Updated November 8, 2009
Telephone: (212) 854-2409
Fax: (212) 865 8246
Email: pollack@columbia.edu
Homepage: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty-data/robert-pollack/faculty.html
Address:
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10027
Curriculum Vitae:
Born
Married Amy Steinberg,
December 21, 1961.
Daughter, Marya.
2000-2001 Chavruta partnership Study, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
1998-1999 Sabbatical year in the First Year
Program, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Dept. of Psychiatry,
1996-1998 Jewish Theological Seminary,
Chavruta Study Group on Theology, Prof. Neil Gillman.
1969-1970 Weizmann Institute,
1966-1968 New York University Medical
Center,
1963, summer Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory,
Embryology.
1961-1966 Brandeis University, Biology
Department, NIH Predoctoral Training Fellowship, Ph.D. Thesis: "Studies on
the Specificity of Transfer RNA."
1957-1961 Columbia College,
2001
Mendel
Lecture, St. Peter’s College.
2000 Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities,
Physicians and Surgeons,
1999 Schoff Memorial
Lectures,
1999 Gittelson-Meyerowitz
Distinguished Service Award, Sutton place Synagogue.
1995 Lionel Trilling Award,
For Signs of Life: The Language and
Meanings of DNA.
1994 Fellow, American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
1993 Fellow, John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation.
1989 Alexander Hamilton
Medal,
1987 William Brockman
Memorial Lecture, U.
1986 Who's Who in
1986 American Association For
Higher Education, Commendation.
1974 National Institutes of
Health Research Career Development Award.
Current:
Since 2009 Earth Institute Professor
Since 1978 Professor,
Since 2002 Adjunct Professor of Science and
Religion, Union Theological Seminary.
Since 2000 Adjunct Professor,
Since 1999 Lecturer, Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research, Department of Psychiatry,
Since 1994 Adjunct Professor,
Past:
2005-2006 Fellow,
1998-1999 Affiliate Scholar, Center for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Department of Psychiatry,
1993-1994 Visiting Scholar,
1975-1978 Professor,
1970-1974 Senior Scientist,
1968-1970 Instructor; Asst. Prof.,
2006-2009 American Museum of Natural History; Stevens Institute of Technology; The
Riverside Church, NYC; New York Theological Seminary; All Souls Church, NYC;
Columbia College Dean’s Day; Calhoun School, NY; Communion and Liberation, NYU;
The Century Association, NY; Yeshiva University Kollel, NY; Skirball Institute,
NY; Church World Service Disaster Ministry Forum, Princeton Theological
Seminary; Jewish Theological Seminary, Adenauer Forum; Congregation Ramath
Orah, NYC; Metanexus, Philadelphia; Center for Religious Inquiry, NYC;
Philoctetes Society, NYC; Church of the Ascension, New York, First Presbyterian
Church, NY; First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, CT; WNYC-FM; American Museum
of Natural History, NYC.
American Association for
the Advancement of Science, Fellow
1999-2007 Tapestry Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(Nasdaq: TPPH), a pharmaceuticals firm. Director.
1995-2005 Nutrition 21 Inc. (Nasdaq: NXXI), a nutrient supplements
firm. Director.
Current
Since 1999 Director,
Since 2001 Jewish Campus Life Fund of Columbia
University, Board member.
2003-2009 Congregation Ramath Orah, Board.
Since 2006 Senator, University Senate.
Past
2003-2009 Congregation Ramath Orah, Board.
1997-2001 Jewish Campus Life Fund of
1996-1999 Board of Overseers,
1996-1998 Board of Trustees,
1989-1994 Board of Trustees,
1990-1995 Board of Trustees, The
1982-1989 Columbia
College,
Current
Since 2007 Friends of
Since 2006 Faculty Advisory Board,
Since 2003 International Advisory Board, John
Templeton Foundation.
Since 2000 Science Advisory Board, New York
Hall of Science.
Since 1999 Chair, Katzki award committee,
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
2004-2009 National Council of Churches, Human
Genetics Policy Development Committee.
1999 Advisory Board, Fred
Friendly Seminars.
