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CAS fellows, associates named

The Center for Advanced Study at the UI recently appointed 17 faculty members as fellows and associates for the fall semester. Selected through a competitive process, CAS fellows and associates get one semester of release time to pursue scholarly research or professional activity, present their work to other CAS professors, and participate in CAS events.

The deadline to apply for spring CAS appointments is Oct. 11.

The newly appointed associates, their departments and the titles of their proposed studies:

  • Dolores Albarracin, psychology, “Action and Inaction Goals and Change in Socially Relevant Attitudes”
  • Harry Dankowicz, mechanical science and engineering, “The Tendency of Complex Systems to Evolve Toward Collapse”
  • David Hyman, law, “Medical Malpractice Claiming in Illinois, 1980-2008”
  • Praveen Kumar, civil and environmental engineering, “Water Cycle: Predicting the Consequences of Change”
  • John W. Randolph, history, “The Singing Coachmen and the Society of the Road in the Early Russian Empire”
  • Bruce A. Reznick, mathematics, “Sums of Powers of Polynomials”
  • Kenneth S. Suslick, chemistry, “Smell-Seeing: An Optoelectronic Nose”
  • The new fellows, their departments and the titles of their proposed studies are:
  • Fatima Husain, speech and hearing science, “Connectivity of Brain Regions Affected by Hearing Loss and Tinnitus”
  • Daniel Korman, philosophy, “Strange Kinds and Familiar Kinds”
  • Andrew Leakey, Beckman fellow, plant biology, “Opening the Black Box of Plant Responses to Global Environmental Change with Genomic Tools”
  • Adrienne Lo, anthropology, “Speaking Korean, Becoming Asian American: Language and the Moral Self in a California Ethnoburb”
  • Nadya Mason, physics, “Studies of Novel Electronic States in Hybrid Material Systems”
  • Eric Pop, electrical and computer engineering, “Energy Dissipation in Electronics (atoms to data centers)”
  • Manoj M. Prabhakaran, Beckman fellow, computer science, “Theory and Practice of Secure Multi-party Computation”
  • Eleonora Stoppino, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, “Ugly Beasts, Talking Monkeys: Animals in Medieval and Renaissance Culture”
  • Annie Tremblay, Beckman fellow, French, “Segmenting Speech Into Words: What Eye Movements Can Tell Us About Foreign-Language Learning”
  • Yingxiao Wang, bioengineering, “A High-throughput Screening Approach for the Development of FRET Biosensor”
  • Alexander Yong, Beckman fellow, mathematics, “The Grassmanian”

    Leakey, Prabhakaran, Tremblay and Yong are funded through the Beckman Endowment, named for UI alumnus and benefactor Arnold O. Beckman, in recognition of outstanding young faculty members’ scholarly contributions.

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