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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The chancellor at Urbana recommends and I concur that the following list of associates selected for the 1995-96 academic year be approved. A brief description of their projects follows: WILLIAM M. CALDER III, professor, Department of the Classics, "Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: His Life and Work, Vol. I (1848-1876)." The biography of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931), the greatest modern Hellenist. A three-volume analysis of the work of Wilamowitz-Moellendorff will be researched, written, and published, depicting the political and scholarly context of his life. GARRY E. CHICK, associate professor, Department of Leisure Studies, "Completion of Four Southwestern Men, a Manuscript by John M. Roberts (1916-1990)." In the early 1950's, anthropologist John M. Roberts collected data from four informants, a Zuni, a Navaho, a Mormon, and a Spanish-American, intending to produce a monograph detailing and comparing their respective cultural knowledge. As Roberts never completed the monograph, the purpose of this project is to complete the study by applying recent culture theory to his data. SHUN LIEN CHUANG, professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, "Modeling of Strained Quantum-Well and Quantum-Wire Lasers." An important theoretical model and computer programs including many-body effects on the optical gain of strained quantum-well and quantum-wire lasers will be developed. In addition, theoretical results will be compared with experimental data. EVERETT C. DADE, professor, Department of Mathematics, "Representations of Finite Groups." A study of the relations between the complex irreducible characters of a finite group G and those of the normalizers of increasing chains of p-subgroups of G. HELEN S. FARMER, professor, Department of Educational Psychology, "Women's Career Choices: Focus on Science, Math and Technology." The purpose of this longitudinal study is to identify factors related to persistence of women in a science related career. Quantitative and qualitative data from three time points will be interpreted and written up in a book-manuscript form. **PAUL M. GOLDBART, associate professor, Department of Physics, "Dynamical Properties of Randomly Crosslinked Macromolecular Networks." As Charles Goodyear discovered in 1839, when he first vulcanized rubber, a viscous liquid of macromolecules becomes solid when a sufficient number of permanent crosslinks is introduced at random. The aim of the present project is to develop a comprehensive microscopic statistical mechanical theory of the dynamical properties of vulcanized macromolecular matter, from lightly vulcanized liquids through to heavily vulcanized solids. DAVID E. GOLDBERG, professor, Department of General Engineering, "The Design of Innovating Machines." The project will complete groundbreaking work on defining a computational basis for innovative, creative systems. Although the work takes off from the researcher's previous studies of genetic algorithms, its implications go far beyond that somewhat narrow realm. ALMA GOTTLIEB, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, "The Culture of Infancy: A Case Study of the Beng of Cote d'lvoire." This project will enable the author to complete a draft of a book, The Culture of Infancy: A Case Study of the Beng of Cote d'lvoire. The work will emphasize the cultural context of infantrearing practices, making it possible to locate infants in relation to both local and global contexts, including religious, social, economic, political, and historical factors that all shape the daily lives and development of young children, and the decisions of their caretakers. EDWARD A. KOLODZIEJ, research professor, Department of Political Science, "The Global Society: The Pursuit of Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy." The proposal argues that the nation-state, price-driven global capitalist markets, and democratization are necessary but not sufficient to ensure the construction of a peaceful and prosperous world society for the twenty-first century.