1998 Advisory Board, Program
in Religion and Ecology, Center for the Study of World Religions,
2000-2002 Advisory Board, John Templeton
Foundation.
2000-2002 Advisory Board, California
Newsreel, program on Race.
1998 Senior consultant,
Dialog Between Religion and Science, American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
1996-2002
Advisory
Board, Center for the History of Recent Science, George
1996-1997 Commission on Israel-Diaspora
Relations, Israel Democracy Institute,
1995-2001 World Economic Forum,
1995-1997 MacArthur/ACLS Liberal Arts
Colleges Program, Consultant.
Since 2002 Editorial board, FASEB Journal.
Since 2002 Senior Editor,
Since 1998 Editorial Board, Earthscape (EPIC).
1997-1999 Editorial Board, 21stC,
Current
Since 2009 Interdepartmental Core Seminar G4321, "Human Identity"
Since 2008 Biology C3500/F3500, Independent
Research.
Since 2006 Frontiers of Science, Core
Curriculum,
Since 2005 Short course on science and
religion for clergy, “DNA, Evolution, and the Soul,” UTS
Past
2004-2008 Graduate Seminar for MA and M.Div
students, “DNA, Evolution, and the Soul,” Union Theological Seminary.
1994-2005 Biology EEEB W2001, an
entry-level majors course in molecular biology and genetics from an
evolutionary perspective.
1989-2005 Biology BIOL 4065, a
graduate-level seminar on the molecular biology of disease.
2003-2005 Religion V2820 "Science and
Religion, East and West." An
introductory course for the major in Science and Religion.
1989-2001 Biology BIOL3500, Independent
Research (Director).
1997-1998 Lehrhaus, on Scientific and
Jewish Texts, with Prof. Neil Gillman, Jewish Theological Seminary.
1996-1998 Inter-school Faculty Seminar on
Human diversity.
1979-1998 Biology 1002, a course on the theory and practice of biology, for
non-scientists.
I Research Articles in peer-reviewed
journals
II Essays and Reviews
III Books
IV Unpublished essays, talks, and interviews
V References to work of R. Pollack
1. Pollack, R.,
1966.
2. Pollack, R., H.
Green, H., and G. Todaro, 1968.
3. Pollack, R., and M.
Burger, 1969.
4. Pollack, R., and G.
Teebor, 1969.
5. Wang, R.J., R.
Pollack, T. Kusano and H. Green, 1970.
6. Kusano, T., R. J.
Wang, R. Pollack and H. Green, 1970.
7. Pollack, R., 1970.
Cellular
and viral contributions to maintenance of the SV40 transformed state. In Vitro 6: 58-65.
8. Pollack, R., Wolman,
S. and Vogel, A., 1970.
9. Pollack, R., Salas,
J., Wang, R., Kusano, T., and Green, H., 1971.
10. Green, H., Wang, R.,
Basilico, C., Pollack, R., Kusano, T. and Salas, J., 1971.
Mammalian
somatic cell hybrids and their susceptibility to viral infection. Fed. Proc. 30: 930-934.
10a. Pollack, R., and
Sambrook, J., 1971.
Comments
and suggestions on laboratory technique. Cold Spring Harbor Lab, internal memo,
June 28.
11. Pollack, R., and
Goldman, R., 1973.
12. Goldman, R., Pollack
R., and
13. Pollack, R., and
Vogel, A., 1973.
14. Vogel, A., Risser,
R., and Pollack, R., 1973.
15. Vogel, A. and
Pollack, R., 1973.
16. Pollack, R., 1973.
The Culture of Mammalian Cells.
Chapter 2, pp. 74-172, in The Molecular
Biology of Tumor Viruses (ed. J. Tooze).
17. Goldman, R., Berg,
G., Bushnell, A., Chang, C., Dickerman, L.,
Fibrillar
systems in cell motility. Ciba Foundation Symposium 14: 83-107.
18. Oey, J., Vogel, A.
and Pollack, R., 1974.
19. Risser, R. and
Pollack, R., 1974.
A
non-selective analysis of SV40 transformation of mouse 3T3 cells. Virology 59: 477-489.
20. Pollack, R.,
Goldman, R.D., Conlon, S., and Chang, C., 1974.
