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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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CHIEKO I. MULHERN, associate professor of Japanese language and literature in the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, for two semesters, to write a book entitled Japanese Cinderella and the Italian Madonna: Jesuit Dissemination of the Fairytale into Medieval Japan. PHILIP A. SANDBERO, professor of geology, for one semester, to carry out research on the use of immunological methods to identify the taxonomic source of limestone constituents. WILLIAM R. SCHOEDEL, professor of the Classics and of Religious Studies, for two semesters, to carry out studies on the pagan view of the Bible in the early Christian era. RALPH O. SIMMONS, professor of physics and head of the department, for two semesters, to carry out studies of quantum solids and liquids by pulsed neutron scattering. JAMES W. TRURAN, professor of astronomy, for one semester, to carry out theoretical studies in nuclear astrophysics and nova hydrodynamics.

Beckman Associates

The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign also has recommended the appointment of the following faculty members as Beckman Associates, named for the donor of a gift which permits additional recognition for outstanding younger associate candidates who have already made distinctive scholarly contributions. NACHUM DERSHOWITZ, associate professor of computer science, for two semesters, to carry out studies of equational reasoning and its applications to theoremproving and programming. CLIFFORD E. DYKSTRA, associate professor of chemistry, for two semesters, to carry out research on the structure and spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded clusters and models for hydrogen bonding in extended systems. JOHN R. SHAPLEY, professor of chemistry, for one semester, to carry out research on new approaches to metal surface chemistry. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r . M a d d e n , t h e s e a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e a p p r o v e d .

Honorary Degrees, Urbana-Champaign

(6) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons at Commencement Exercises at UrbanaChampaign on May 25, 1986: RICHARD C. ATKINSON, chancellor, University of California at San Diego — the degree of Doctor of Science. STANLEY L. ELKIN, author and Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Washington University, St. Louis — the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. FRANK H. T . RHODES, president and professor of geology and mineralogy, Cornell University — the degree of Doctor of Science. DONOSHENO YAN, professor and director, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics and vice president, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China — the degree of Doctor of Science. The chancellor concurs in the recommendations. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . M a d d e n , t h e s e d e g r e e s w e r e a u t h o r i z e d a s r e c o m mended.

Revision of Master of Business Administration Degree, Chicago

(7) The Chicago Senate has recommended a reduction in the requirements for the Master of Business Administration degree — from 96 quarter hours (24 courses) to 80 hours (20 courses).