RALPH A. SORENSEN
Professor of Biology
Gettysburg College
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SO. WHAT'S UP WITH ME THESE DAYS? Busy semester. I'm teaching two meaty courses. The Biological Basis of Disease (aka, Medical School Lite), it is a lab course for non-majors wich I coteach with Steve James. The second is my bread-and-butter course for Biology majors, Cell Biology. Students appreciate but fear the course. Sorry. The cell evolved its complexity without asking me. But, then again, perhaps I am an ogre. The jury is out. Cell students are currently in the midst of individual projects using cultured cancer cells. This semester I am graced with two delightful senior research students. Darcy Bates is studying the ability of dioxins (be careful, Darcy) to induce detoxifying enzymes in cultured cells. Megan Van Kirk is studying the effects of an estrogen mimic on oocyte maturation, with particular regard to the way the chromosomes align of the spindle. The latter project should propel me into my sabbatical next year. From January to summer of 2005, I will be in the laboratory of Professor Ursula Eichenlaub-Ritter at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. We have met only by letter and telephone, but she has been delightfully kind in welcoming me. Judy and I cannot wait. At the college I am still the premedical advisor. In the community, I am current Chairman of the Gettysburg Municipal Authority, a fancy way of describing the Sewer and Water Board ("When you drink, of us you think; when you flush, think of ush.") At night I go to bed and read books. These are the last few I have really enjoyed:
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