21. Vogel, A. and
Pollack, R., 1974.
22. Pollack, R., Risser,
R., Conlon, S., and Rifkin, D., 1974.
23. Pollack, R., and
Hough, P.V.C., 1974.
The
cell surface and malignant transformation. Annual
Rev. Med. 25: 431-446.
24. Vogel, A. and
Pollack, R., 1974.
25. Goldman, R. and
Pollack, R., 1974.
26. Vogel, A., Oey, J.,
and Pollack, R., 1974.
27. Risser, R. and Pollack, R., 1974.
28. Sambrook, J. and
Pollack, R., 1974.
Basic methodology for cell
culture-cell transformation. Methods in
Enzymology 32 part B, Chapter 55, 583-592. New York: Academic Press.
29. Pollack, R., and
Risser, R., 1974.
30. Goldman, R.,
Lazarides, E., Pollack, R., and Weber, K., 1975.
31. Vogel, A., and
Pollack, R., 1975.
32. Risser, R., Rifkin,
D., and Pollack, R., 1975.
33. Weber, K.,
Lazarides, E., Goldman, R., Vogel, R., and Pollack, R., 1975.
34. Pollack, R., Osborn,
M., and Weber, K., 1975.
35. Weber K., Pollack,
R., and Bibring, T., 1975.
36. Vogel, A., Ozanne,
B. and Pollack, R., 1975.
37. Goldman, R.D.,
Pollack, R., Chang, C.M., and Bushnell,A., 1975.
38. Pollack, R., Risser,
R., Conlon, S., Freedman, V., Shin, S. and Rifkin, D., 1975.
39. Shin, S., Freedman,
V., Risser R., and Pollack, R., 1975.
40. Pollack, R., and
Rifkin, D., 1975.
41. Hough, P., McKinney,
W., Ledbetter, M., Pollack, R., and Moos, H., 1976.
42. Pollack, R., and
Rifkin, D., 1976.
43. Rifkin, D., and
Pollack, R., 1976.
44. Topp, W., Hall,
J.D., Marsden, M., Teresky, A.K., Rifkin, D.,Levine, A.J., and Pollack,
R., 1976.
45. Rifkin, D., and
Pollack, R., 1977.
46. Pollack, R., 1977.
47. Kopelovich, L.,
Conlon, S., and Pollack, R., 1977.
48. Scordilis, S.P.,
Anderson, J.L., Pollack, R., and Adelstein, R.S., 1977.
49. Topp, W., Hall, J.,
Rifkin, D., Levine, A. and Pollack, R., 1977.
50. Pollack, R., 1977.
51. Pollack, R.,
Steinberg, B., Zucker, S., Topp, W., and Botchan, M., 1977.
52. Dubrow, R., Pardee,
A., and Pollack, R., 1978.
53. Steinberg, B.,
Pollack, R., Topp, W., and Botchan, M., 1978.
Isolation
and characterization of rat cells containing one copy of the SV40 genome. Cell 13: 19-32.
54. Marshall, C.,
Humphryes, K., and Pollack, R., 1978.
55. Pollack, R., N.
Spurr and Y. Ito, 1978
A
polyoma virus mutant, dl-23, is defective in changing the cytoskeletal actin of
infected cells. Annual Report, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK.
56. Pollack, R., and
Kopelovich, L., 1979.
57. Risser, R., and
Pollack, R., 1979.
58. Pollack, R., 1979.
Cell
shape and motion. NIAID Task Force Report (NIH) 79-1835, 5: 116-143.
59. Barrett, J.C.,
Crawford, B.D., Mixter, L.O., Schechtman, L.M., Tso, P.O., and Pollack, R.,
1979.
60. Rifkin, D., Crowe,
R., and Pollack, R., 1979.
Tumor
promotors induce changes in chick embryo fibroblast cytoskeleton. Cell 18: 361-368.
61. Steinberg, B.M., and
Pollack, R., 1979.
62. Steinberg, B.M.,
Rifkin, D., Shin, S., Boone, C., and Pollack, R., 1979.
Tumorigenicity
of revertants from an SV40-transformed line. J. Supramol. Struct. 11: 539-546.
63. Topp, W., Lane, D.,
and Pollack, R., 1980.
