PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 16, March 21, 2002

CAS faculty fellows and associates announced

By Kesha Green, News Bureau Staff Writer
(217) 244-0470; k-green3@illinois.edu

Thirty UI faculty members were selected as associates or fellows of the Center for Advanced Study for the 2002-2003 academic year.

The appointment grants one semester of release time for creative work on self-initiated programs of scholarly research or professional activity. The center’s annual competition culminated with 18 professors and associate professors receiving an associate appointment and 12 assistant professors receiving a fellow appointment.

Three associates and seven fellows also received Beckman appointments. Named for UI alumnus and benefactor Arnold O. Beckman, the additional appointments recognized outstanding younger candidates who have made distinctive scholarly contributions.

The following UI faculty members were named associates, including those who received a Beckman appointment, and the research they intend to pursue:

• Jean Allman, history, "TONG: Of Rituals, Resistance and Trans-Migration in West Africa, 1800-2000"
  
  
• Stanley Ambrose, anthropology, "Bones of Retention: Reconstructing Life from the Elemental and Isotopic Composition of Fossils"
  
  
• Jay Bass, geology, "Properties of Minerals at Extreme Pressures and Temperatures and the Nature of the Deep Earth"
  
  
• Andrea Beller, agricultural and consumer economics, "Father Involvement and Child Support Payments: Second Families, Multiple-Father Families and Interstate Enforcement"
  
  
• Bruce Berndt, mathematics, "Proving the Claims Made by Ramanujan in His Lost Notebook"
  
  
• Brenda Farnell, anthropology, "Speech, Gesture, Space in American Indian Communities"
  
  
• Anne Hedeman, art and design, "Visual Translation and the First French Humanists"
  
  
• Valerie Hoffman, religion, "Muslim Scholars and Saints of Oman and Zanzibar, 1831-1925"
  
  
• Beckman associate: Yonggang Young Huang, mechanical and industrial engineering, "Electrical Properties of Distorted Carbon Nanotubes: A Nanoscale Continuum Theory Based on Atomistic Models"
  
  
• Sheldon Jacobson, mechanical and industrial engineering, "Aviation Security Problems and Solutions"
  
  
• Stephen Levinson, electrical and computer engineering, "Mathematical Models of Language"
  
  
• Mark Micale, history, "Hysterical Males: Medicine and Masculine Nervous Illness from the Renaissance to Freud"
  
  
• Ian Robinson, physics, "Structure of the Critical Nucleation Phase in Biocrystals"
  
  
• Beckman associate: Karen Rudolph, psychology, "Peer Victimization and Children’s Development"
  
  
• Sonya Salamon, human and community development, "Galvanized Ghettoes: Trailer Parks, A New Rural Community Form"
  
  
• Kenneth Suslick, chemistry, "Colorimetric Array Sensors: Smell Seeing"
  
  
• Thomas Turino, music, "Music and Social Participation"
  
  
• Beckman associate: Venugopal Veeravalli, electrical and computer engineering, "Theoretical Foundations for Distributed Sensor Systems"
  
  
  The following UI assistant professors were named fellows, including those who received a Beckman appointment, and the research they intend to pursue: