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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988
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1988] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 513 Beckman Fellows NIGEL GOLDENFELX), assistant professor of physics, to complete a book, The Physics of Pattern Formation, and carry out research in theoretical physics, including randomly cross-linked macromolecules and high temperature superconductivity. JONATHAN WIDOM, assistant professor of chemistry, to conduct research on the structure and function of chromosomes and related protein: DNA complexes. T h e acting vice president for academic affairs concurs. 1 recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r s . G r a v e n h o r s t , these a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e a p p r o v e d . Amoco Foundation Awards for Undergraduate Instruction, Urbana (12) T h e undergraduate instructional awards program provides salaries and other support to a limited number of faculty members who spend the summer months developing new undergraduate courses or improving existing undergraduate courses. T h e results of those summer efforts are then introduced to the classroom during the following fill semester, and those receiving the awards submit reports on their summer's work and the results of that work in the classroom. A campus review committee evaluates the reports to determine which projects made the greatest contribution to the improvement of undergraduate education on the campus. Two persons who are judged to have done the best work each receive a $1,500 Amoco Foundation Award for Undergraduate Instruction. The committee's selections for this year are as follows: STEPHEN P. COHEN, professor of political science—-"Illism: A Security Simulation for Undergraduates" GILL-CHIN LIM, professor of urban and regional planning —- "Development of Interdisciplinary Course in Planning Using Task-Performance Oriented Teaching Method ( T O T M ) " T h e chancellor at Urbana-Champaign and the acting vice president for academic affairs have recommended that awards of $1,500 be made to each of the faculty members noted above. I concur. On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, these recommendations were approved. Establishment of New Field of Concentration (Statistics and Computer Science, Sciences and Letters Curriculum), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana (13) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended the establishment of a new field of concentration in statistics and computer science within the Sciences and Letters Curriculum, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, effective fall, 1988. T h e proposed program is designed t o prepare students in statistics, computer science, and the interface between the two disciplines. It would be geared toward students who wish to apply computational theory and methods to statistics and statistical ideas to computer science. T h e new field of concentration would require sixty hours of core courses in mathematics, computer science, and statistics, and at most forty-four hours of course work to fulfill the rhetoric, foreign language, and general education requirements in the Sciences and Letters Curriculum. Sixteen hours of course work would be devoted to free electives. The concentration would require a minimum of 120 hours for graduation. Primary responsibility for the program will be within the Department of Statistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. N o new staffing or budgetary
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