Transformation by polyoma and SV40. The Molecular Biology of Tumor Viruses,
B, 2nd Edition, (ed. J. Tooze), 205-296. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Press.
64. Israel, M., Martin,
M., Miyamura, T., Takemoto, K., Rifkin, D., and Pollack, R., 1980.
Phenotype
of polyoma-induced hamster tumor cell lines.
J. Virology 35: 252-255.
65. Pollack, R., Lo, A.,
Steinberg, B., Smith, K., Shure, H., Blanck, G., and Verderame, M., 1980.
66. Griffin, B., Ito,
Y., Novak, U., Spurr, N., Dilworth, S., Smolar, N., Pollack, R., Smith, K., and
Rifkin, D., 1980.
67. Steinberg, B., Smith,
K., Colozzo, M. and Pollack, R., 1980.
68. Kopelovich, L.,
Lipkin,M., Blattner, W.A., Fraumeni, J.F., Lynch, H.T., and Pollack, R., 1980.
69. Verderame, M.,
Alcorta, D., Egnor, M., Smith, K., and Pollack, R., 1980.
70. Nicholson, N.,
Verderame, M., Lipkin, M., and Pollack, R., 1981.
71. Pollack, R., 1981.
72. Chen, S., Verderame,
M., Lo, A., and Pollack, R., 1981.
73. Pollack, R.,
Nicholson, N., Alcorta, D., Verderame, M., Smith, K., and Steinberg, B., 1982.
74. Powers, S., Alcorta,
D., Nicholson, and Pollack, R., 1982.
75. Murphy, R.F.,
Powers, S., Verderame, M., Cantor, C.R., and Pollack, R., 1982.
76. Lewis, D., Chen, S.,
Kumar, A., Blanck, G., Pollack, R., and Manley, J., 1983.
77. Chen, S., Blanck, G.
and Pollack, R., 1983.
78. Blanck, G., Chen,
S., and Pollack, R., 1983.
79. Chen, S., Grass, D.,
Blanck, G., Hoganson, N., Manley, J., and Pollack, R., 1983.
80. Pollack, R., Prives,
C., and Manley, J., 1983.
81. Verderame, M.F.,
Kohtz, S., and Pollack, R., 1983.
82. Powers, S., Fisher,
P., Pollack, R., Boersig, M., Graham, G., 1984.
83. Pollack, R., Chen,
S., Powers, S. and Verderame, M., 1984.
Transformation
mechanisms at the cellular level. Adv.
Vir. Onc. 4: 1-28.
84. Blanck, G., Chen,
S., and Pollack, R., 1984.
DNAse
sensitivity of integrated SV40 DNA. Molecular
and Cellular Biology 4: 559-566.
85. Murphy, R.F.,
Powers, S., Cantor, C.R., and Pollack, R., 1984.
86. Chen, S., Blanck,
G., and Pollack, R., 1984.
87. Friedman, E.,
Verderame, M., Winawer, E., and Pollack, R., 1984.
88. Nicolson, N., Chen,
S., and Pollack, R., 1984.
89. Levitt, A., Chen,
S., Blanck, G., and Pollack, R., 1985.
90. Friedman, G.,
Verderame, M., and Pollack, R., 1985.
91. Verderame, M., and
Pollack, R., 1986.
92. Chen, S. and
Pollack, R., 1986.
93. Chen, S., Levesque,
P., Pomert, E., and Pollack, R., 1987.
94. Blanck, G., Pollack,
R., Li, D., and Chen, S., 1988.
95. Chen, S., Kazim, D.,
Pomert, E., Kravecka, J., and Pollack, R., 1989.
96. Chen, S., Teicher,
L., Kazim, D., Pollack, R. and Wise, L., 1989.
97. Fukasawa, K.,
Sakoulas, G., Pollack, R., and S. Chen, 1991.
98. Jeoung, D-I., Chen,
S., Windsor, J. and R. Pollack, 1991.
99. Teicher-Colon, L.,
L. Wise, J. Martino, L. Baskin, G. Sakoulas, R. Pollack and S. Chen, 1993.
1. Pollack, R., 1976.
2. Pollack, R., 1981.
3. Pollack, R., 1982.
Proceedings
of President's Cancer Panel Meeting 18-26. Bethesda, NIH.
