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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994
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1996] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 463 service to the Office of the Board of Trustees and wished him well in his retirement. Mr. Wicklund was applauded by those present. NEW BUSINESS Mr. Lamont shared a special feature in The Chicago Sun Times concerning Mr. McKeever with the members of the Board of Trustees. All commended him for his many accomplishments and his remarkable record of public service. REGULAR AGENDA The board considered the following reports and recommendations from the president of the University. By consensus, the board agreed that one vote would be taken and considered the vote on each agenda item nos. 1 through 10 inclusive. The recommendations were individually discussed but acted upon at one time. (The record of board action appears at the end of each item.) Appointment of Associates to the Center For Advanced Study, Urbana (1) Each year the Center for Advanced Study awards appointments as Associates in the Center, providing one semester of released time for creative work. Associates are selected in an annual competition from the faculty of all departments and colleges. The appointments allow the faculty award winners to carry out self-initiated programs of scholarly research or professional activity. The chancellor at Urbana recommends, and I concur, that the following list of Associates selected for the 1996-97 academic year be approved. A brief description of their projects follows: WANG-PING CHEN, Department of Geology, "Imaging Lithospheric Structures Beneath the Himalaya." An experiment is planned to image deep-seated structures beneath the world's most prominent mountain range. The result is expected to illustrate how the Earth's lithosphere deforms when two continents collide. PAUL F. DIEHL, Department of Political Science, "International Rivalries." This project is an attempt to understand the origins, evolution, interrelationships, and termination of long-standing militarized competitions between states since 1816. DOROTHY M. FIGUEIRA, Department of Comparative Literature, "Myths of Identity." The proposed project focuses on the myth of the Aryan as it appears in the German and Indian reception of the Veda. It will examine the manner in which canonical Sanskrit sources are utilized by racial theorists and social reformers to mobilize, destabilize and reify social action. MARTHA U. GILLETTE, Department of Cell and Structural Biology, "The Neurobiology of Time: Regulators of the Brain's Circadian Clock." During her appointment, Professor Gillette will (1) undertake new investigations probing interactions between the brain's biological clock and brain sites controlling sleep; (2) write a scholarly article for specialists; and (3) write a book for non-specialists. Each project will be aimed at synthetic integration of our understanding of the multiple regulators of this complex biological system. The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus contain a 24-hour biological clock that plays a central role in adaptively timing our behaviors, by selectively integrating multiple signals relaying environmental and brain state, and then organizing and synchronizing activities from molecular to organismal.
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