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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 16

while on appointment. T h e center is able to contribute only a modest fraction of the salary funds necessary to replace associates in their regular duties; thus the appointment of associates is possible due to the cooperation of the departments with which they are affiliated. T h e center makes a grant to the individual unit which is intended to provide partial compensation for replacement of the associate in the classroom. T h e following is a listing of the associates selected for the 1992-93 academic year, and a brief description of their projects: RICHARD W. BURKHARDT, J R . , professor of history and campus honors, to explore how ethology, the biological study of behavior, emerged as a major new scientific discipline in the first two decades after the Second World War. J O H N W. GRAY, professor of mathematics and of computer science, to discuss the semantics of programming languages by exploring the theory of 2-categories. SALVATORE MARTIRANO, professor of music, to complete Isabella, a concerto for large extended orchestra. CAROL NEELY, professor of English and of women's studies, to finish a draft of a book, Did Madness Have a Renaissance? Gender and Mental Disorder in Early Modern England, 1580-1640. MANGALORE A. P A I , professor of electrical and computer engineering, to look at energy functions for transient stability, voltage collapse and low frequency oscillation studies and to look at parallel processing via a numerical analysis point of view. RAJESHWARI V. PANDHARIPANDE, associate professor in the Program for the Study of Religion, and of linguistics, to discover the theological, social, and linguistic bases of the "transplanted" Hinduism and to determine the religious identity of the immigrant Hindus in the U.S. JANAK H. PATEL, professor of electrical and computer engineering and of computer science, and research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, to test related problems of Multi-Chip Modules (MCM's) and to collect data on the nature of failures in them. GARY PORTON, professor in the Program for the Study of Religion, and professor of comparative literature, and of history, to delineate the nature of "feminine" as a cultural concept with the potential of revising the picture of the Jewish deity and the theological structures of Judaism. DEREK J. S. ROBINSON, professor of mathematics, to carry out a detailed study of the semisimplicity of crossed products for the contribution to a solution of the problem and to increase understanding of the nature of semisimplicity. PAUL W. SCHROEDER, professor of history, to undertake a wide interpretative survey of three centuries of international politics from the Peace of Westphalia to the end of World War II (1648-1945), emphasizing the evolution of the international system rather than the constant struggle for power. IVAN S. SCHULMAN, professor of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, of comparative literature, and of Spanish, to examine anti-slavery narratives in the cultural and social dimensions of nineteenth-century Cuba, and to write a book, Spurious Discoveries: The Cuban Anti-Slavery Narrative (1838-1885), based on the findings.

Beckman Associates

These faculty members have been recommended for appointment as Beckman Associates in the Center for Advanced Study, named for the donor of a gift which permits additional recognition for outstanding younger Associate candidates who have already made distinctive scholarly contributions. S C O T T A. BURNS, associate professor of general engineering and of civil engineering, to clearly identify the classes of problems that are solved most effectively by the monomial method. WALTER G. KLEMPERER, professor of chemistry, to complete a book entitled A New