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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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bana-Champaign has recommended the following appointments of associates in the Center for Advanced Study for the academic year 1982-83 and for the program of research and study as indicated in each case. Associates1 ALDRIDGE, A. OWEN, professor of French and comparative literature, for one semester, to make a comparative analysis of American, Latin American, and European literatures of the 17th and 18th centuries. BODNAR, PETER, professor of art, for one semester, to work in creative painting. BRUNER, EDWARD, professor of anthropology, for the academic year, to study the role of narrative in social change. CURLEY, DANIEL, professor of English, for the academic year, to write a novel. GAENG, PAUL, professor of French and head of the Department of French, for one semester, to prepare a monograph on the linguistic relationship between the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire in 300-600 A.D. JENNINGS, RONALD, associate professor of history and in the Center for Asian Studies, for one semester, to study the society, economy, and legal procedure in the Ottoman province of Trabzon during the period 1560-1640. KLEIN, GEORGE DEVRIES, professor of geology, for one semester, to conduct a comparative analysis of tectonics and sedimentation in the evolution of the earth's crust in ocean basins. KUCK, DAVID, professor of computer science, for the academic year, to continue development of software and methodology for high performance computer systems. MICHALSKI, R. S., associate professor of computer science, for the academic year, to conduct research on computer inference techniques and their applications in biological sciences. PORTON, GARY, associate professor of religious studies, for the academic year, to conduct a study of the image of the non-Jew, the convert and conversion as they appeared in rabbinic literature. REINER, IRVING, professor of mathematics, for the academic year, to continue his research on representation theory of finite groups. SHERWOOD, O. DAVID, associate professor of physiology in the School of Basic Medical Sciences, for one semester, to study the physiological effects of the polypeptide hormone relaxin during pregnancy in animals. SIMON, JULIAN, professor of economics and professor of marketing in business administration, half-time for the academic year, to write a book on population growth and economic growth theory. WHITT, GREGORY S., professor of genetics and development, for one semester, to study the evolution of related genes and their developmental expression. The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign also has recommended the appointment of the following four 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. Beckman Associates CASPER, JONATHAN D., professor of political science, for the academic year, to study elite and mass beliefs about political and civil rights. HESS, KARL, professor of electrical engineering and research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, for the academic year, to study electronic transport processes in new forms of semiconductors.

1 Associates are selected in annual competition from the academic staff of all departments and colleges to carry out self-initiated programs of scholarly research or professional activity. The center is able to contribute only a modest fraction of the salary funds necessary to replace associates in their regular duties: thus the appointment of associates is possible due to the cooperation of the departments with which they are affiliated.