Lawrence Wiseman

Professor and Chair of Biology, Emeritus

College of William and Mary

Visiting Professor of Biology

Colorado State University

EDUCATION

A.B.,   Biology, Hiram College, 1966

M.A.,   Biology, Princeton University, 1969

Ph.D.,  Biology, Princeton University, 1970

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Biology, College of William and

     Mary, 1971, 1977, 1986-2004

Visiting Scientist, Human Leukemia Program, The Ontario Cancer Institute and University of

     Toronto, 1974-75

Head Instructor, Laboratories in Developmental Biology, Princeton University, 1968-69

Teaching Assistant, Biochemistry Laboratory, Princeton University, 1969

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES

Chair, Department of Biology,  College of William and Mary, 1982-87, 1988-93, 1996-2004

Director, University Self-Study for Reaccreditation, College of William and Mary, 1993-95

Director, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Biology Education Program,

  College of William and Mary ($1 million), 1989-1994

Special Assistant to the Provost, College of William and Mary, summer 1989

Special Assistant to the President, University of Colorado, 1987-88

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS

Developmental Biology :  Cell movement and cell adhesion in embryonic development

Evolutionary Biology:  Industrial melanism in American peppered moths.

Higher Education/Public Policy:  Academic leadership, intercollegiate athletics, science education.

Rock Art:  Rock art depictions of birds in the American Southwest

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

General Introductory Biology for science majors (400-600 students)

Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology for science majors (300-500 students)

General Biology for non-science majors (200-500 students)

Developmental Biology (100-150 students)

Freshman Seminar (15 students)

Director and Instructor, Biology Section, Virginia Governor’s School for the Gifted in Science and

     Technology, College of William and Mary (30-35 high school students, 1990-95)

Rock Art of the American Southwest (100 after-college students)

Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma Freshmen Honor Societies, winner of

     "The Outstanding Faculty Member" Award, College of William and Mary (1993)

Honorary Faculty Marshall, one of two selected by William and Mary senior class for 300th 

     Commencement (1993; also selected by senior class in 1990 and 2004)

PANELS, BOARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES, ETC.

National Science Foundation Summer Biology Program, The Ohio State University, 1961

General Motors National Scholar, Rutgers College, 1962-64

National Science Foundation Summer Workshop, "Molecular and Cellular Techniques in

     Developmental Biology," University of California at San Diego, 1970

National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, 1970-71

Participant, National Science Foundation ‑ American Association for the Advancement of Science

     Chautauqua Short Course, "Ethical Issues in Death and Dying," University of Maryland, 1977‑78

Gordon Research Conference, "Cell Contact and Movement,"  Proctor Academy, New Hampshire,

     1979

Symposium participant, "High Technology Industry and Higher Education: A Profitable Alliance,"

    James Madison University, 1983

Interim Policy Committee, Colonial Athletic League, 1983-85

American Council on Education Leadership Development Program, "Chairing the Academic

     Department ‑‑ For Deans, Division and Department Chairpersons," Washington, D.C., 1984

Workshop on Recombinant DNA Technology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1984

State Council on Higher Education in Virginia Funds for Excellence, Laboratory in Molecular

     Biology, 1984-86 ($60,000)

American Council on Education Fellow, 1987-88

Consultant, Office of Science and Technology Education of American Association for the

     Advancement of Science, Project on Liberal Education and the Sciences (1987)

Invited guest (14‑member delegation from American Council on Education), Ministry of Education,

     Republic of China, to visit China Medical College, Ming Chuan College, National Taipei Nursing

     College, National Taiwan University, and National Taiwan Normal University (also visited

     University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat‑Sen Memorial High School in Guangdong Province,

     People's Republic of China), 1988

Selection Jury, The Virginia Scientist of the Year, 1988-2000

Life Sciences Advisory Committee, Science Museum of Virginia, 1989-92

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Biology Education, College of William and Mary,

     $1 million, author and principal investigator, 1989

Life Sciences Advisory Committee, Science Museum of Virginia, 1989-92

Consultant, U.S. Department of Education Contract, Science Curriculum for Gifted Learners K-8,

