CAS faculty fellows and associates announced Twenty-nine UI faculty members were selected as associates or fellows of the Center for Advanced Study for the 2007-2008 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 12 professors and associate professors receiving an associate appointment and 17 assistant professors receiving a fellow appointment. Six fellows also were named CAS Beckman Fellows. Named for UI alumnus and benefactor Arnold O. Beckman, the additional appointments recognized outstanding younger fellow candidates who have made distinctive scholarly contributions. The UI faculty members named associates and the research they intend to pursue:
- James R. Barrett, history, “Americanization From the Bottom, Up”
- Aida Xenia El-Khadra, physics, “High Precision Flavor Physics With Lattice QCD”
- Ying-yi Hong, psychology, “The Role of Essentialist Race Belief on Self and Identity Processes”
- Tony M. Liss, physics, “Searching for New Phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider”
- Craig C. Lundstrom, geology, “Re-evaluation of the Process Producing Earth’s Granites and Continental Crust”
- Romana Nowak, animal sciences, “Relationship Between Metabolic Syndrome and Uterine Leiomyomas”
- David Joseph O’Brien, art and design, “Delacroix and North Africa”
- Michel Regenwetter, psychology, “Behavioral Social Choice: Consensus Among Consensus Methods”
- Paul E. Schupp, math, “Algebraic, Computational and Geometric Properties of Random Groups”
- Danuta Renu Shanzer, classics, “The Origins of the Early Medieval Judicial Ordeal by Fire”
- Slawomir Solecki, math, “Metric Spaces and Combinatorics”
- Richard Sproat, linguistics and electrical and computer engineering, “Multi-agent Simulation of the Evolution of Complex Morphology”
The following UI assistant professors were named fellows, including those who received a Beckman appointment, and the research they intend to pursue:
- Beckman fellow: Eyal Amir, computer science, “Hard Problems for Artificial Intelligence, Easy Problems for Humans”
- Lynne M. Dearborn, architecture, “Culture, Space and Globalization: A Comparative Analysis of the Hmong”
- John C. Dencker, labor and industrial relations, “Generational Dynamics in the Workforce and Society”
- Frances Gateward, African-American Studies and Research Program and Unit for Cinema Studies, “Blacks and Jews: Cinematic Relations”
- Judith Gebauer, business administration, “What is the Economic Value of Flexibility?”
- Stephan Heilen, classics, “Golden Age or Cosmic Disaster? Early Modern Predictions for 1504”
- Lilya Kaganovsky, comparative and world literature and Slavic languages and literature, “The Voice of Technology and the End of Soviet Silent Film: 1928-1932”
- Brett Ashley Kaplan, comparative and world literature, “Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory”
- Marcus Keller, French, “Literary Nation Building in Times of Crisis: Imagining Early Modern France”
- Beckman fellow: Paul J.A. Kenis, chemical and biomolecular engineering, “A Photocatalytic Fuel Cell”
- Michael Kral, psychology, “Community Action Toward Suicide Prevention Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada”
- Dimitrios C. Kyritsis, mechanical science and engineering, “Clean and Efficient Micro-combustion for Power Generation”
- Beckman fellow: Christopher J. Leininger, math, “Mapping Class Groups and Kleinian Groups at MSRI”
- Beckman fellow: Benjamin John McCall, chemistry, “Spectroscopy of Carbocations in the Laboratory and the Interstellar Medium”
- Beckman fellow: Thomas Nevins, math, “Harmonic Analysis in Algebraic Geometry”
- Beckman fellow: Michelle Shumate, speech communication, “The Co-evolution of Nonprofit, Nongovernmental Organizing”
- Carol Symes, history, “A Modern War and the Medieval Past: The Middle Ages of World War I”
