She and her husband, Paul Primakoff, worked in the same department at the University of Connecticut. When they moved to Davis in 1996, she went to the biology department, and he got a job at the medical school, where he is a professor of cellular biology and human anatomy. The two still share laboratories, where they do research on human reproduction. But Ms. Myles misses the closeness of being in the same department. If something came up, and you didn't like it or you were excited about it, you always had someone to talk to who cared.
Academic relationships work in large part because couples respect one another's talents.
Their ability to take cues Kerry Bowman, Black Star, for The Chronicle Michigan told Peggie J. Hollingsworth she had to leave the lab of her husband, Charles Smith. Robert Bode and his partner, Lee Thompson, are associate professors of music at Whitman College, where Mr. Bode conducts the chorus, while Mr. Thompson accompanies the group on the piano. Even before I tell the chorus what they need to work on, he's giving them the pitch for that spot. Leslie L. Parrott knows the feeling. She's been friends with her closest colleague, her husband, Les Parrott, since 1978, when she was 14 years old and he was 17.