviewed by MSU Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-07-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Wickert talks about his childhood in Chicago, obtaining a Psychology degree from UCLA in 1933 and a graduate degree form the University of Chicago. He shares work experiences and comments on the Hawthorne experiments at Western Electric. Wickert served as a replacement-training officer during World War II and joined the Psychology Department at MSU in 1947. He joined the Management School in 1960 developing organizational psychology programs around the world in cooperation with the State Department, Peace Corp and MSU international outreach efforts.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-05-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection