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PUBLICATIONS
Inside
Illinois
Vol.
22, No. 5, Sept. 5, 2002
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NEWFaces2002
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addition to the fresh faces of incoming freshman and transfer
students, there are many other new faces on campus. The range
of new faculty members includes those with many years of teaching
and research experience as well as those just beginning their
careers. They enrich the university as well as the Champaign-Urbana
community. In keeping with the usual fall tradition, we feature
a few of these new colleagues here.
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TOM
G. DEMPSEY
is director of UI’s Police Training Institute.
Dempsey has 18 years of practical law enforcement
experience. He has spent 15 years developing, managing
and delivering criminal justice programs and has written
two textbooks and several journal articles. Education:
M.S. and M.P.A., California State, Long Beach; B.S.,
Arizona State. Special interests: ethics, online
protocols and internship programs.
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FAYE
DONG
is professor and head of the department of food science
and human nutrition in the College of Agricultural,
Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Dong is recognized
as a visionary leader in the field of nutrition. She
previously held leadership positions at the University
of Washington in Seattle, College of Ocean and Fishery
Sciences and the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.
Education: Ph.D., M.S. and B.S., University of California,
Davis. Research: Human and animal nutrition,
including published works about fish feeding and diet,
including nutritional and environmental concerns,
food safety and quality of aquacultured fish products.
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BRIAN
FREEMAN
is assistant professor of cell and structural biology
in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Education:
Ph.D., Northwestern; M.S., Florida State; B.S.,
University of Michigan. Research: Mechanisms by which
cellular signal transduction cascades regulate assembly
and disassembly of macromolecular complexes.
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KRISTINA
ASTRID HESBOL
is assistant professor of educational organization
(specialization/educational administration) in the
College of Education. Hesbol is a skilled and experienced
practitioner with vast experience in professional
development of teachers and administrators and consults
internationally in the area. Education: Ph.D., Loyola
University, Chicago; M.Ed., National-Louis University,
Evanston, Ill.; B.A., DePauw University, Greencastle,
Ind. Teaching: "The Principalship in Elementary
and Secondary Education," as well as courses
on organization and leadership. Areas of interest:
the principalship, organizational design and change,
school improvement and leadership theory.
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DAVID
IKENBERRY
is professor of finance in the College of Commerce
and Business Administration. Prior to coming to the
UI, Ikenberry was an associate professor of finance
at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
at Rice University. He also has served as a visiting
scholar at the University of Washington and an assistant
professor of finance at Rice. Education: Ph.D., University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.M., Northwestern
University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management;
B.S., Penn State. Teaching and Research: corporate
finance.
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JOAN
S. JORGENSEN
is assistant professor of veterinary biosciences,
in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Education:
DVM, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D. candidate,
Case Western Reserve University. Research: The effects
of sex steroids on gene expression. Jorgensen has
a Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08)
from the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic
Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, providing
support for her research through December 2003. Teaching:
Team-teaching "Pharmacology" I and II, both
required in the professional veterinary curriculum.
Later, she will be initiating a graduate course.
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KARL
KRAMER
is director and professor in the School of Music. "
Dr. Kramer’s experience, research, teaching and service
have shown his sustained commitment to making music and
in supporting faculty, students and other musicians in accomplishing
work of high quality," said Kathleen Conlin, dean of
the College of Fine and Applied Arts. "His remarkable
ability to maintain a rigorous performing schedule while
serving as an educator and administrator attests to his
dedication to the field." Education: D.M.A.,
Manhattan School of Music; M.M., Yale University; B.M.E.,
Temple University. Special interest: Kramer has been Principal
Tuba in the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the Connecticut
Grand Opera and the Brass Ring.
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HUI
LIAO
is assistant professor in the Institute of Labor and
Industrial Relations. "The knowledge base [of
employee performance and work teams] that Professor
Liao brings to our department is important and relevant
to our students and to the practitioners that collaborate
with our faculty," said Peter Feuille, director
of ILIR. Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota;
B.A., Renmin University of China. Research: Multilevel
analysis of behavior at work, employee well-being,
work teams, organizational restructuring and the impact
of HR practices on individual, group and organizational
outcomes. Teaching: Fall: "Understanding
and Managing Employee Performance"; spring: "Managing
Work Teams."
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MICHAEL
MOORE
is the Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Chair and co-director
of the College of Law Program in Law and Philosophy.
One of the country’s most prominent authorities
on the intersection of law and philosophy, Moore joined
the UI faculty as the first universitywide chair on
any of the three UI campuses. Teaching: "Legal
Issues in Entrepreneurship," (one of 10 offerings
under Law 373 "Current Legal Problems").
He regularly rotates his law teaching between the
first-year law courses of criminal law, torts, contracts,
property and constitutional law and in addition teaches
upper-year courses in jurisprudence and legal philosophy.
In philosophy he teaches undergraduate courses in
the philosophy of law, theory of action and metaphysics
of causation. Education: J.D. and S.J.G, Harvard.
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HARRIET
MURAV
is professor of Slavic languages and literatures and
of comparative and world literature in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Murav not only possesses
exceptionally deep and broad knowledge about 19th-
and 20th-century Russian literature, culture and intellectual
history, but she shows in her work a deep engagement
with cultural theory and with comparative cultural
and literary histories. Education: Ph.D., Stanford:
M.A. and B.A., University of Chicago. Research
interests: 19th- and 20th-century Russian literary
and cultural history. Teaching: "Studies in Russian
Literature and Society" (Russian 360/CompLit
340).
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NATASHA
NEOGI
is assistant professor of aeronautical and astronautical
engineering in the College of Engineering. Education:
Ph.D. and M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
M.S., Cambridge University, Newnham College (Cambridge,
England); B.S., McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Research: Aerospace software, innovative ways to discover
and eliminate hazards in large systems. Teaching:
"Undergraduate Open Seminar," "Aerospace
Dynamic Systems I and II," "Computational
Methods in Aerospace Engineering."
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CHAD
RIENSTRA
is assistant professor of chemistry in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Education: Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge;
B.A., Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn. Research:
The use of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy to determine the structures and dynamics
of biological macromolecules at atomic resolution.
Teaching: "Principles of Physical Chemistry."
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CARLA
SANTOS
is assistant professor of leisure studies in the College
of Applied Life Studies. SantosŐ innovative scholarship
focuses on the areas of culture, tourism and mass media.
Her most recent work has addressed the role of tourism in
promoting intercultural understanding. She will bring unique
strengths to the tourism and cultural diversity components
of the department. Santos will play a key role in research
and funding efforts related to the recently established
Cultural Diversity Laboratory. Education: Ph.D., Penn State;
M.A. and B.A., University of North Dakota. ent and leadership
theory.
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