Leaves of absence are granted for purposes of intensive study or research that will increase the quality of the individual's future contribution to the University.
Hae-Won Kim, assistant professor of chemistry, to study the applications of electronic structure methodologies to amines with a main focus on simulation of molecular spectra.
Neil A. Mercando, assistant professor of biology, to complete ongoing investigations of symbiotic associations among marine invertebrates and to explore new collaborative research directions using molecular biological techniques and sensory physiology techniques as part of current research on
marine invertebrate behavioral ecology.
David R. DeWalle, professor of forest hydrology, to work collaboratively on the development of a new textbook on snow hydrology at the USDA Agricultural Research Service Hydrology Lab.
Herschel A. Elliott, professor of agricultural and biological engineering, to conduct collaborative research on phosphorus dynamics in waste-amended soils.
Audrey N. Maretzki, professor of food science and nutrition, to identify and evaluate sites in developing countries where rural women could successfully establish income-generating agro-enterprises to process and market culturally acceptable foods for nutritionally-vulnerable populations, and to identify food system and community food security programs funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in the U.S. and internationally at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Mich., and through the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome and selected African countries.
Christopher A. Mullin, professor of insect toxicology, to conduct collaborative research on the molecular mechanisms of action and inhibition of alpha beta class hydrolases in the Laboratory of Pesticide Biotechnology in the departments of entomology and environmental toxicology at the University of California, Davis.
Dennis J. Murphy, professor of agricultural engineering, to conduct collaborative research on the theory and principles for guiding effective occupational safety and health interventions for production agriculture at the Division of Safety Research, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
Gregory W. Roth, associate professor of agronomy, to conduct collaborative research on the use of dairy nutrition computer models to aid in the selection of corn hybrids used for silage.
Beth E. Van Horn, extension agent, county extension director, Centre County, to complete research and prepare the dissertation required for a Ph.D. degree in agricultural and extension education at Penn State.
Paul N. Walker, professor of agricultural engineering, to conduct collaborative research on innovative technologies to improve microbiological food safety of minimally processed fruits and vegetables at the plant science and technology research unit, Eastern Regional Research Center.
Mark D. Agee, associate professor of economics, to conduct collaborative research on the economics of household risk factors associated with child abuse and spousal violence, and the relationship between parental socioeconomic status and the physical and mental health of children.
Richard G. Caram, associate professor of theatre, to write a film script titled "The Hunting Club" and to collaboratively revisit that script at Necropolis Films in Boulder, Colo.
Michael R. Gannon, associate professor of biology, to develop a bat survey protocol that will be useful in assessing bat communities or the presence of rare and endangered species at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Commission and at Texas Tech University.
John E. Lennox, professor of microbiology, to develop collaboratively and disseminate a series of educational materials related to the biology of biofilms at the Center for Biofilms Engineering at Montana State University, Bozeman.
Hossein Movahedi-Lankarani, associate professor of mathematics, to continue work on the problem of characterizing those metric spaces which admit bi-Lipschitz embeddings into finite dimensional Euclidean spaces.
John E. Daniel, associate professor of music, to perform music recitals and give master classes at a variety of colleges and universities in the United States.
Kenneth R. Graves, professor of art, to produce a photographic project on male-dominated institutions with a concentration on rites, rituals and performance.
Timothy P. Johnson, associate professor of landscape architecture, to develop an interactive, media rich, computer-based student handbook for perspective drawing.
Barry M. Kur, associate professor of theatre, to conduct research on dialects of South Africa and their application to current plays of that nation, resulting in a new chapter of a book titled Stage Dialect Studies: A Continuation of the Lessac Approach to Actor Voice and Speech Training; to conduct a series of actor voice/speech training sessions for students at the University of Pretoria and Technikon, Pretoria, in the Republic of South Africa; and to expand work in professional actor coaching as a voice/speech specialist at various universities and professional repertory companies in the U.S.
D. Douglas Miller, professor of music, to write a book comprehensively dealing with the choral repertoires in Western art music, from medieval chant through avant garde works.
Katsuhiko Muramoto, associate professor of architecture, to conduct research into the impacts on the Japanese perception of space due to the introduction of western technology and western culture into Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1911) at Nihon University in Japan.
Kenneth R. Tamminga, associate professor of landscape architecture, to explore emerging interdisciplinary approaches to urban watershed planning and management.
