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CAS associates and fellows named

Twenty-three UI faculty members were selected as associates or fellows of the Center for Advanced Study for the 2003-04 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 13 professors and associate professors receiving an associate appointment and 10 assistant professors receiving a fellow appointment. Three associates and six 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. UI faculty members named associates, including those who received a Beckman appointment, and the research they intend to pursue:

  • Jay D. Bass, geology, “Properties of Minerals at Extreme Pressures and Temperatures, and the Nature of the Deep Earth.”
  • Anne Burkus-Chasson, art and design, “Technologies of Vision in Late Imperial China.”
  • You-Hua Chu, astronomy, “Hot Interstellar Gas in Galaxies.”
  • Beckman associate: Noshir Contractor, speech communication, “Emergence of Knowledge Networks in 21st Century Organizational Forms.”
  • Beckman associate: Martin H. Gruebele, chemistry, “Molecule-field Quantum Coherence.”
  • C. Jaeger, Germanic languages and literatures and Program in Comparative and World Literature, “The Romance of Violence: Theories of Violent Origins From Nietzsche to Rene Girard and Walter Burkert.”
  • Robin L. Jarrett, human and community development, “Lives of Struggle, Lives of Hope: Resilient, Single Mothers in a Low-Income Housing Project.”
  • William A. Kinderman, music, “Wagner’s Parsifal: Genesis, Form, and Drama.”
  • Timothy G. McCarthy, philosophy, “Understanding Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem.”
  • Beckman associate: Pierre Moulin, electrical and computer engineering, “Theoretical Foundations of Image Steganography.”
  • Wayne T. Pitard, Program for the Study of Religion, “Whispers from the Dust: Care of the Dead and Thoughts on Afterlife in Ancient Canaan and Israel.”
  • D. Fairchild Ruggles, landscape architecture, “Matronage in Islam.”
  • Albert J. Valocchi, civil and environmental engineering, “Pore-Scale Simulation of Groundwater Contaminant Transport Processes.”

Assistant professors named fellows, including those who received a Beckman appointment, and the research they intend to pursue:

  • Kate E. Abramson, philosophy, “The Artifice of Nature in Hume’s Moral Theory: From Philosopher to Reflective Man.”
  • Alexey Bezryadin, physics, “Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Ultrathin Superconducting Wires.”
  • Beckman fellow: Gauri Bhattacharya, social work, “Asian Immigrants’ Health and Acculturation: Rethinking the Adaptation Process.”
  • Joshua D. Esty, English, “Unseasonable Youth: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity.”
  • Beckman fellow: Zsusza Gille, sociology, “Apples and Waste: Understanding the Environmental Implications of Hungary’s Entry Into the European Union.”
  • Beckman fellow: Mary S. Gin, chemistry, “Design and Synthesis of an ATP-activated Transmembrane Ion Channel.”
  • Beckman fellow: Taekjip Ha, physics, “Probing Motions of Individual Holiday Junctions.”
  • Beckman fellow: Eberhard F. Morgenroth, civil and environmental engineering, animal sciences, “Mechanisms of coexistence in Binary Culture Biofilms.”
  • Beckman fellow:Wanda S. Pillow, educational policy studies, “Tracing Meanings of the 1804 Corps Expedition: Stories of Manifest Destiny, Confluence of Cultures, and Invasion.”
  • Allison M. Ryan, educational psychology, “Social Resources in the Classroom: An Examination of Classroom Characteristics that Promote Equity.”

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CAS associates and fellows named

By Sharita Forrest, Assistant Editor (217) 244-1072; slforres@illinois.edu

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