     William and Mary School of Education (1990-92)

Outside Evaluator, University of Richmond Graduate Program in Biology, 1991

Participant, National Science Foundation Chautauqua Workshop, "Rocky Mountain Ecology,"

     University of Denver High Altitude Research Laboratory, 1991

National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Panel, 1991

National Science Foundation Undergraduate Curriculum and Course Development in Engineering,

     Mathematics and Sciences Panel, 1991

Participant, American Association of Colleges workshop, "Reforming the Major," 1992

Policy and Implementation Committee, American Council on Education Council of Fellows, 1992-94

Member, Visiting Team for Southern Association Re-Accreditation, Georgia Institute of Technology,

     1994

Participant, National Science Foundation Chautauqua Workshop, "Native Americans of the

     Southwestern United States," Santa Fe, NM, 1994

Board of Directors, Williamsburg Community Hospital, 1994-96

Board of Directors, Williamsburg Community Health Foundation, 1996-2000

Southwest Service Subcommittee, Sierra Club, 2007-

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

      Recent History of Melanism in American Peppered Moths.  Journal of Heredity 93:86-90, B.S. Grant and L.L. Wiseman (2002)

      The Numbers Game: The Statistical Heritage in Intercollegiate Athletics, Chapter 1, pp. 5-12, in "Monitoring the Intercollegiate Athletics Enterprise," in New Directions for Institutional Research Series, Number 74, ed., B.I. Mallette and R.D. Howard, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA, J.R. Thelin and L.L. Wiseman (1992)

      The Academic President in an Age of Fund Raising and Legislative Affairs, Chapter 1, pp. 3-9, in Managing Institutions of Higher Education: Issues and Implications, ed., R.R. Sims and S.J. Sims, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 250 pp, L. Wiseman (1991)

      The Future of Big-Time Intercollegiate Athletics, Planning for Higher Education 19:18-27, J.R. Thelin and L.L. Wiseman (1991)

      The Trouble With College Football... ...And What's To Be Done About It, The Washington Post, January 6, 1990, A21 (op-ed piece), J.R. Thelin and L.L. Wiseman (1990)

      Fiscal Fitness? The Peculiar Economics of Intercollegiate Athletics, Capital Ideas 4, No. 4:1-9, J.R. Thelin and L.L. Wiseman (1990)

      The Old College Try: Balancing Athletics and Academics in Higher Education, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 141 pp., J.R. Thelin and L.L. Wiseman (1989)

      Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? William and Mary Magazine 54, No. 6:22-26, L.L. Wiseman (1986)

      Fossil Genes: Scarce as Hen's Teeth? Science 215:698-699, B. Grant and L.L. Wiseman (1982)

      Desmosome Frequency: Experimental Alteration May Correlate with Differential Adhesion, Journal of Cell Science 49:217-223, L.L. Wiseman and J. Strickler (1981)

      Algophagus pennsylvanicus -- A New Species of Hyadesidae from Water-Filled Treeholes, International Journal of Acarology 6:79-84, N.J. Fashing and L.L. Wiseman (1980)

      Phase Inversion in Embryonic Tissue Engulfment Experiments: Tissue Size is Not the Important Variable, Journal of Theoretical Biology 83:365-366, L.L. Wiseman (1980)

      Cell Surface Proteolytic Activity of Suspended Embryonic Cells Isolated With and Without Proteolytic Enzymes, Experientia 34:462, L.L. Wiseman and W.R. Hammond (1978)

      Contact Inhibition and the Movement of Metal, Glass, and Plastic Beads Within Solid Tissue Masses, Experientia 33:734-735, L.L. Wiseman (1977)

      Can the Differential Adhesion Hypothesis Explain How an Aggregate of Strongly Cohesive Cells Can Be Penetrated by More Weakly Cohesive Cells? Developmental Biology 58:204-211, L.L. Wiseman (1977)

      Self vs Nonself in Tissue Assembly. Correlated Changes in Recognition Behavior and Tissue Cohesiveness, Developmental Biology 57:150-159, H.M. Phillips, L.L. Wiseman, and M.S. Steinberg (1977)