W. Bruce Trinkley, professor of music, to take up residencies at various artist colonies to compose a music theatre work based on the Lewis and Clark expedition and a one-act comic opera, and to conduct research on the life of Scottish artist and writer David Lindsay in preparation of composing a dramatic cantata.
Robert A. Yarber, associate professor of art, to produce painting, video and photography for one-person exhibits at Sonnabend Gallery, New York, N.Y.; Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, and Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago.
John W. Bagby, professor of business law, to conduct research on e-commerce cyberlaw for instructional materials and to initiate related research projects.
Donald D. Bergh, associate professor of management, to study post-acquisition management systems of international acquisitions and how those systems affect what happens to the acquisition's outcome at the National University of Ireland.
Kalyan Chatterjee, distinguished professor of management and economics, to continue and expand an existing research program in multilateral bargaining, coalition formation and contracting at Churchill College and University College in London, New York University and the Indian Statistical Institute.
Thomas G. Bowers, associate professor of psychology, to conduct collaborative research on the patterns of cognitive performance associated with learning disorders and attention disorders.
Barbara A. Bremer, associate professor of psychology, to conduct collaborative research and build a model for quality-of-life changes over the trajectory of a terminal illness and to identify supportive aspects of patient care at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Hartmut Heep, associate professor of German and comparative literature, to conduct research on a book-length study on multi-culturalism in post-wall Germany.
Peter B. Idowu, associate professor of engineering, to develop a prototype electrical power and machinery laboratory that would be accessible through computer networks and the Internet.
Matthew T. Wilson, associate professor of humanities and writing, to write a critical study of the African American writer Charles W. Chestnutt, titled Whiteness in the Fiction of Charles W. Chestnutt.
James T. Ziegenfuss Jr., professor of management and health care systems, to extend research and writing on health care quality.
Mark A. Casteel, associate professor of psychology at Penn State York, to conduct research on how working memory differences among readers affect their understanding of text.
Gary L. Collison, professor of English at Penn State York, to conduct research for a comprehensive study of German-American folk and high-art grave markers and the artisans who created them.
Lawrence B. Golden, associate professor of physics at Penn State Worthington Scranton, to study techniques for improving student performance in Physics 202, "Electricity and Magnetism," and to develop methods to improve teaching this material at the Dickinson College, spring semester 2001.
K. Alita Kelly, associate professor of Spanish and French at Penn State Delaware County, to prepare collaboratively an anthology of recent Peruvian poetry in English translation.
John C. McWilliams, associate professor of history at Penn State DuBois, to write a history of corrections in Pennsylvania at the Department of Corrections in Camp Hill.
Cheryl J. Plumb, associate professor of English, to read extensively in three relatively unexplored areas in black American literature and women writers.
R. Alan Price, professor of English at Penn State Hazleton, to complete research and begin writing a book titled Literary Angels: American Authors Involved in Relief and Refugee Organizations in Belgium and France During the First World War (1914-18).
Adam J. Sorkin, professor of English at Penn State Delaware County, to translate contemporary Romanian literature, mainly poetry.
Pingjuan L. Werner, associate professor of engineering at Penn State DuBois, to conduct research in fractal electrodynamics to develop antenna theory and designs based on fractal geometries.
Molly M. Wertheimer, associate professor of speech communication and women's studies at Penn State Hazleton, to prepare a book-length manuscript on the rhetorical development and strategies of former First Lady Barbara Bush.
Ronald V. Bettig, associate professor of communications, to conduct research on the integration of East and West German copyright systems following the reunification.
Jeanne L. Hall, associate professor of communications, to conduct collaborative research on German documentary film.
Patrick R. Parsons, associate professor of telecommunications, to complete a book-length manuscript on the history of cable television.
Cynthia A. Brewer, associate professor of geography, to plan and produce the first atlas of Census 2000 data at the U. S. Bureau of the Census.
Andrew M. Carleton, professor of geography, to conduct collaborative research on the impacts of human activities on the contemporary climate of the U. S. Midwest "Corn Belt."
Robert G. Crane, professor of geography, to conduct collaborative research on neural net analysis of southern African rainfall and atmospheric circulation.
Deryck W. Holdsworth, professor of geography, to conduct research on the office district of London and Liverpool as a distinctive element of modern cities.
K. Osseo-Asare, professor of metallurgy and geo-environmental engineering, to conduct collaborative research on a unified approach to aqueous processing education and research.
Eunice N. Askov, professor of education and head of the Department of Adult Education, Instructional Systems, and Workforce Education and Development, to study applications of distance education to workforce development and adult literacy in Australia.
