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1961J

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Department of German FRANCIS J. NOCK, Associate Professor of German and Acting Chairman of the Department, second semester, full pay; to study and collate certain manuscripts and fragments of the medieval German poem Partivai leading to a monograph study of their relation ship. Department of History ARTHUR BESTOK, Professor of History, full year, one-half pay; to write a history of American constitutional development from the point of view of intellectual history as well as the history of constitutional law. Department of Mathematics ROBEBT G. BARTLE, Associate Professor of Mathematics, first semester, full pay; for research at the University of California, Berkeley, and to renew contact with research mathematicians there. U.JVID G. BOURGIN, Professor of Mathematics, second semester, one-half pay; to pursue research on fixed point theory and mappings and to complete a monograph on this subject. DONALD L. BVBKHOLDEB, Associate Professor of Mathematics, first semester, full pay; to devote full time to research in statistical decision theory. Department of Physiology WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, Associate Professor of Physiology, full year, one-half pay; for a study of mechanical properties of muscles obtained from European molluscan forms in an attempt to further elucidate molecuiar mechanisms underlying tonic contraction. Department of Political Science CHARLES M. KNEIER, Professor of Political Science, second semester, full pay; for a study of the legal and administrative problems which have developed in the field of federal-local relations in the period since 1930. Department of Psychology WESLEV C. BECKER, Associate Professor of Psychology, full year, one-half pay; to review the research literature on parent-child relationship and to undertake studies preliminary to a longitudinal study of parent-child relationships. ALICE K. JONIETZ, Associate Professor of Psychology and Clinical Counselor in the Student Counseling Service, full year, one-half pay; to complete a comparative study of achieving and nonachieving British and American students of superior ability and similar socio-economic background; the American study has been completed. Department of Spanish and Italian FFED P. ELLISON, Associate Professor of Spanish, second semester, full pay; for research and travel in Brazil concerned with an interpretation of social symbols in the dominant forms of the contemporary Brazilian novel, a cultural and aesthetic investigation. Department of Speech and Theatre MARTIN T. COBIN, Associate Professor of Speech, second semester, full pay; to study experimental methodologies and their application to research in the artistic function of language, particularly spoken language. LEE S. HTJLTJEN, Professor of Speech, first semester, without pay, and second semester, full pay; to investigate the validity for one or more languages of • a theory of phonetic patterns determined by information content. J WESLEY SWANSON, Professor of Speech and Theatre, full year, one-half pay; for preparation of a book on the theories of Edward Gordon Craig, a precursor of "the new movement in die theatre," with especial attention to their genesis. ^Partment of Zoology ^OBAKT M. SMITH, Professor of Zoology, second semester, full pay; to complete a monographic survey of the some 1,500 species and subspecies of Mexican amphibians and reptiles.