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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 9

Appointment of Fellows in the Center for Advanced Study, Urbana

(3) Each year the Center for Advanced Study awards faculty members appointments as fellows in the Center, providing released time for creative work. Fellows are chosen by a selection committee in an annual competition among the faculty of all departments and colleges to carry out self-initiated programs of scholarly research or professional activity. With the approval of their departments and colleges, fellows are freed from part or all of their teaching duties. Appointments are granted for one semester. Fellows will continue to receive their regular salaries from their departments while on appointment. The center is able to contribute only a modest fraction of the salary funds necessary to replace fellows in their regular duties; thus the appointment of fellows is possible due to the cooperation of the departments with which they are affiliated. The center makes a grant to the individual unit which is intended to provide partial compensation for replacement of the fellows in the classroom. The following is a listing of the fellows selected for the 1992-93 academic year, and a brief description of their projects: GUL AGHA, assistant professor of computer science, to develop a methodology for specifying and building large-scale systems and to further develop the programming language constructs necessary to provide abstract specifications. DOUGLAS H. BECK,1 assistant professor of physics, to measure the weak interaction analog of the magnetic moment of the proton in order to further understand the structure of the proton at the level of the quarks. MAARTEN J. BERGVELT, assistant professor of mathematics, to explain the connection between generalizations of the Toda-lattice and the geometry of finite and infinite dimensional Grassmannians, and to explore the relation between the Hamiltonian structure of integrable systems and so-called W-algebras that have recently appeared in the context of string theory. THOMAS JACOBS, assistant professor of plant biology, to provide a detailed characterization of the autophosphorylation phenomenon in order to assess its relation to the signaling pathway in the plant so that the MsERKl activator can be identified. BRIGIT KELLY, assistant professor of English, to complete a second volume of poems, The Yard of the Actual Inside the Yard of the Dream. KEVIN F. MILLER, assistant professor of psychology, to examine the effects of numbernaming systems and orthographies (systems for writing numbers) on early mathematical abilities, and the effects of the Chinese noun classifier system on the development in children of an understanding of quantitative transformations. The chancellor at Urbana, upon the recommendation of the director of the Center for Advanced Study, recommends approval. I concur.

On motion of Dr. Bacon, these appointments were approved. Appointments to the Institute for the Humanities, Chicago

(4) The chancellor at Chicago, on recommendation of the director of the Institute for the Humanities and with the concurrence of the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has recommended the following appointments of fellows in the Institute for the Humanities for the academic year 1992-93 and for the program of research or study as indicated in each case.2 Fellows are released from teaching and

1 This faculty member has been recommended for appointment as a Beckman Fellow in the Center for Advanced Study named for the donor of a gift which permits additional recognition for outstanding younger fellow candidates who have already made distinctive scholarly contributions. 2 Faculty fellows are chosen competitively by the institute's Executive Committee through evaluation of research proposals.