PWPA Interview – Professor Joseph Terwilliger: Genetics and Human Migration

Professor Joseph Terwilliger is a multi-faceted and multi-talented figure, fascinating in all the fields of his interests and professional pursuits and achievements.

Joseph Douglas Terwilliger is an American geneticist and professor of neurobiology at the Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In addition to his scientific research, he is known for accompanying retired basketball player Dennis Rodman on his visits to North Korea, where he serves as Rodman’s translator

In due course, the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) will interview Professor several more times to cover important topics of current concern. This first interview discusses the Genetics as an academic discipline, and touches on many of the unique areas of research in this area conducted by Professor Terwilliger.

During the Covid lockdown, Professor Terwilliger’s brass group , called Filmharmonic Brass, created a medley of film music offered as a tribute to essential workers. Here is that performance