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Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™

Members of Long Standing (and long hair)

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Members of Long Standing (and long hair) -- Gallery 1
(Most of these members joined in 2001-2003)

These are some Members-in-Good-Hair of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
(NOTE: Some entries include comments; these were supplied by the LFHCfS member or by the person or organization who or which nominated her or him.)

GHRIST
Robert W. Ghrist, LFHCfS
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
<Robert Ghrist>
(Nominated by investigator Jeff Erickson)

HARMAN
"I'm a linguist, currently working for Motorola; previously I've worked on research at UC Berkeley, and before that at Johns Hopkins."
R Michael Harman, LFHCfS
Linguist
Lexicus
Mountain View, California
<http://www.auros.org/>

SKOTOWSKI
Aga Skotowski, LFHCfS
Graduate student in computer science
University of Maryland
<Aga Skotowski>
"I should nominate my friend Aga Skotowski. She's a Comp Sci PhD student at U MD. Up until just recently she was working on mission control software for space missions, but she just switched to working in the Computational Linguistics department under Phil Resnik -- another member of the LFHCfS."
(Nominated by investigator R. Michael Harman, LFHCfS)

NEELY
"I have always had different hair, and I think it is about time I got my 'props' for it."
Greg Neely, LFHCfS
Graduate student in cellular immunology
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
<Greg Neely>

MARCANTONIO
Karen Marcantonio, LFHCfS
Organic Chemist
Merck Pharmaceuticals
"I would like to nominate my good friend Karen Marcantonio, Organic Chemist, who survived grad school at Penn and has gone on to become a researcher with Merck Pharmaceuticals. I daresay Karen's hair exemplifies what the LFHCfS is all about, and your Club would be stronger for admitting her."
(Nominated by investigator Jessica Erace)

EAMUS
Derek Eamus, LFHCfS
Professor of Environmental Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
"My colleagues and I would like to nominate our esteemed Prof for membership to the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He passes himself off in professional circles as a plant physiologist."
<Derek Eamus>
(Nominated by investigator Grant Hose)

McCULLOUGH
"This is very cool!"
Laura McCullough, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Menomonie, Wisconsin
<http://physics.uwstout.edu/staff/mccullough/index.htm>

WERNICK
Paul Wernick, LFHCfS
Department of Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire, England
"I wish to nominate my old friend, Paul Wernick."
<Paul Wernick>
(Nominated by investigator Jeffrey Borinsky)

ASARO
"I couldn't resist."
Catherine Asaro, LFHCfS
Physicist and science fiction author and Nebula Award winner
Maryland
<Catherine Asaro>

CZERWINSKI
Kenneth R. Czerwinski, LFHCfS
Professor of Radiochemistry
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
<Ken Czerwinski>"
"We nominate our advisor, Dr. Kenneth R. Czerwinski. In addition to his luxuriant, flowing hair, he is a generally groovy science dude. He is moving from MIT to become professor of Radiochemistry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas."
(Nominated by the Actinide Chemistry Group at MIT)

MAY
Brian May, LFHCfS
Astronomer and Rock Star
Formerly of Imperial College London
Queen
<http://www.armaghplanet.com/html/astrogazers.htm>
<http://www.top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=4078&string=Music>
"I nominate Brian May, the lead guitarist of the rock group Queen, for membership of LFHCfS. He studied for a Ph.D. in Infrared Astronomy at Imperial College, London but was unable to complete his thesis due to the competing demands of being a rock star. I refer the reader to his scientific publications list at http://www.pemcom.demon.co.uk/queen/physics.html."
(Nominated by investigator Philip G.P. Welch, LFHCfS)

HOWELL
Steve Howell, LFHCfS
Astronomer
WIYN Observatory
NOAO
Tucson Arizona
<http://www.nso.edu/sunspot/info/general/tlrbse/people/steve.htm>
"We'd like to nominate Dr. Steve Howell, who teaches in the TLRBSE program at NOAO and pursues research on interacting binaries, extra-solar planets, and observational techniques with charge-coupled devices (CCDs).Steve has agreed to the membership and of course, is honored."
(Nominated by investigator Ivy Merriot and colleagues)