      Is the Movement of Single Cells Within Solid Tissue Masses Induced by Trypsinization? Experimental Cell Research 103:426-431, L.L. Wiseman, G.J. Gorbsky, and T.S. Melester (1976)

      The Reacquisition of Cell Adhesiveness Following Tissue Disaggregation by Eleven Different Agents, Journal of Experimental Zoology 197:429-433, L.L. Wiseman and W.R. Hammond (1976)

      Stem Cell Characterization of Neutropenia: Velocity Sedimentation and Mass Culture Analysis, British Journal of Cancer 34:46-52, L.L. Wiseman, J.S. Senn, R.G. Miller, and G.B. Price (1976)

      The Movement of Single Cells Within Solid Tissue Masses, Experimental Cell Research 79:468-471, L.L. Wiseman and M.S. Steinberg (1973)

      A Rheological Mechanism Sufficient to Explain the Kinetics of Cell Sorting, Journal of Theoretical Biology 37:43-73 (reprinted with additional references and illustrations as Chapter 11 in Mathematical Models for Cell Rearrangement, G.D. Mostow, ed., Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1975, pp. 196-230), R. Gordon, N.S. Goel, M.S. Steinberg, and L.L. Wiseman (1972)

      Do Morphogenetic Tissue Rearrangements Require Active Cell Movements? The Reversible Inhibition of Cell Sorting and Tissue Spreading by Cytochalasin B, Journal of Cell Biology 55:606-615, M.S. Steinberg and L.L. Wiseman (1972)

      Experimental Modulation of Intercellular Cohesiveness: Reversal of Tissue Assembly Patterns, Developmental Biology 28:498-517, L.L. Wiseman, M.S. Steinberg, and H.M. Phillips (1972)

Published abstracts with students on their research:

Gorbsky, G.J., T.S. Melester, J.T. Mason, and L.L. Wiseman (1976) Cell movement within tightly packed cellular aggregates. American Zoologist 16:229a.

Nicholas, R. and L.L. Wiseman (1977) Sorting-out and movement of cell-size plastic and metal particles combined with embryonic chick cells.  American Zoologist 17:882.

Strickler, J. and L.L. Wiseman (1978) Desmosomes implicated in the experimental modulation of intercellular cohesiveness. Journal of Cell Biology 79:39a.

Bumgardner, G.D., D. Fisher, and L.L. Wiseman (1979) A comparative study of cellular adhesiveness in cultured human normal, cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's Disease fibroblasts. Virginia Journal of Science 30:46.

Macko, V.J. and L.L. Wiseman (1979) Adhesive interactions of embryonic chick heart and liver cells in culture: fibroblasts, hepatocytes, and myocytes alone and in combinations.  Virginia Journal of Science 30:51.

Tucci, M.A. and L.L. Wiseman (1982) Migration of embryonic chick heart fibroblasts and myocytes through solid tissue masses in culture.  American Zoologist 22:901.

SELECTED TALKS AND PANELS

      "Spherical Chickens from Ivory Towers," College of William and Mary (2004)

      "What's Wrong with Science Teaching?," Christopher Wren Association, College of William and Mary (2001)

      "Melanism in Peppered Moths in England and Tennessee: Where Have All the Dark Ones Gone?," Department of Biology, East Tennessee State University (1999)

      "Teaching Science to Non-Science Students," The Governor's School for Global Economics and Technology, Longwood College (1998)

      "Access to Higher Education: Sports and Students," Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Charlottesville, VA (1996)

      "Athletics and Fundraising: Boon or Boondoggle?," Distinguished Speaker Series, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Regional Meeting, Oakland, CA (1992)

      "Economics of Intercollegiate Athletics," Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, Washington, D.C., with J.R. Thelin (1990)

      "Industrialization of the American University," Annual Higher Education and Public Policy Lecture, College of William and Mary (1989)

Also, several dozen seminars to various biology/science departments in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Idaho, Colorado, and Ontario, Canada over the years….