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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

[March 19

and motives underlying the political stance of writers in the 1930s with emphasis on British and French authors. LLOYD E. EASTMAN, professor of history, for the academic year, to examine the causes of the deterioration and collapse of the Chinese Nationalist government, 1937-1949. THOMAS G. EBREY, professor of biophysics, for one semester, to conduct laboratory experiments on the relationship of light energy transduction to vision. BOB I. EISENSTEIN, professor of physics, for the academic year, to study the properties of new particles produced in colliding beam reactions. PHILIP? FEHL, professor of art, for one semester, to study tomb sculpture in St. Peter's, Rome, as it relates to funerary practice and mourning. MAURICE FRIEDBERG, professor of Russian literature and head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, for one semester, to produce a book-length manuscript on the theory and practice of literary translation in Russia from its beginnings in the 18th century to the present. PHILLIP A. GRIFFITH, professor of mathematics, for the academic year, to continue research on central problems in algebraic theory. ROGER E. KANET, professor of political science, for the academic year, to examine the character of the emerging relationships between sub-Saharan Africa and the Soviet Union and its allies. JOHN W. LOY, J R . , professor of physical education, for two semesters, to make a comparative analysis of character, social structure, and expressive culture among warrior aristocracies. DOUGLAS L. MEDIN, associate professor of psychology, for the academic year, to study the relationship between cognitive processes and medical diagnosis and disease classification. ALBERTO PORQUERAS-MAYO, professor of Spanish, for one semester, to complete a critical study of Luis Alfonso de Caravallo's Swan of Apolo, an important seventeenth-century text on poetic theory. DEREK J. ROBINSON, professor of mathematics, for the academic year, to examine the mathematical relation between the structure of various infinite groups. SONYA B. SALAMON, associate professor of family relationships and acting head of the Department of Human Development and Family Ecology, for six months, to prepare a monograph on familial and ethnic factors in farming among prairie farmers. PAUL W. SCHROEDER, professor of history, for one semester, to continue research for a history of European international relations from 1789-1848. DANIEL L. SLOTNICK, professor of computer science, for the academic year, to begin the development of a computer system capable of designing other systems to solve specific problems. GAISI TAKEUTI, professor of mathematics, for the academic year, to continue research on mathematical logic and its application to mathematics. EDWARD W. VOSS, J R . , professor of microbiology, for one semester, to analyze the structural and genetic basis of high affinity in antibodies, an important problem in immunology. RICHARD P. WHEELER, associate professor of English, for one semester, to complete a book manuscript about the development of English Renaissance drama, and of Shakespeare's drama in particular, begun by the late C. L. Barber, the preeminent Shakespeare critic of the twentieth century. The chancellor at Urbana has also recommended the appointment of the following two 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. 1

1 As part of the "Campaign for Illinois," Mr. Arnold Beckman, chairman of the board of Beckman Instruments, Inc., and Mrs. Beckman provided a challenge gift of $5 million for the Graduate Research Board to be matched with subsequent gifts from other donors.