BAKIS
"I am currently a Research Associate in the Program for Gene Function and Expression at UMass Medical. I enjoy both science and luxuriant flowing hair."
Michele Bakis, LFHCfS
Research Associate
Program for Gene Function and Expression
UMass Medical School
Worcester, Massachusetts
<http://www.insertnamehere.com/images/haircut.jpg>
<http://www.umassmed.edu/pmm/faculty/lawson.cfm?start=Personnel>

LINDAHL
"The guys at work say I'm a computer architect, but I prefer to view myself as the company's only astronomer... a REAL science. My hair has flown in zero-g, thanks to the Vomit Comet. I am also a professional admirer of Normal Ramsey, LFHCfS."
Greg Lindahl, LFHCfS
Computer Architect
Key Research, Inc
Sunnyvale, California

SCHOONOVER
Rod Schoonover, LFHCfS
Associate Professor
Chemical Physics
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, California
<http://www.calpoly.edu/~chem/faculty/schoonover.htm
<http://www.calpoly.edu/~rschoono/>
"I nominate Professor Rod Schoonover with my deepest gratitude and appreciation."
(Nominated by investigator Mark Rashkin)

HADDEN
Lucy Hadden, LFHCfS
Computer Scientist
Gene Codes Corporation
Ann Arbor, Michigan
<http://www.mindspring.com/~wbrockman/May03/577_l_j_sadie.jpg>
"I nominate Dr. Lucy Hadden. In the picture, she's the tall one with the nice, long, flowing hair."
(Nominated by investigator Joshua Brandon Holden, LFHCfS)

MAUHAR
"I believe this picture qualifies me for the Scientists with Long Flowing Hair society."
America Mauhar, LFHCfS
Genetics Researcher
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
San Diego, California
<http://www.xed.ch/fern/2002/2002.10.05.bayride/ht/09.html>

MARTIN, EUGENE M.
"I am merely a graduate student in Neuroscience, but I love both Neuroscience and my luxuriant, red, flowing hair.."
Eugene M. Martin, LFHCfS
Graduate student in Neuroscience
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
<http://photos.friendster.com/photos/29/19/179192/75756469122l.jpg>
<http://www.mbi.ufl.edu/Dept/gradscvs.htm>

BRENT AND BRENT
"I'd like to nominate my husband and I."
Geoffrey and Gillian Brent, LFHCfS
HE: Research Scientist, Vision Co-operative Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia
SHE: Engineering Student, University of Western Sydney, Australia
<http://www.geocities.com/cutondogor/uspics/longhair1.jpg>
<http://www.geocities.com/cutondogor/uspics/longhair2.jpg>

ASHWORTH
Alan Ashworth, LFHCfS
Director
Breakthrough Toby Robins Breast Cancer Research Centre
Institute of Cancer Research.
London, U.K.
<http://www.icr.ac.uk/everyman/events/update/searchnov1999.pdf>
<http://science.cancerresearchuk.org/research/loc/london/inst_cancer_research/ashwortha/>
"I nominate Prof. Alan Ashworth for his attempt to revive the Marlo 'That Girl' Thomas style hair-flip."
(Nominated by investigator Michael Olson)

HARPER
Greg Harper, LFHCfS
Associate Director
Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA)
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
<http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26814>
<http://staff.washington.edu/gharper/>
"The photos are evidence of the eligibility of one Greg Harper for membership of your exalted club."
(Nominated by investigator Dave Walters)

HORSWILL
Ian Horswill, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
<http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~ian/>
"I nominate Ian Horswill. Truly luxuriant, truly flowing!"
(Nominated by investigator Jonathan Handler)

