Acknowledgments

The CELS program gratefully acknowledges the Exxon Education Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and CELS member organizations for generous financial support. The CELS advisors and staff are indebted to the encouragement and trust inherent in their support.

We thank Dr. Samuel Ward for supplying the inspiration for the monograph frontispiece through his presentation of the faculty-scholar concept at the 1997 CELS Steering Committee meeting. We thank Ms. Ellen Dudley, senior graphic designer at the University of Wisconsin, for the frontispiece illustration, which conveys a complex message with little narrative. Mr. Joseph Rossmeissl, editorial consultant, and Ms. Julie Schroeder, graphic artist, at the University of Wisconsin deserve our warmest thanks for the expert care that they contributed to each page of this monograph. We thank Mr. Brian Gettler for his diligence in compiling the extensive information in the appendices and Ms. Jennifer Djupstrom for collecting the photographs. Dr. Ching Kung contributed the wei ji calligraph, and we applaud his scholarship in more than the life sciences.

We thank the education committee chairs and headquarters staff members of dozens of professional societies who supplied information for this monograph. We thank the photographers, professional societies, and academic institutions that have provided photographs and the individuals who have given permission for their use in our monograph. Throughout the development of this monograph, we have been fortunate to work with many people who have been gracious and thoughtful in their suggestions. We hope that this monograph will continue our conversations.

Louise W. Liao, editor
Robert A. Bloodgood, monograph advisor
John R. Jungck, monograph advisor
Susan R. Singer, monograph advisor