Selected Publications by Robert Finn

"As Alzheimer's Studies Progress, Debate On Cause Persists" The Scientist. January 20, 1997.

"Few Natural Science Classes Affected By Teaching Assistant Strike In Calif." The Scientist. January 6, 1997.

"The Key To A Happy, Productive Lab: Let Scientists Lead Themselves" The Scientist. December 9, 1996.

"Scientists Have Many Choices For Math, Stat, And Graphing Software" The Scientist. November 25, 1996.

"Academic Job Security Threatened As Anti-Tenure Wave Sweeps U.S. " The Scientist. November 11, 1996.

"NIH 'Reinventing' An Expanding SBIR Program" The Scientist. October 28, 1996.

"Ongoing Enzyme Patent Dispute May Have Ramifications For Academic Researchers" The Scientist. October 14, 1996.

"Opinions Differ On The Features Of A Well-Done Scientific Biography" The Scientist. September 30, 1996.

"Scientists Report That Communicating With Congress Is Simple, Effective" The Scientist. September 16, 1996.

"Peter Principles" (male genital health) Men's Fitness. September 1996.

"Reports Give Boost To Xenotransplantation As Researchers Wait For Federal Guidelines" The Scientist. August 19, 1996.

"Scientific Publishers Increasing Electronic Information Offerings" The Scientist. August 19, 1996.

"New Animal Care Guide Leaves Details To Scientists' Discretion" The Scientist. July 22, 1996.

"Bibliographic Software Adding New Features, Becoming Web Savvy" The Scientist. July 8, 1996.

"Academic Biologists Finding Many Rewards In Consulting For Industry" The Scientist. June 10, 1996.

"Ray Ban" (sunburn and sunscreens) Men's Fitness. June 1996.

"Teaching Assistant Union Battles Heating Up Across United States" The Scientist. April 29, 1996.

"Exploring Materials In A Simulated World" IBM Research. Number 1, 1996.

"April Is High Season For Practical Jokers In The Lab" The Scientist. April 1, 1996.

"Don't Feel The Burn" (heartburn remedies) Men's Fitness. April 1996.

"Libel Concerns Are A Reality For Scientists Who Speak Out In Public" The Scientist. March 18, 1996.

"Researchers' Home Pages Serve Scientific, Educational, Personal Goals" The Scientist. February 19, 1996.

"Image Analysis Software Advances Biomedical Research Applications" The Scientist. February 19, 1996.

"Biological Determination of Sexuality Heating Up As A Research Field" The Scientist. January 8, 1996.

"Scientists Benefit As Life Science Companies Stream To The Web" The Scientist. January 8, 1996.

"Kings of Hearts" (profiles of three cardiologists) Men's Fitness. December 1995.

"Scientists' Heated Debate on Immigration Mirrors Issues Argued Throughout U.S." The Scientist. November 27, 1995.

"Scientists Can Get A First-Rate Deal With Second-Hand Lab Equipment" The Scientist. November 27, 1995.

"Study Finds Gender Disparity Even Among High Achievers In Science" The Scientist. November 13, 1995.

"Michigan State University Patent Dispute Illustrates Changes In Technology Transfer" The Scientist. October 30, 1995.

"Neuroscience Meeting To Feature Feisty Debate on Alzheimer's Etiology" The Scientist. October 16, 1995.
*This article won a Merit Award in the 1996 Publications Contest of the Society for Technical Communications.

"More CD-ROM Science Journals Available, But Has The Wave Crested?" The Scientist. October 16, 1995.

"Head Bangers" (concussion) Men's Fitness. October 1995.

"Ag Biotech Firms Lag In Regaining Investors' Favor" The Scientist. September 18, 1995.

"NIH Study Section Members Acknowledge Major Flaws In The Reviewing System" The Scientist. August 21, 1995.

"Finding Full-Featured Free Software For Biologists On The Internet" The Scientist. July 24, 1995

"MBA Programs Expand Career Prospects For Cross-Trained Scientists" The Scientist. June 26, 1995.

"Lifeline" (how to research your own medical condition) Men's Fitness. June 1995.

"Discouraged Job-Seekers Cite Crisis in Science Career Advice" The Scientist. May 29, 1995.

"Finding Good Scientific Career Advice When Job Prospects Are Tight" The Scientist. May 29, 1995.

"Layoffs in Biotechnology Signify Growing Pains For an Industry in Transition, Analysts Contend" The Scientist. May 1, 1995.

"Surviving the Hard Times in Biotechnology Requires a Broad Outlook" The Scientist. May 1, 1995.

"Superhighway or Supercollider? Finding Useful Internet Information" The Scientist. April 3, 1995.

"Building Professional Success as a Minority Scientist, Person- To-Person" The Scientist. March 6, 1995.

"Up in Smoke" (latest on the health effects of tobacco and second-hand smoke) Men's Fitness. February 1995.