4. Pollack, R., 1982.
“Biologists
in Pinstripes: Science pauses for a corporate fling.” The Sciences 35-37.
5. Pollack, R., 1982.
“Oncogenes
(letter)”. Science. 218: 1069.
6. Pollack, R., 1984.
“The Replicative Function in
Science.” Einstein , winter: 11.
7. Pollack, R., Henkin,
L., Bell, J., Butler, G., Forde, K., and Van Rees, C., 1984.
8. Pollack, R., and
Fraser, D., 1985.
“The Comparative Anatomy of a Liberal
Arts Education.” The Educational
Leadership Project 1-9.
9. Pollack, R., 1985.
10. Pollack, R., 1985.
“Apartheid:
A Jewish Issue?” The Jewish Connection
6: 1-3.
11. Pollack, R., 1987.
“Attitudes
of Preprofessional and Liberal Arts Students.” J. Dent. Educ. 51: 136-140.
12.Pollack, R., 1987.
“Final
Score at Columbia: Sheepskin 7, Pigskin 6.” The
New York Times Op-Ed, November 26.
13. Pollack, R., 1988.
“Science
as a Creative Process.” Liberal Education
74: 11-15.
14. Pollack, R., 1988.
“The
Place of Service in the Curriculum and Institutional Life.” Liberal Education 74: 37-40.
15. Pollack, R., 1989.
“In
Science, Error Isn't Fraud,” New York Times Op-Ed, May 2.
16. Pollack, R., 1989.
“Reading
DNA.” Columbia Magazine May: 36-37.
17. Pollack, R., 1990.
“Genes
and History.” New Scientist 8: 66-67.
18. Pollack, R.,
1992.
19. Pollack, R., 1993.
“Genetics,”
in The Encyclopedia of the Environment,
New York: Houghton Mifflin.
20. Pollack, R.,
1993.
“Biology
in the Liberal Arts.” ASM News 59: 220-221.
21. Pollack, R., 1993.
"Beyond
Cloning, " N.Y. Times op-ed,
November 17.
22. Pollack, R., 1994.
"Born
with a Pre-Existing Condition," N. Y. Newsday
op-ed, July 15.
23. Pollack, R., 1994.
“Eric
Holtzman: He elevated teaching to an art.”
Columbia College Today, summer, 72.
24. Pollack, R., 1994.
"The
New Biology," Graduate Magazine,
of Columbia University, summer, 1-3.
25. Pollack, R., 1995.
"What Philanthropy should not learn from
'The Bell Curve.'" Chron. Philanth. Jan 15.
26. Pollack, R., 1995.
27. Pollack, R., 1995.
"The
dangers of willful ignorance," Amer.
Council Learned Soc. Occasional Papers 31:21-28.
",
Reprinted in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning,
May-June 1996:56-59.
28. Pollack, R., 1996.
"Interpreting
the Code of Life," 21stC
magazine, Winter 1996, 9, 14.
on Web http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-1.3/dna-interp.html
29. Pollack, R., 1996.
"Molecular
Biology and the Polis; or, What's Worth Doing Well?" 21stC magazine, Winter 1996.
on Web http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-1.3/dna-polis.html
30. Pollack, R., 1997.
"A
Crisis in Scientific Morale," Lead commentary, Nature 385: 673-67.
“, Annals of the New York Academy of
Sciences
“, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.2/pollack.html
31. Pollack, R., 1997.
Review,
"Origin of Species," New England Journal of Medicine, 337: 137.
32. Pollack, R., 1997.
"Hard
Days on the Endless Frontier," FASEB
J. 11: 725-731.
33. Pollack, R., 1996.
Review,
“The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy,” L. Walter.
Nature Biotechnology 14: 1305.
34. Pollack, R., B.
Bloom, H. Griffin and R. Bazell, 1998.
"Biotechnology
in 2018: How will genetic science and technology change the world?" 21stC
3: 9-14.
on web at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.3/forum_all.html
35. Pollack, R., et.
al., 1998.
