Cornelia Channing

Cornelia "Nina" Channing (1938-1985) was an American professor of physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Her research focused on endocrinology and fertility; along with longtime collaborators Neena Schwartz and Darrell Ward, she was involved in the discovery of hormones involved in regulating the female reproductive cycle. She died of breast cancer in 1985.

Early life and education

Channing was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938. She received her bachelor's degree from Hood College in 1961 and her PhD in biochemistry from Harvard Medical School in 1965, advised by Claude Villee. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Cambridge.

Academic career

Channing returned to the US to serve as an instructor and later an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she spent seven years in total. In 1973 she moved to the University of Maryland as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 1976. Channing served on the board of directors of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in 1978-80 and was the recipient of its first Research Award in 1978. Channing was a close collaborator of endocrinologist Neena Schwartz, whose work on their shared research interests continued after Channing's death; along with other researchers including Darrell Ward, they identified the peptide hormone inhibin and worked out molecular mechanisms of hormonal signaling in the female reproductive cycle. Channing's interest in the biology of reproduction was motivated in part by an interest in contraceptive research.

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Channing (TV series)

Channing (also known as The Young and the Bold) is an hour-long American drama series that aired at 10:00 p.m. on American Broadcasting Company from September 18, 1963 to April 8, 1964. The series depicted life at fictitious Channing College, with Jason Evers in the lead role of Professor Joseph Howe, and Henry Jones as Fred Baker, the dean of the institution.

Channing, a production of Revue Studios, aired during the same time frame as the first season of NBC's somewhat similar offering, Mr. Novak.

Synopsis

According to the story line, Professor Howe had served in the Korean War and was writing a novel in his spare time. In a 1964 episode entitled "The Trouble with Girls", Keir Dullea and Mark Goddard appear as roommates who clash over a girl, Lynn Walton, played by Joey Heatherton. Dullea's character has a nervous breakdown and leaves college.

Don Gordon played Mario Saccone, a 37-year-old soldier who returns from South Vietnam and enters Channing College. This is more than a year before the large United States troop commitment to Southeast Asia and the subsequent breakdown in campus order at many institutions. Gordon is interested in the younger wife of an older political science professor named Jonathan Kobitz, played by Jacqueline Scott and Wendell Corey, respectively. Robert Lansing appeared as an alcoholic professor wrapped in self-pity. Rip Torn appeared as a graduate student with multiple degrees who remains at Channing because of his social life.