Professor Emeritus in Microbiology and Chemistry
Northwestern Connecticut Community College
Contact Professor Edward P. Bollenbach
V I T A
Edward P. Bollenbach graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Biology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, New York in 1968. Worked as a Research Assistant in Pesticide Research at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research from 1968-1969. Graduated with a Master of Arts in Biology from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1971. Worked with a Teaching Assistantship in Microbiology, which required teaching two sections of Microbiology Lab at New Paltz in 1970-71. Worked as a Research Assistant at The Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station in Highland, New York in 1970. The work with Cornell involved evaluating fungicides and their field testing.
The Topic of his Masters Thesis was Bacterial Degradation of 2,4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. The work resulted in the isolation of a new species of bacteria which degraded this pesticide. He was subsequently employed as an Instructor of Biology at Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted in 1971. In 1973 he was an NSF grant recipient and attended a National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Cryptogamic Botany at the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville. He has also completed short courses sponsored by the National Science Foundation in "Origins of Life" at Hampshire College, and Holistic Health at the University of Hartford.
In 1990 he was awarded the first "Educational Excellence and Distinguished Service Award" by the Board of Trustees for Regional Community Colleges in Connecticut. At Northwestern he has taught the following courses:
- General Biology I
- General Biology II
- General Microbiology
- Food Sanitation
- Contemporary Health Problems
- Stress Management
- Jazz Listening
- Fundamentals of Chemistry
- General Chemistry I
- General Chemistry II
- General Zoology Laboratory
- Mushroom Identification
The last course listed, in Mushroom Identification, was taught as a Community Service offering by the College. This course was also taught for the International Elderhostel in Fall of 1985 in Colebrook CT.
Publications
- Late Functional Loss in Nonparalytic Polio, Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2000 Jan-Feb;79(1):19-23.
- Enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Disability Rag, Nov/Dec 1995
- Teaching with a Disability, Communitas Journal of Connecticut Community Colleges, 1987
- Teaching Stress Management in the Community College Environment, Communitas, 1982
Program Development Formulated, researched, recommended, and developed the Northwestern's Medical Assisting Program.
Special Certificates
National Science Foundation Certificates for work in:
- Cryptogamic Botany from The University of Tennessee 1973.
- Origins of Life from Hampshire College 1977.
- Holistic Health from The University of Hartford 1980.
Awards
- Educational Excellence and Distinguished Service Award 1990 Northwestern Connecticut Community College.
- Paralytic Polio in May of 1954 at age 7 (was a control {placebo} for Salk vaccine a month earlier).
- Athletic Lifestyle from 1964-1982: Swimming, Cycling, Cross Country Skiing etcetera.
- 1982 Post Polio Syndrome. Currently use a motorized scooter for mobility and an adapted van for travel.
- Still Swims
- Long-time, respected, participant on PPS related email lists
Teaching with Technology: He was granted a half year sabbatical in 1996 during which he explored the utility of the Internet for Teaching Chemistry, Microbiology and Biology. This learning involved consultation with individuals on-line, the use of Listserv mailing lists, File Transfer Protocol, searching Internet resources in Chemistry, Biology, and Microbiology, and, ultimately, writing a manual on the use of the Vax, a command line based computer system, to derive information and programs in Chemistry and Biology from the Internet.
During the 1998-99 year he developed Web sites in General Chemistry, General Biology, Microbiology, and Fundamentals of Chemistry. These sites contain interactive hypertext lecture notes, links to sources of information, and links to software downloads which enable laboratory science work, resource information, and lecture illustration material for all of the above courses. In these science courses he has used the Internet as a resource in teaching, particularly during the Fall of 1998. He has illustrated complex systems with multimedia (for example, watching electrons change energy levels while absorbing or emitting energy), used graphics to illustrate structures of cells, and a program called Chime to demonstrate conformations of molecules in 3 dimension. From Fall of 1998 to December, 98 his science web sites have been visited about 1000 times since their creation, by those seeking information in the above topics. The Home Page address which leads to all of these linked pages is: www.angelfire.com/mi/nccc
Other Edward Bollenbach files on the web:
- Biology of Fatigue
- Cause of PPS: Some of What is Known and Not Known
- Central Fatigue, Lesions? and PPS
- Cholesterol Medications and Polio Survivors
- CoQ10, Cholesterol Medications and Polio Survivors
- Definitions of Non-Paralytic and Paralytic Polio
- Diagnostic Categories For Initial Polio Infection & PPS Diagnosis
- Examining a Controversial PPS Publication Rebutal to Sorenson et al Study published in the Sept. 2006 "Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System" and Mayo's news release. Co-Authored with Marcia Falconer, PhD. [text version]
- Genetics of the Post-Polio Syndrome
- Holistic Polio
- How To Avoid Limiting Variables While Exercising
- Introduction to the (Polio) Virus
- The Myth of In-Utero Polio
- New Ideas of Polio Infection
- also see: New Knowledge about Cholesterol Drugs and Muscle Problems Q&A with PHI
- New Models PPS & RNA/Viruses/PPS
- New Understanding of Statin Induced Muscle Problems
- Non-Paralytic Polio and PPS (co-authored)
- No Such thing as Post-Polio Syndrome? (co-authored)
- Peering at Post-Polio Syndrome under the Microscope
- Physiatrist or Neurologist?
- Polio And Limiting Variables
- Polio & Medical Problems of Offspring
- Polio Biology of Fatigue, is there New Hope?
- Polio in 2013. Where are we and what is the strategic plan?
- Polio Vaccines Explained: Salk vs Sabin
- Post-Polio Pathogenesis
- Post-Polio Syndrome's Elusive Etiology
- PPS and Blood Pressure Medicines
- PPS: Beta Blockers, Calcium Channnel Blockers, Ace Inhibitors & Angiotensin Receptor Blockers
- PPS: Confronting Fatigue
- PPS: Exercise & Stress tests - Harmful or Beneficial?
- PPS: Fatigue/Exhaustion
- PPS Fatigue and NADH
- PPS: immune activated? Incident triggered?
- PPS: Inflamation/immune/auto-immune response?
- PPS: Looking Ahead-Mutated Virus Genes
- PPS: Manual Muscle Testing Problems Arise From Judgement & Biology
- PPS: Possible Cause and Effect (co-authored)
- PPS: Stress tests & exercise - Harmful or Beneficial?
- PPS Survey Information
- HTMLed version (co-authored) - Older browsers may have problems
- Straight text version
- PPS and The Sympathetic Nervous System
- PPS: Swimming & Aquatic Therapy (co-authored)
- PPS Symptoms vs Aging
- Post-Polio Syndrome vs Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- The Polio War & Vaccine Strategy
- Preface to Scientific American Paper on Neurogenesis
- Research & PPS
- Stem Cell Therapy For Post-Polio Syndrome?
- Stem Cell Therapy for Post-Polio Syndrome - PDF FILE
- Trauma as a trigger for PPS?
- Types, Kinds Catagories of Polio (co-authored)
- We Aren't Research Orphans Despite Little Research on Polio
- What About If We Need The (Polio) Virus Later?
- Why Bipolar Disorder and Epilepsy Research Has Helped Post-Polio Syndrome
- Why PPS Is So Hard to Understand