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in an annual competition from the faculty of all departments and colleges to carry out self-initiated programs of scholarly research or professional activity. The chancellor at Urbana recommends the following list of Fellows selected for the 1995-96 academic year, and offers a brief description of their projects: GEOFFREY C. BOWKER, assistant professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The Role of Organizational Memory in the Production of Knowledge. This project poses the question of how informal and formal mechanisms for storing organizational memory are important in the production of scientific and medical knowledge, and examines the significance of an articulation between these different forms of memory. It combines approaches in the fields of history, sociology of science, organizational theory and information science. N A N GOGGIN, assistant professor, School of Art and Design, Labor [labour]. Labor [labour] will be a multimedia artwork combining a CD-ROM disk and a printed book, embodying traditional and contemporary information technologies to be used together in the construction of a narrative on the topic of manual labor. The texts and visuals will examine how labor is defined in relation to women as our culture continues to render hard-labor obsolete. **MARTIN GRUEBELE, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, Novel Effects in Vibrational Energy Redistribution: Theory and Experiment. A new model for energy redistribution in molecules predicts unusual behavior, which may be used to generically control molecular reactivity. Femtosecond laser experiments will test the predictions of this model on specific systems, and could allow selective chemical control if the predictions are borne out. ** SERGEI V. IVANOV, assistant professor, Department of Mathematics, Free Burnside Groups. The purpose of the project is to further develop the methods that were created recently by the proposer to solve the long-standing Burnside problem on the finiteness of finitely generated groups that satisfy the law x n = 1 for sufficiently large even n exponents. In particular, it is planned to obtain a complete description of all finite and locally finite subgroups of the free-Burnside groups of sufficiently large exponents. DAVID J. MILLER, assistant professor, Department of Animal Sciences, Signaling Through Sperm Receptors for Eggs During Mammalian Fertilization. These studies will make it possible to understand more clearly how an egg coat glycoprotein binds to a receptor on sperm and activates intracellular signaling processes. Signaling steps will be identified that lead to the release of the sperm acrosome, a requirement for successful fertilization. JOSEPH SQUIER, assistant professor, Department of Art and Design, Art on the Internet: Appearance and Apparition. Appearance and Apparition will be an internet-based virtual artwork combining still images, video, sound, and text. It will explore the relationship between body and identity, themes particularly resonant as our culture enters the inherently dimensionless realm of cyberspace. AARON E. WRIGHT, assistant professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Latin Commentary and the German Fable 1350-1500. A monographicstudy of the manuscript commentaries is proposed on two medieval Latin fable compilations and their influence on six German fable collections of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Such a study promises to cast new light on both the pedagogic use of the Latin fable and the development in the later Middle Ages of a bookish vernacular fable distinct from its Latin models. (**These faculty members have been recommended for appointment as Beckman Fellows 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.) I concur.

On motion of Ms. Lopez, these appointments were approved.