In Interview with American Playwright Mark SaFranko

An interview with Mark G. Hans

It is a great honor to conduct an interview with Professor Mark G. Hans, after following his outstanding work ahead of the Bolton-Brush Growth Study Center and the Department of Orthodontics at the prestigious Case Western Reserve School of Dental Medicine (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Berea, Ohio, Professor Mark Hans attended Yale University in New Haven, CT, and earned his Bachelor of Sc...

Irrepressible: An Interview with Mark Ptashne

While winter storms crippled almost every state fromWisconsin to Florida, our own force of nature blew into California in January in the compact human form of Mark Ptashne (Fig 1). Mark, who holds the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Sloan-Kettering in New York, had arrived to give a series of seminars on the West Coast. And if that weren’t enough, he also came prepared for a soirée, with h...

Seizing the White Space: an interview with Mark W. Johnson

What makes opportunities like these so difficult to grasp is that, so often, they require companies to move far beyond their core into uncharted territory – into their white space. That’s a scary place, one where many companies’ experience is (as one CEO put it) “unblemished by success.” But if the danger is all too obvious, its causes are not. The white space is hard to navigate not because it...

Joyce the Playwright

JALDA's Interview with Peter Mühlhäusler

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...