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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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government policy makers on the structure of loan guarantees; and (2) to assess the aggregate liability of major agricultural loan guarantee programs. ALEXANDER F. VAKAKIS, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, "Analytical and Experimental Study of Nonlinear Mode Localization and Passive Motion Confinement in a Flexible Structure." The principal aim of the proposed research is the analytical and experimental investigation of spatial localization of motions in a system of two coupled flexible beams with stiffness nonlinearities. The localized nonlinear normal modes of the system will be asymptotically studied, and an experimental fixture with actively induced nonlinearities will be tested to verify experimentally nonlinear motion confinement of disturbances generated by external impulses. JAMES HYE SUK YOON, assistant professor of linguistics and East Asian languages and cultures, "Modularity and Morphosyntactic Interaction." This project investigates questions concerning modularity, manner of modular interaction, and constraints on modular interaction in language, and ultimately other cognitive systems, by investigating the interaction of morphology and syntax. I concur.

On motion of Dr. Bacon, these appointments were approved.

Appointments to the Institute for the Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Chicago

(2) The chancellor at Chicago, upon 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 to the Institute for the Humanities, for the program of research or study as indicated in each case,1 for the academic year 1994-95. Fellows are released from teaching and administrative duties, normally for one year, so they may devote full effort to their respective research. ERIC ARNESEN, associate professor of African-American studies and history, "The Color of Solidarity: Black Railroad Labor's Quest for Equality, 1870-1970." STEVEN FANNING, associate professor of history, "Worlds of Power: Concepts of Kingdom and Empire in the Roman World and in Early Medieval Europe." THOMAS N. HALL, assistant professor of English, "The Literary Witnesses to the Anglo-Saxon Missions in Scandinavia." DOUG ISCHAR, assistant professor of art and design, "American Love." PEGGY MCCRACKEN, assistant professor of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, "The Old French Romance of Adultery." MARIAN SPERBERG-MCQUEEN, associate professor of German, "What Rosina Learned at the Theater: Feminist Readings of Plays Staged in Breslau between 1661 and 1700."

VIRGINIA WRIGHT WEXMAN, professor of English, "Compromising Positions: Hol-

lywood Authorship and the Cultural Construction of the Artist." TERENCE WHALEN, assistant professor of English, "Southern Culture on the Skids: Literature, Production, and the War of Representation in Antebellum America." Funds have been included in the University's appropriation bill for the 1994-95 fiscal year. These appointments are subject to the availability of funds. The vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Bacon, these appointments were approved.

1 Faculty fellows are chosen competitively by the Institute's Executive Committee through the evaluation of research proposals.