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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 18

**GREGORY S. GIROLAMI, Department of Chemistry, "Synthesis of New Molecular Magnets." Professor Girolami has been developing a new approach to the manufacture of magnets, one that involves the use of molecular species as "building blocks." His approach, which involves the controlled assembly of molecular starting materials into three-dimensional arrays, has the advantage that the magnets can be prepared at room temperature rather than the high temperatures characteristic of metallurgical and ceramic processing methods. PHILIP GRAHAM, Department of English, "City of Ghosts, a Novel." This novel, set entirely in the afterlife, centers on the ghostly inhabitants of a small American city. These inhabitants, whose lives spread over the centuries of American history, have an eternity to confront their personal fates, as well as the promise and divisions of our nation's multicultural heritages. **LAURA H. GREENE, Department of Physics, "Charge Transport Across the Superconductor-Semiconductor and Superconductor-Metal Interface." Professor Greene will initiate a coordinated cross-disciplinary experimental and theoretical study of the static and dynamic properties of hybrid superconductor-semiconductor and superconductor-normal metal structures. The primary objectives are to investigate the phenomenology and basic physics of charge transport in hybrid superconductor devices and to assess the advantages of implementing superconductor elements into advanced electronic device technologies. HERBERT KELLMAN, School of Music, "Josquin des Prez: A Documentary Biography." Professor Kellman will write a book-length biography of Josquin des Prez (c. 1440-1521), the most important and influential composer of the Renaissance, whose long career was spent in France and Italy, where he was attached to the musical establishments of ducal and royal houses, the papacy, and major churches. This will be the first study of its kind, having as its central axis the chronological presentation of all extant documents pertaining to the composer's life and service (many previously unpublished), linked by a narrative commentary, both explicatory and interpretive. DIANE P. KOENKER, Department of History, "Printers and Society in the Soviet Union 1917-1930." The project explores the transformation under socialism of Russian working-class culture and consciousness. Using printed and archival records from trade union, factory, and party organizations, the study examines processes through which urban skilled workers sought accommodation with the Soviet regime, moments of resistance, and efforts to create new cultures at work and at leisure. JOSEPH W. LYDING, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, "Nanofabrication of Metallic Nanostructures by UHV-STM." The ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope (UHV-STM) will be used in concert with chemical vapor deposition to create metallic nanostructures on the sub-100 A size scale. These structures will form the basis for nanoscale electronic devices based on quantum effects yet capable of operating at room temperatures. JEAN-PHILIPPE MATHY, Department of French, "The Resistance to French Theory'; Intellectual Cultures and the Continental Divide." Professor Mathy will write an intellectual and cultural history of the reception of structuralism and poststructuralism ("French theory") in the English-speaking world (in academia, the media and the educated public). VIJAY R. PANDHARIPANDE, Department of Physics, "Studies of Short-range Structures in Nuclei." Professor Pandharipande proposes to study theoretically the shortrange structures in nuclei using nuclear many-body theory as well as quark models inspired by quantum chromodynamics. Theoretical analysis of experiments that can yield further information on these structures will also be carried out. (**These faculty members have been recommended for appointment as Beckman Associates in the Center for Advanced Study. These are named for Arnold O.