Trustees appoint seven to Center for Advanced Study

Seven faculty members were appointed fellows in the Center for Advanced
Study for the academic year 1995-96 by the UI Board of Trustees at its
meeting April 13 in Chicago.

The appointments provide untenured faculty members one semester of release
time for creative work on self-initiated programs of scholarly research or
professional activity. The fellows are chosen in an annual competition by
Center for Advanced Study professors.

Two of the appointees have been designated Beckman Fellows. Named for UI
alumnus and benefactor Arnold O. Beckman, the appointments recognize
outstanding younger candidates who have made distinctive scholarly
contributions.

Faculty members named Beckman Fellows, and the research area they intend to
pursue:

  * Martin Gruebele, chemistry, novel effects in vibrational energy
    redistribution.
  * Sergei V. Ivanov, mathematics, free Burnside groups of exponents.

Faculty members named fellows, and the research area they intend to pursue:

  * Geoffrey C. Bowker, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
    the role of organizational memory in the production of knowledge.
  * Nan Goggin, School of Art and Design, creation of a multimedia artwork
    which will construct a narrative on the topic of manual labor.
  * David J. Miller, animal sciences, signaling through sperm receptors for
    eggs during mammalian fertilization.
  * Joseph Squier, School of Art and Design, creation of an Internet-based
    virtual artwork exploring the relationship between body and identity.
  * Aaron E. Wright, Germanic languages and literatures, Latin commentary and
    the German fable, 1350-1500.