Albey M. Reiner

Professor

Phone: 413-545-0087
Fax: 413-545-1578
Email: areiner@microbio.umass.edu
Mailing Address

Ph.D.: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1968

Teaching Interests

Most recognized course taught:

Microbiology 160 - Biology of Cancer and Aids (both semesters)

How cancer and AIDS begin and progress. The roles of individual cells, the immune system, mutations and viruses. How various physical and subtle factors influence one's chances of getting cancer. How to not get AIDS. The principles of vaccine development and why AIDS presents special difficulties. Established and new medical treatments for cancer and AIDS. What cancer and AIDS can teach us about health, healing, disease, living, and dying.

Major Awards and Recognitions

Massachusetts Teacher of the Year, 1993, Carnegie Foundation, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (C.A.S.E.).

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, 1975.

Contact Magazine, cover stories, January 1982 and Winter 1988.

"Teaching from the Heart: Professor fills hall for biology," Boston Sunday Globe feature story, October 31, 1993.

"The Best of Our Knowledge," ten minute interview on National Public Radio syndicated program, January 1994.

"Albey Reiner's Popular Lessons in Mortality," cover story, Hampshire Life (Hampshire Gazette), October 28, 1994.

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College of Natural Sciences
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University of Massachusetts
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