William (“Bill”) Harding Helm

Big Bad Bill is sweet William now.

William "Bill" Back: an incisive geochemist and a great mentor.

Introduction William ‘‘Bill’’ Back (Figure 1) was one of the great ‘‘idea people’’ in low-temperature geochemistry during the blossoming of ground water hydrology in the latter half of the twentieth century. Prior to the1950s, most of the research in ground water chemistry was related to water quality and was carried out by chemists who rarely ventured into the field. Bill, Ivan Barnes, Bruce H...

Demagogues at the helm.

Amazing, mind-boggling, incomprehensible, indefensible. The decision by the Federal Government to abolish the mandatory long-form of the census may be the worst policy decision of the past decade in Canada. The impact of this decision, if it is not reversed, will be felt for many years to come and, if it remains in effect over other census cycles or if it is a harbinger of things to come, could...

At the helm of the NIDDK.

As of April 2007, Griffin P. Rodgers has taken over as director of the NIDDK, but had been the deputy director under Allen Spiegel since 2001 and the chief of Hematology since 1998. The JCI took the opportunity to ask this career investigator in the NIH about his goals and visions for the NIDDK. JCI: You moved quickly from chief of Hematology to deputy director of the NIDDK to director — what d...

Recipient of the 2014 IETS Pioneer Award: William W. (Bill) Thatcher, MS, PhD.

Dr William W. Thatcher is a native of Baltimore-Perry Hall, Maryland. He developed a love for livestock when he spent part of his summers as a boy on his grandfather’s dairy farm. Dr Thatcher received his BS degree in Animal Husbandry from the University of Maryland in 1963, the MS degree from the University of Maryland under the direction of C. A. Kiddy in 1965, and the PhD degree in 1968 from...