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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Urbana has recommended the following appointments of Associates in the Center for Advanced Study for the academic year 1976-77 and for the program of research or study as indicated in each case. T h e Vice President for Academic Affairs concurs. I recommend approval. BOWBN, BARBARA C , Professor of French, for one semester, to continue work on a book analyzing the attitudes of sixteenth-century France toward the use of language. BURKHOLDER, DONALD L., Professor of Mathematics, for the academic year, to continue studies in probabilistic theory and its applications to classical areas of mathematics. COLES, MICHAEL G. H., Associate Professor of Psychology, for one semester, for research on the psychological significance of various aspects of physiological activity in human beings. CONRAD, H. EDWARD, Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Head of the Department, for the academic year, to study the structure of certain chemical compounds that provide anticoagulant and other important biological activities. Dow, JOHN D., Professor of Physics, for the academic year, to study the effects of radiation on solids and solid surfaces. GORECKI, JAN, Professor of Sociology and in the Russian and East European Studies Center, for one semester, to complete a book-length manuscript describing a new theory of criminal justice. JONAS, JIRI, Professor of Chemistry, for the academic year, for research on the dynamic behavior of fluids and disordered materials under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. PACHMUSS, TEMIRA A., Professor of Russian in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, for one semester, to study the significance and impact of Russian emigre writers on literature and culture. PERKINS, ANN L., Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Design, for the academic year, to complete a study and publication of the origins and styles of the collection of Greek vases in the Krannert Art Museum. ROSENTHAL, HASKELL P., Professor of Mathematics, for one semester, for research on the structure of Banach spaces. SCHOEDEL, WILLIAM R., Professor of Classics and of Religious Studies and Chairman of the Religious Studies Program, for one semester, to prepare a commentary on the letters of an early Christian scholar, Ignatius of Antioch. WHITTEN, NORMAN E., J R . , Professor of Anthropology and Director of Research in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, for one semester, to complete a study of practical and theoretical aspects of contemporary cultural adaptation. WOLFOWITZ, JACOB, Professor of Mathematics, for one semester, for research in the areas of mathematical statistics and information theory. ZONN, PAUL, Associate Professor of Music, for one semester, to study woodwind multiphonics and other extended techniques and to compose several works demonstrating the integration of these techniques with conventional musical expression. O n m o t i o n of M r . S u m m e r s , 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 .

Undergraduate Instructional Awards for Summer of 1976, Urbana

(5) It is proposed that the program of Undergraduate Instructional Awards — to encourage faculty interest in improvement in the quality of undergraduate instruct i o n — be continued at the Urbana-Champaign campus for the summer of 1976. The awards provide salary for two months (two-ninths of the academic year salary) plus incidental expenses as required. Twenty-one applications have been submitted this year. A campuswide com-