Illinois State University s Department of Biological Sciences will
host a presentation by alum James Gentile on Friday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m. in
room 121 of the Science Laboratory Building. Gentile s presentation, which
is free and open to the public, will address Education and the Future of
the Science and Technology Workforce in the United States.
Gentile received his bachelor s, master s and doctoral degrees in biological sciences at Illinois State. He is president of Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of sciences and previously held an endowed professorship in biology and served for 12 years as dean for the Natural Sciences at Hope College in Holland, Mich. Gentile spent two years in postdoctoral studies in the Department of Human Genetics at Yale School of Medicine before assuming his position at Hope College. Gentile and his colleagues were the first to define the unique processes through which plant systems use their unique biochemistry to metabolize agents into carcinogens that can affect humans, and his current research involves the role of chronic inflammation in mammals and cancer causation. Gentile has received the Medallions of Scientific Achievement from the National Cancer Institute of Japan and from the Provincia Di Pisa, Italy and the Alexander Hollaender Research Excellence Award from the Environmental Mutagen Society. He has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.
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