LOVELL
Amy Lovell, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Bradley Observatory, Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Georgia.
<http://ecademy.agnesscott.edu/~ajlovell/>
<http://www.merlab.com/updates/amy.jpg>
"I nominate Dr. Amy Lovell, astrophysicist and licensed pilot."
(Nominated by investigator Joel Skelton)

WHITFORD-STARK
J.L. Whitford-Stark, LFHCfS
Professor
Department of Geology
Sul Ross State University
Alpine, Texas
<J.L. Whitford-Stark>
"I would strongly support the membership and therefor like to nominate Jim Whitford-Stark."
(Nominated by investigator Maarten Willems)

GRAY
"I wish to apply for membership. This picture should serve as my application. I am a cognitive scientist."
Wayne Gray, LFHCfS
Professor of Cognitive Science
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York
<http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/>

HALE
Mark Hale, LFHCfS
Associate Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec
"I would like to nominate Mark Hale. I think he is an especially qualified candidate, as he has LFH fully circumscribing his entire head. It is not every day you find a scientist with 360 degrees of LFH. You can see a series of pictures of him throughout the years in the bottom lefthand corner of his homepage."
<http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/hale/>
(Submitted by Kate Ketner)

BEATY, BILL
"Those of us with less, we have to do something to get it up. I'm an amateur physicist, physics edu. consultant, and also an electronics designer for the UW chemistry. No grant or other funding though, so I'm not professionally a scientist, more like an independantly supported dilletant as in the early 1800s."
Bill Beaty, LFHCfS
Amateur scientist
Chemistry Department
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
<http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/billb.html>
<http://amasci.com/me.html>

BLUMENSCHEIN
"I saw the announcement for the LFHCfS, and I thought I had to apply. I hadn't been alternately teased and complimented for my hair all those years for nothing!"
Lecturer
School of Chemistry
University of East Anglia
United Kingdom

BOBROW, ELISABETH -- WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2004/5!
"Among the three of us, sisters and all members of LFHCfS, we have more than 7 feet of hair."
Elisabeth Bobrow, LFHCfS
Electrical Engineer
BAE Systems
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
<http://www.mit.edu/~johanna/LFHCfS/sisters.html>

BOBROW, JOHANNA -- WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2004/5!
"Among the three of us, sisters and all members of LFHCfS, we have more than 7 feet of hair."
Johanna Bobrow, LFHCfS
Biologist [and former (undergraduate) student of club member Steven Pinker's]
Staff Scientist
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
<http://www.mit.edu/~johanna/LFHCfS/LFHCfS.html>
<http://www.mit.edu/~johanna/LFHCfS/sisters.html>

BOBROW, LAUREL -- WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2004/5!
"Among the three of us, sisters and all members of LFHCfS, we have more than 7 feet of hair."
Laurel Bobrow, LFHCfS
Brain & Cognitive Sciences student
MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
<http://www.mit.edu/~johanna/LFHCfS/sisters.html>

BYE
"I think I qualify for membership."
Tore Bye, LFHCfS
Department of Health, Environment and Safety
University hospital of Trondheim, Norway
<http://innsidaut.ntnu.no/nettavis_lesmer.php?kategori=nyheter&dokid=3bfb6545849c31.55939787>

DESALVO
"Hi, I guess I could not be missed, your web site has been signaled to me and I will not hide. My hair has a large dynamic range (I generally apply to it a draconian annual cut). After my annual cut it is normally unnoticed, but most of the time, I guess, I qualify.These are fresh photos, half way through the year. If it's not fun it's not physics!"
Riccardo DeSalvo, LFHCfS
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) Project
Caltech
<http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~desalvo/>

DOWNES
Stephen Downes, LFHCfS
Senior Research Officer
National Research Council E-Learning Group
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
<http://www.downes.ca/photos/Downes.jpg>

ERBACHER
"Here are two photos. One is from a couple years ago. I'll work on a better one. This one demonstrates the hair thing though (I'm on the right)."
Robin D. Erbacher, LFHCfS
Research Associate on the CDF experiment at the Tevatron
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
<http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~robine/family/RobinChrisJump.GIF.gz>
<Robin Erbacher>

