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Virginia Walbot
Fifth generation Californian Virginia Walbot is a professor of biology at Stanford University. She holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford, a doctoral degree from Yale University, and was the first woman to earn tenure in the biological sciences at Stanford in this post World War II era. Walbot is also one of the most distinguished scientists on the Plant Sciences Institute board.
Bassham, seated center left, is flanked by Dickerson, Wurtele and their Meta!Blast team.
Diane Bassham's accent is definitely British, but there is something different in her brogue-like lilt. Bassham, associate professor of genetics, development and cell biology, grew up on the northeast coast of England in a more than 800-year-old village called Thorngumbald, where a distinctive regional accent abounds.
Jacqueline Shanks
Jacqueline Shanks, Manley R. Hoppe professor of chemical engineering is listing deadlines while packing up for a meeting in Washington, DC. There are recommendation letters due, promotion and tenure committee documents to assess, papers to write and research results to analyze. And there is child care to arrange.
