Freie Universität Berlin David B. Fankhauser, PhD Professor of Biology and Chemistry U.C. Clermont College Batavia OH 45103
My colleagues at Freie Universität Berlin	Created 7 November 2006 This page has been accessed  times since 7 November 2006.	A view of the Friday Histology class

These pictures were taken during a sabbatical project at the Freie Universität Berlin in which I collaborated with the faculty and exchanged ideas about teaching laboratories in histology and anatomy.
I am grateful to Professor Johanna Plendl for the invitation, to the faculty for their unwavering good humor and eagerness to assist me, hampered by "mein ganz schlect Deutch, and most warmly grateful to the many veterinary students who never ceased to amaze me with their excellent command of English, their eagerness to learn, and their good humor and tolerance for my unorthodox style of teaching. (They thought it was a hoot.)

Berlin has much to teach America about making bicycle transportation easy, convenient and relatively safe. Streets either have lanes devoted to bicycles (and marked with bike stencils) or marked lanes on the sidewalks for bikes (don't walk there unattentively...). I made good use of them bicycling to the Universitat, weather permitting. Otherwise, I took the rapid, smooth and convenient Ubahn--Berlin's subway.

My two primary hosts, Professor Johanna Plendl and Dr. Mondy Bahramsoltani. They could not have been more good natured and supportive:

The Freie Universität Berlin campus which houses the Veterinary College is located in a neighborhood of luxurious houses from the early 1920s. The university buildings are typical of construction in the 50s and 60s:

Here are some pictures of the Friday Histology class:

And here are some images of the Tuesday Histology Lab:

Here is the office they generously provided for me during my sabbatical project, complete with some amazing friends just outside my window! You can imagine my surprise the first time I saw them!

They presented me with an extrordinary and rare slide of the embryonic development of the forelimb of the cat:

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