BARBARA OAKLEY Explorations in mind and place
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BiographyBarbara is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Currently an Associate Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Michigan, she has been at the forefront of efforts to expand the bioengineering profession and has won awards from such organizations as the National Science Foundation. Oakley’s work has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience.
Oakley’s academic career came after a series of globetrotting adventures that got her dubbed “a female Indiana Jones.” While knocking back tumblers of vodka with the captain of a Soviet fishing boat during the height of the Cold War, she was told, “You know too much, it's time to kill you”— a rhyme in Russian. She chronicled her stint as a maritime translator in Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler. Other exploits include working at the South Pole Station in Antarctica; rising from U.S. Army private to captain, during which Oakley was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar; and teaching in Qíqíhā'ěr, Manchuria—“the Red Chinese equivalent of Fargo, North Dakota, but with six million people,” she says. Excerpts from Barbara's photo album
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