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The Academic
Genealogy of George A. Bartholomew1,.. |
In addition to his philosophical and research legacies (Bartholomew,
2005; Dawson, 2005), George Bartholomew also made an enduring contribution
to organismal science in the many students that he trained. Bart supervised
the training of 39 Ph.D. students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, and
one Master's student during his long and distinguished tenure at the
University of California at Los Angeles. These students went on to
train their own students, producing a large descendant academic lineage.
This lineage now spans a maximum of seven generations and includes
nearly 1,200 individuals.
In 1987, Donald Hoyt summarized the academic relationships among
Bart's doctoral students and their subsequent doctoral students
in a pictorial descendant tree (Fig. 1). This tree included about
200 individuals at the time. On the occasion of this symposium honoring
Bart and a decade of recipients of the Bartholomew Award of the
Society, we decided to undertake the task of updating this academic
lineage. It became obvious in short order than any sort of artistic
rendition (such as Fig. 1) had become impossible because of the
large number of individuals in the lineage.
Instead, we developed a web-based genealogy to document these academic
relationships. The resulting database can store and display considerably
more information than a traditional format, including more detailed
relationships, current position, and contact information. The electronic
format is also much easier to correct and update. Charles Lowe,
Webmaster in Biological Sciences Computing Support, developed new
academic genealogical software for this purpose, and the resulting
academic genealogical tree for George A. Bartholomew can be accessed
at http://bartgen.bio.uci.edu/tree.
For each individual, their name, their advisor's name, their degree
and year of degree, their current title and institution, their address,
e-mail address and their telephone number is recorded, when this
information is known. Because of the number of individuals involved,
it is not feasible to list here even the names of all the descendants,
much less other information about them. A small portion of the database
is shown in Figure 2, which enumerates the first Ph.D. student graduated
from each descendant's laboratory and their academic position.
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