GORDON
"I have done much in the past years in order to advance the status of luxuriant, flowing hair, including having some of my own, as evidenced here"
Matt Gordon, LFHCfS
Graduate student in physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
<http://www.silent-tristero.com/matt_with_band.jpg>
<http://www.silent-tristero.com/deranged.html>

GORSKI
"I am able to give you this picture which shows my LFH without actually showing much of the rest of me. I am, of course, the red-haired gentleman with his back to the camera, not the almost completely invisible short-haired person in the background: <http://www4.ncsu.edu/~cpgorski/LFHCfS.jpg>. My ponytail itself is about 15" long right now."
Christopher Gorski, LFHCfS
Graduate Student of Computer Sciencee
North Carolina State University

GREENWOOD
"I think I qualify."
Jeremy Greenwood, LFHCfS
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Royal Danish School of Pharmacy
Copenhagen, Denmark
<http://compchem.dfh.dk/Jeremy/cv/jeremy.jpg>

HARRUS -- WOMAN OF THE YEAR - 2002/3!
"In becoming a member of LFHCfS I would be fulfilling a long dream of belonging to the same club as Steven Pinker."
Ilana Harrus, LFHCfS
X-Ray Astronomer
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
<http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/imh>

HATHAWAY
"This picture should show sufficient reason to include me as a new member in the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists!"
William Hathaway, LFHCfS
Member, Technical Staff, Science Planning and Scheduling
Space Telescope Science Institute

HUFF
"It can be easily verified that I have Luxuriant Flowing Hair. You may find the evidence on my web site."
Chuck Huff, LFHCfS
Associate Professor
Psychology Department
St. Olaf College
<http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/>

KRAUSE
Christina M. Krause, LFHCfS
Professor of Cognitive Science
University of Helsinki
<http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/kognitiotiede/english/personnel.htm>
<http://www.helsinki.fi/~ckrause/>

LESIEUTRE
"The evidentiary photo shows me with my hair down, something rarely seen."
George Lesieutre, LFHCfS
Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Penn State University
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/gal4/GLhair.jpg>

LICHTENBERG
"I am confident about meeting the luxuriant flowing hair requirement, however, I'm not sure if I can be considered a scientist since I am only an undergraduate student (Biology Major at the University of Maryland, College Park)."
Elinor Lichtenberg, LFHCfS
Undergraduate biology major
University of Maryland
See updated entry June 15, 2006.

LINK
"A girl friend of mine suggested I join. It seems cool. I hope there are club-associated activities such as symposiums on superheated steam or the human genome project! My friend always makes fun of me because I don't 'look like a scientist' or for that matter an Engineer so I suppose. I guess this is her way of making nice. After reviewing our truly outstanding company I thought I should try to write something a little more dignified but I get tired of being dignified so I'll say something about my hair. My hair has always had a life of its own. On warm humid days, it takes up the whole sidewalk. It has been remarkable since I was very small, and though I am quite tall, the thing people remember is my hair. My hair always speaks my mood and it is the barely controllable mark of passion in my life."
Hildegaard Link, P.E., LFHCfS
Senior Engineer
Corporate Environmental Health & Safety
Consolidated Edison Company
New York City

McCLAIN-FURMANSKI
Dennis McClain-Furmanski, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology and Human Ecology
Cameron University
Lawton Oklahoma, USA
See updated entry July 25, 2006

McIVER
"I am happy to be entitled to join the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists with evidence both of Luxuriant Flowing Hair *and* scientistness (although not linguistic capabilities) with the submission of the following URL: <http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lindap/graduation.jpg> I'm the one with the silliest hat and the most hair."
Linda McIver, LFHCfS
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Monash University
<http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lindap>

NAISH
"I have LFH."
Lee Naish, LFHCfS
Computer Science & Software Engineering Department
University of Melbourne
<http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~lee/images/>