"'Hard
Days on the Endless Frontier' Revisited," FASEB J. Corresp 12:259-264
36. Pollack, R., 1998.
"Darwin
and Mendel vs. Watson and Crick," FASEB
J., 12: 149-150.
37. Pollack, R., 1999.
"Wisdom
versus knowledge: an agenda for a more humane medical science," FASEB J., 13: 1477-1480.
38. Pollack, R., 1999.
Foreword, "Genetics and your Health," by R. Alford. NJ: Plexus.
39. Pollack, R., 1999.
40. Pollack, R., 1999.
“A Biologist Looks at the Future of Psychoanalysis.” The American Psychoanalyst, 33:24-26
41. Federgruen, A., and
R. Pollack, 2000.
“The
rock-throwing professor Said.” (letter), Jerusalem
Post, July 24.
“, Reprinted
Columbia Spectator, September 5.
42. Pollack, R., 2000.
"The
Human genome and the human community.” Issues
in Science and Technology, Fall, 69.
43. Pollack, R., 2000
“The
Importance of Psalm 27,” Orot (Cong.
Or Zarua), September.
44. Pollack, R., 2000.
“He
fell on his ASP,” (letter), The Nation,
December 25.
45. Pollack, R., 2001.
46. Pollack, R., 2001.
"Genetics."
The Environmental Encyclopedia,
5:576-580. Tarrytown NY: Cavendish.
47. Pollack, R., 2001
"Gene
Maps Lead medicine down the wrong road." Newsday, Sunday Culture Watch, June 17,p. B7.
", Reprinted
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 45,
1 (winter 2002): 43-45.
48. Pollack, R., 2001
"The
misunderstood geneticist," Book Review. Nature Genetics 29, 115 (01 Oct
2001).
49. Pollack, R., 2002
50.
Pollack, R., 2002
51.
Pollack, R., 2003.
“The
fallacy of Biological Judaism.” Forward,
March 7, 2003.
52.
Pollack, R., 2003.
53.
Pollack, R., 2003.
54.
Pollack, R., 2004
“Crafting
a consensus on Therapeutic cloning,” Forward Newspaper, special Genetics
supplement, August 20, p. 1
55.
Pollack, R., 2004
“Crafting
a Consensus On Therapeutic Cloning,” The
Scientist. October 11.
56.
Pollack, R.. 2004
57.
Pollack, R., 2005
58.
Pollack, R., 2005
“A
Place for Religion in Science.” Crosscurrents
55.2 (Summer 2005). 252-262.
59.
Pollack, R., 2006
60. Pollack, R., 2006
61. Pollack, R., 2006
62.
Pollack, R., 2006
"The
Unknown, the Unknowable, and Free Will as a Religious Obligation," in
Science and the Spiritual Quest Boston Conference, Practicing Science, Living Faith, Columbia University Press, in
press.
63.
Pollack, R., 2006.
64.
Pollack, R. 2006
“Attending
to the pain of the dying: an agenda for science,” Crosscurrents 56.2 (Summer 2006).
65. Pollack, R. 2006.
“The Hollow Heart of Medical Science.”
Project Syndicate.
on
web at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pollack1
66.
Pollack, R. 2006.
67.
Pollack, R. 2006.
68.
Pollack, R. 2006.
69.
Pollack, R. 2006.
70.
Pollack, R. 2007.
“Director’s
Letter” CSSR Newsletter, Winter 2007.
71.
Clayton, P. and J. Schaal, eds. 2007.
72.
Pollack, R. 2007.
Preface,
Love and its Obstacles, Columbia
University e-Books, in preparation.
73.
Pollack, R. 2007.
“Editorial.”
Cross Currents 57 (Spring 2007): 7-9.
74.
Pollack, R. 2007.
75.
Pollack, R. 2007.
76. Williams, P. and Pollack, R. 2007.
Letter
to the Editor, Commentary July/August
2007.
77.
Pollack, R. 2008
“Knowing
Our Place,” Submitted to Christian
Century.
78.
McPhearson, P. Timon, Stuart P.D. Gill, Robert Pollack, and Julia E.
Sable. 2008.
79.
Pollack, R. 2008.
