ASPB News Luminaries

Welcome to the ASPB News “Luminaries” column. Student and postdoc members are invited to submit their ideas for a 500- to 750-word interview they might like to conduct with a prominent scientist. Contact Membership Committee Chair Ruth Welti at welti@ksu.edu, who will help you develop some questions to frame your story.

FALL 2022
Interview with Edgar Cahoon
by Vinusha Wickramasinghe


NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021
Interview with Diane Ebert-May
by Katy McIntyre

MAY/JUNE 2021
Interview with Ian Newman
by Andrew Egesa


NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020
Interview with Vi Shukla
by Jithesh Vijayan

MAY/JUNE 2020
Interview with Zhiyong Wang
by Diwaker Tripathi


NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018
Interview with Natasha Raikhel
by Prateek Tripathi

JULY/AUGUST 2018
Interview with Eric Schaller
by Ashraf Mohammad Arif

MARCH/APRIL 2018
Interview with Tetsuya Higashiyama
by Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
Interview with Keiko Torii
by Diwaker Tripathi


JULY/AUGUST 2017
Interview with Rajeev Varshney
by Rishi R. Masalia

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017
Interview with Marja Timmermans
by Sunil Kumar K R


SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016
Interview with Philip N. Benfey
by Arif Ashraf

MARCH/APRIL 2016
Interview with Philip J. White
by Michael Osei Adu


SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015
Interview with Sudhir Kumar Sopory
by Prateek Tripathi

MARCH/APRIL 2015
Interview with Richard Richards
by Sambasivam Periyannan


MARCH/APRIL 2014
Interview with Steve Kay
by Sandra Smieszek

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014
Interview with Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
by Keum Young Lee


NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013
Interview with Julian Schroeder
by Prateek Tripathi

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2013
Interview with Richard Vierstra
by Kranthi K. Mandad

JULY/AUGUST 2013
Interview with Imre Somssich
by Prateek Tripathi

March/april 2013
Interview with Professor Stefan Hortensteiner
by Prateek Tripathi


NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2012
Interview with Professor Bob Goldberg
by Margaret Taylor

MAY/JUNE 2012
Interview with Professor Rob Martienssen
by Christos Noutsos