PARAVIDINO -- MAN OF THE YEAR - 2002/3!
"Hi, I think I can qualify... I'm a chemical researcher in an Italian company, besides being a guitarist in an heavy metal band."
Dr. Piero Paravidino, LFHCfS
Italy
Mesmerize

PARKER
"It is an honor and privilege for me to join LFHCfS."
Susan Parker, LFHCfS
Research Associate
NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope) Detector Lab
Institute for Astronomy
Hilo, Hawaii
<Susan Parker>

PEARSON
"I submit this URL as my application into the LFHCfS."
Jim Pearson, LFHCfS
Professor, Air Quality Lab
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
<http://aql.gatech.edu/staffmembers/jrp/badhairday.html>

PELLETIER
Jeff Pelletier
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Alberta
<http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jeffp>

QUACKENBUSH
"I was told I should become a member of LFHCfS. While I would never want to join any organization that would have someone like me as a member, this may be an exception."
John Quackenbush, LFHCfS
Investigator
The Institute for Genomic Research
Rockville, Maryland
<http://www.tigr.org/faculty/John_Quackenbush.shtml>
(Encouraged by Victoria McGovern: "Dear Dr. Quackenbush: It has come to my attention that you are not yet a member of the LFHCfS. This, in my estimation, is Tragic. You should not hide your light under a bushel basket. To do so will only lead to unhappiness, desperation, and split ends.
Go. Go, boldly, forth forthwith. Very sincerely yours, Dr. McGovern.")

RAMSEY
"All these years I thought I had been growing my hair just for fun, but thanks to Ken Shan's sharp eyes I have learned the real reason: eligibility for membership in the best scientific club in the world!"
Norman Ramsey, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
<http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr>

RECTOR
"The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists is a club to which I would be proud to belong."
Travis Rector, LFHCfS
Astronomer and educator
Research Based Science Education Program
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory
<http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/rector>

REES
"I would like to propose myself for membership in this august body."
Richard Rees, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Sciences
Westfield State College
<http://www.physci.wsc.ma.edu/dept/people/rees.html>

SKWARECKI
"I would like to nominate myself. Please note that in the photo I am also wearing a luxuriant flowing jacket.."
Beth Skwarecki, LFHCfS
Graduate student in Molecular BioSciences
Rutgers University, New Jersey
<http://loxosceles.org/beth/1828.jpg>
<http://www.loxosceles.org>

THURSTON
"I humbly submit the following two URLs for the study on luxuriant,flowing hair. These are, not surprisingly, my own URLs. The second URL is actually linked from the first URL but is buried in a paragraph and easy to miss."
Rachel Thurston, LFHCfS
Polymer Center of the Battelle Memorial Institute
<http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~surak/thurston.html>
<http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~surak/rachelbw.gif>

VOGL
"When you announced the club for scientists with long hair. I had no good pictures showing my hair. Recently we had a chicken in the house for R&R and it became curious as to what I was doing. You can see the result."
Tom Vogl, LFHCfS
Research Professor Emeritus
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
<http://world.std.com/~kcl/chickenbirds4.html>

WHITELEY
"If you are feeling brave you should be able to see a bad bad bad photo of me on <http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/staff/dlw/daveaft.htm>. This photo is quite old, My hair is now greyer, but no shorter."
Dave Whiteley, LFHCfS
Senior Computing Officer
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The University of Leeds
<http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/>
<http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/staff/dlw/>

YEH
"I would like to nominate myself to enter this club because of the following reasons. First, as you can see in the attached photo, I certainly have (or still have) luxuriant flowing hair. Second, I dyed my hair. I work in a University where wearing uniform for Professor is required. Because I dyed my hair blond this semester, it had generated some discussions about whether Professors should or should not dye their hair. Therefore, I think I am fully qualified as a member of the club."
Susan (Lu-Shu) Yeh, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Department of Life Science
Tzu-Chi University,
Hua-Lien, Taiwan

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