“Thoughts
on Human Genetics.” Review of Davenport’s
Dream: 21st Century Reflections
80.
Pollack, R. 2008
“Knowing
Our Place,” Submitted to Christian
Century.
81.
Pollack, R. and P. Williams 2008.
82.
Pollack, R. and A. Pollack. 2009.
“Our biology makes us all truly equal: 'race' is a persistent example of our imagination." Policy Innovations, a publication of the Carnegie Council. 19 May 2009.
83.
Pollack, R. 2009.
84.
Pollack, R. 2009.
“Natural Selection, the Human Genome, and the Idea of Race." (Abridged.) GeneWatch. 7 May 2009
85.
Pollack, R. 2009.
“Ethics informed by awe." Sh'ma. Oct. 2009/Cheshvan 5770.
86.
Pollack, R. 2009.
“Attending to the pain of dying: an agenda for science." J Med Pers (2009) 7:1–3. 25 May 2009.
1. Pollack, R. and
Pfeiffer, S., 1970.
Animal Cell Culture Cell Manual. Cold Spring Harbor:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
2. Hellman, S., Oxman, M., and Pollack,
R., eds., 1973.
Biohazards in Biological Research. Cold Spring Harbor:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
3. Pollack, R., ed.,
1973.
Readings in Mammalian Cell Culture. Cold Spring Harbor:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
1975; Revised First Edition.
1981; Second Edition.
4. Pollack, R., with
frontispiece by Amy Pollack, 1994.
Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin. Paperback edition 1995.
Other editions and translations:
1995: UK, Japan, Italy;
1996: Korea, Brazil;
1998: France, Taiwan;
1999: P. R. China.
2002: Czech Republic
reviewed on
WellcomeTrust, The Human Genome site
reviewed on
Foundations of Faith site
5. Pollack R., with
frontispiece by Amy Pollack, 1999.
The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious shapes Modern
Science. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
http://www.kosmas.cz/hledani_vysledek.asp?autor=Robert
Pollack
6. Pollack, R., with
frontispiece by Amy Pollack, 2000.
The 1999 Schoff Memorial
Lectures: The Faith of Biology and the
Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Science, New
York: Columbia University Press.
7. Pollack, R., ed.,
2007.
Love
and its Obstacles, proceedings of the first annual Fetzer Institute
Symposium, e-Book.
8. Pollack, R.
Best Practice: Science to End Poverty. Columbia University
Press,
In preparation.
9. Pollack, Amy, and R.
Pollack.
The
Grand Prince, Children’s book, In preparation.
10. Pollack, R., ed.,
2009.
Common Ground, proceedings of the fourth annual Fetzer Institute
Symposium, e-Book.
1. Pollack, R., H. Goldstein and J. Gross, 1981.
Syllabus, "Theory and Practice of Science."
2. J.L. Gross, R.E. Pollack and R.B. Blumberg, 1996.
3. Pollack, R., et al., 2002.
"Speaking of Faith," program on The Problem of Evil.
4. Pollack, R., 2003.
Advisor, "Race- Power of an illusion." California Newsreel film.
5. Pollack, R., 2005.
On "Leonard Lopate Show," WNYC. Science and Religion.
6. Pollack, R., 2006.
Essay in Chapter 11, "Thinking Critically," Chaffee, J., Cenage Online Study.
7. Pollack, R., 2009.
http://human-nature.com/books/genetics.html
2001, diPietro, M., Catholic Center for Bioethics, Review of "Signs of Life," in Italian
http://www.centrobioetica.org/med-morale/mm_recen/pollack.htm
2001, New York Times, "REDESIGNING NATURE: Hard Lessons Learned; Biotechnology Food: From the Lab to a Debacle."
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/business/redesigning-nature-hard-lessons-learned-biotechnology-food-lab-debacle.html?sec=health&pagewanted=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_z7j8TWE6E
2005, N. Y. times, "Mideast Tensions Are Getting Personal on Campus at Columbia"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E2D81238F93BA25752C0A9639C8B63
2009, Telerman, A., and R. Amson. The molecular programme of tumour reversion: the steps beyond
malignant transformation. Cancer 9: 206-215.
2009 Amazon Bibliography of Robert Pollack