JOHN B - Key Persons

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Vice President

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• Director Emeritus
• Fellow
• Fellow of the John B. Pierce Laboratory

Dr. Green has been a Fellow of the John B. Pierce Laboratory since 1996 and served as its Director from 2009 through 2016. He first came to the laboratory in 1975 as a postdoctoral fellow in the psychology group, working on topics in tactile and thermal psychophysics. He continued his postdoctoral work on tactile psychophysics at Princeton University before moving to Indiana University in 1980 to conduct a research project on the communication of speech information through the skin. In 1983 Dr. Green took a faculty position at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, PA. While at Monell Dr. Green developed a research program on sensory interactions between chemical irritants and the senses of taste, temperature, and pain which led to the concept of chemesthesis. After returning to the Pierce Laboratory, Dr. Green continued his work on chemesthesis while developing a new program on spatial and temporal factors that affect the sensitivity to temperature and pain. Research in his laboratory now focuses on studies of human taste, flavor, and chemesthesis and the relation of these sensitivities both to current theories of sensory mechanisms and to their roles in driving the consumption of foods and tobacco products (e.g. e-cigarettes).

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• Chairman
• Chairman of Diversity Committee

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Treasurer

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• Associate
• Research Scientist

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• Chairman of Diversity Committee

John Bartlett Pierce was born on June 2, 1844, in Embden, Maine, and began his business career as a storekeeper in Buffalo, New York. Recognizing the ingenuity and value of steam heat in the chilly north, he started a boiler factory. The Pierce Steam Heating Company manufactured and sold steam and hot water heating devices, including radiators. In 1892, Pierce merged independent manufacturers into the American Radiator Company. The success of the American Radiator Company is reflected today both in its historic home, the American Radiator Building of 1924, which overlooks Bryant Park in New York City, and even more so through its merger in 1929 with the Standard Sanitary Co. that created American Standard, Inc. Pierce remained thrifty throughout his life and refused to use his wealth to dominate the industry that he had established. Forever the Vice President of his own company, he did not create a family dynasty, and although he married twice, he was childless at his death on June 23, 1917. Pierce named more than 400 friends and employees in his will, bequeathing them over a million dollars in shares of American Radiator Company stock. In his will, Pierce established a fund to be administered and governed by three friends and business associates. In 1924, the John B. Pierce Foundation was formally established with the following Charter: to promote research, educational, technical, or scientific work in the general field of heating, ventilation and sanitation, for the increase of knowledge to the end that the general hygiene and comfort of human beings and their habitations may be advanced. In 1933, the John B. Pierce Laboratory (originally the John B. Pierce Laboratory of Hygiene) was established adjacent to the Yale School of Medicine with the broader mission "to promote research for the increase of knowledge to the end that human health and comfort are advanced." Charles-E.A. Winslow, chairman of Yale's Department of Public Health and considered the father of public health, was named as the first Director of the Laboratory

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• Director
• DSc, MSc, AGAF, FRSM, Director

Diversity enriches life. We learn from those whose experiences, beliefs, and perspectives are different from our own. As such, Diversity promotes personal growth, challenges stereotyped preconceptions, encourages critical thinking and improves communication with people of varied backgrounds. All of these lessons are taught best in a richly diverse intellectual and social environment; one that reflects the rich and diverse country and world in which we live. The Pierce Diversity Committee is charged with advising the Director on issues related to achieving cultural diversity within the Pierce Laboratory. Areas of purview include but are not limited to: 1) recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority faculty and staff; 2) building a supportive environment in which diversity can thrive and which promotes mutual understanding and tolerance as a condition of academic freedom. The Pierce Diversity Committee would like to hear from faculty and staff about what we are doing well and how we might improve in our efforts to promote diversity at the Pierce laboratory. Please send any comments to diversity@jbpierce.

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• Fellow
• Associate Professor of Neuroscience

Verhagen, J. V. (2015). A Role for Lung Retention in the Sense of Retronasal Smell. Chemosensory Perception, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12078-015-9181-z Verhagen, J. V., & Katz, D. B. (2007). More Time to Taste. Focus on "Variability in Responses and Temporal Coding of Tastants of Similar Quality in the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract of the Rat". Journal of Neurophysiology, 99 Kadohisa, M., Rolls, E. T., & Verhagen, J. V. (2004). Orbitofrontal Cortex: Neuronal Representation of Oral Temperature and Capsaicin in Addition to Taste and Texture. Neuroscience, 127(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.04.037 Scott, T. R., & Verhagen, J. V. (2000). Taste as a Factor in the Management of Nutrition. Nutrition, 16(10). https://doi.org/10.1016/s0899-9007(00)00423-8

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Vice President

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• Director Emeritus and Fellow Emeritus

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• President

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• Accountant / Business Office / EXT. 245

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• IACUC Director

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• FCCP, FAASM

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• Member of the Board of Directors
• Secretary