Address:  Department of Zoology and Genetics
                 Iowa State University
                 Ames, IA 50011-3223

                  231 Parkridge Circle
                  Ames, IA 50014

Telephone :       (515)-294-8676  Office
Email:                racker@iastate.edu

Birth :               4 March, 1945, Norwich, United Kingdom, U.S. Citizen

High School:       Moon High School, Pittsburgh, PA  Graduated 1963

University:          Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
                            Graduated with Honors in Zoology, 1967

Military Service:  U.S. Army, Active Duty, 1969-1971
                              Honorable Discharge, 1974
                              Overseas Duty with 2nd Med. Bn, 2nd Infantry Division

Postgraduate:  Ph.D. 1975, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Postdoctoral: Department of Physiology, SUNYAB, Buffalo, NY, 1975-1977

Employment: 1990-present  Professor, Department of Zoology and Genetics, Iowa                       State University

                       1991-1992     Visiting Research Fellow
                       Dept. of Cell and Structural Biology, Manchester University, UK

                       1985-1990     Associate Professor
                       Department of Zoology, Iowa State University

                       1981-1985     Assistant Professor
                       Department of Zoology, Iowa State University

                       1977-1981     Assistant Research Physiologist
                       Physiological Research Laboratory
                       Scripps Institution of Oceanography
                       Univ. Calif., San Diego