"Career-Building Sites on the Internet: Hunting for Jobs Electronically" The Scientist. January 23, 1995.

"Joint of No Return" (elbow injuries) Men's Fitness. January 1995.

"Toxic Fumes Mystery Revealed" Family Practice. December 5, 1994.

"Mega Hurts" (latest in pain research and prevention) Men's Fitness. November 1994.

"The Health-Care Crisis and How to Protect Yourself" Men's Fitness. October, 1994.

"Code Blue" (choosing an emergency room) Men's Fitness. August 1994.

"Toxic Fumes Fell Emergency Room" Family Practice. August 1, 1994.

"Spill-proof Skating" (avoiding in-line skating injuries) Men's Fitness. June 1994.

"Fracture Fixers" (bone morphogenetic protein) Men's Fitness. May 1994.

"Brainstorms" (review of Seized: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon by Eve LaPlante) Technology Review. February/March 1994.

"Corporate Board Membership: Enriching In More Ways Than One" The Scientist. January 10, 1994.

"Experts Advise Job Seekers: Try a Variety of Techniques" The Scientist. October 18, 1993.

"Poster Sessions Can Lead To Networking Opportunities" The Scientist. January 25, 1993.

"Caltech's Rudolph Marcus on Thirty Years of Theoretical Breakthroughs" Science Watch. November 1992.

"Rumblings Grow About Parkfield In Wake of First Earthquake Prediction" Nature. October 29, 1992.

"Different Minds" (Williams Syndrome) Discover. June 1991.

"Interesting Times in Geophysics" (the interior of the Earth). Engineering & Science. Spring 1988.

"Core Temperature" Engineering & Science. June 1987.

"Genes, Incorporated" Engineering & Science. March 1987.

"The Experts Speak" (professors as expert legal witnesses) Engineering & Science. January 1987. (Reprinted in The Expert and the Law, April 1987)

"Potential Planets?" (discovery of a possible planetary system) and "Echoes of the Earth's Core" (mountains and valleys on the core) Engineering & Science. January 1987.

"Smog -- In Bags and Balances" (air quality research) and "One Genome, Fully Deciphered" (mitochondrial DNA) Engineering & Science. November 1986.

"Guessing a Hazard" (earthquake predictions) and "Tracking Stellar Reactions" (fusion research) Engineering & Science. September 1986.

"The Tax Compliance Game" Engineering & Science. March 1986.

"Travels of a Terrane" (plate tectonics) and "The Neuron-Silicon Connection" Engineering & Science. March 1986.

"To Shop or Not to Shop" (experimental economics) and "Comet Composition" (Halley's comet) Engineering & Science. January 1986.

Review of "Beyond the Helix: DNA and the Quest for Longevity" by Carol Kahn. Los Angeles Times Book Review. November 10, 1985.

"Interstellar SURFing" Engineering & Science. November 1985.

"A New Infectious Agent" (prions) and "A New Cellular Organelle" (spliceosomes). Engineering & Science. November 1985.

"Origins of Speech" Science Digest. August 1985.

"Ghostbusters!" (The Southern California Skeptics Society) Engineering & Science. May 1985.

"Making Waves" (tsunami research) and "Fly Antibodies and Human Brains: A Marriage of Ideas" Engineering & Science. May 1985.

"The Martians Have Landed" (investigations of meteorites of apparently Martian origin) Engineering & Science. March 1985.

"The W.M. Keck Observatory" Engineering & Science. January 1985.

"Memory" Science Digest. November 1983.

"New Split Brain Research Divides Scientists" Science Digest. September 1983.

"A Brief Introduction to Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy" Beckman Instruments, Inc.: Fullerton, CA., 1983, 12pp.

"A Brief Introduction to Infrared Spectroscopy" Beckman Instruments, Inc.: Fullerton, CA., 1983, 19 pp.

"A Brief Introduction to Ultraviolet/Visible Spectroscopy" Beckman Instruments, Inc.: Fullerton, CA., 1983, 21 pp.

"Cal Biotech, with recombinant DNA stars Baxter and Shine, backed by E.F. Hutton" Genetic Engineering News. November/December 1982.

"Interferons under evaluation in cancer therapy tests at USC" Genetic Engineering News. September/October 1982.

Concepts of Basic Chemistry: A Programmed Text. Beckman Instruments, Inc.: Fullerton, CA., 1981, 316 pp.

Finn, R., Browning, M., & Lynch, G. (1980) Trifluoperazine inhibits hippocampal long-term potentiation and the phosphorylation of a 40,000 dalton protein. Neuroscience Letters 19:103-108.

Kane, E.S., & Finn, R. (1977) Descending and intrinsic connections to dorsal cochlear nucleus of cats: A horseradish peroxidase study. Neuroscience 2:897-912.