Barbara L. Grabowski, associate professor of education, to conduct research on instructional design theory, current and future Internet development tools and current practice of Internet training in business and industry.
Roger L. Geiger, professor of education, to conduct research and write a study of contemporary American universities and the market forces currently affecting their development.
Kenneth C. Gray, professor of education, to conduct an international investigation of formal and informal workforce development higher education systems at the National Taiwan Normal University and the Institut Teknologi Tun Hussein Omn.
Jeffrey A. Hayes, associate professor of education, to review and synthesize the literature on the concept of the wounded healer, especially as it pertains to psychotherapy and to interview healers from non-western cultures regarding the connection between woundedness and healing.
Octavia I. Camps, associate professor of electrical engineering, to conduct collaborative research in robust object recognition and tracking using computer vision.
Joseph P. Cusumano, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, to develop signal processing methods based on dynamical systems theory for tracking damage evolution in materials and machinery and to work on applications of similar methods in the medical and life sciences at the Naval Research Laboratory.
Andris Freivalds, professor of industrial engineering, to write a new textbook, Mechanics of Musculoskeletal Injuries of the Upper Extremities, for Industrial Engineering 552; and to revise the current textbook, Methods, Standards and Work Design, for Industrial Engineering 327.
Kenneth K. Kuo, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering, to develop collaborative research programs between Penn State and the Department of Navy, at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Md; and to participate in the faculty/staff exchange program between Penn State and the University of Orléans in France.
Gerald C. Lauchle, professor of acoustics, to conduct collaborative research on flow noise as it relates to undersea surveillance and Navy aviation and to develop new teaching tools and enhance existing courses in acoustics at the Naval Air Warfare Center.
Michael F. Modest, professor of mechanical engineering, to prepare the second edition of a graduate textbook, Radiative Heat Transfer.
Christopher S. Ruf, associate professor of electrical engineering, to conduct collaborative research on system design and engineering for a new hydrological remote sensing satellite sponsored by the European Space Agency.
Donald A. Streit, professor of mechanical engineering, to conduct collaborative research on energy systems and to identify how those systems can be used to meet the needs of developing countries at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.
Mario Sznaier, associate professor of electrical engineering, to conduct collaborative research in multi-objective control of nonlinear systems.
Stephen R. Turns, professor of mechanical engineering, to complete a textbook that integrates the thermal sciences which will complement curriculum reform in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, Colorado State University, Arizona State University and the University of Orléans in France.
Francis T. S. Yu, Evan Pugh professor of electrical engineering, to conduct collaborate research on information optics.
Hong Yuan Zha, associate professor of computer science and engineering, to develop theoretical foundation for latent semantic indexing, and to implement a proposed large-scale matrix computation algorithms and their applications to large and/or sparse matrices arising from real-world information retrieval and data mining applications.
Ashutosh V. Deshmukh, associate professor of accounting, to work with GE Transportation Systems on security and integrity of e-commerce transactions, integration of back-end accounting systems with front-end Web sites, and understanding of costs and benefits of enterprise resource planning.
Zachary T. Irwin, associate professor of political science, to teach a course at Charles University in Prague; to study the Czech language; and to complete work on a monograph concerning the foreign policies of Yugoslavia's successor states.
Ido Millet, associate professor of management information systems, to work with GE Transportation Systems and Erie Insurance on research interests in systems analysis, IT project management, reporting systems and applications development.
William E. Buckley, professor of kinesiology, to conduct research for a textbook on athletic training and to pursue continuing education as required to maintain the professional certification as a certified athletic trainer in the area of therapeutic manual therapy.
Monty L. Christiansen, associate professor of recreation and parks, to compile a uniform national standard for playground safety maintenance at the National Recreation and Parks Association and test centers of leading apparatus manufacturers.
Linda M. Collins, professor of human development and family studies and director of the Methodology Center, to write a book on latent class and latent transition models and to conduct collaborative research on a project to develop statistical models of tobacco use onset in high-risk youth.
Kathryn H. Dansky, associate professor of health policy and administration, to identify organizational and environmental characteristics of telehealth programs in the U.S. and to develop a theoretical framework to test a model of stakeholder influence on telehealth programs at the Pennsylvania Information Highway Consortium.
John W. Graham, professor of biobehavioral health, to conduct collaborative research on college alcohol-related harm reductions.
Elizabeth A. Hanley, associate professor of kinesiology, to conduct collaborative research and coauthor publications on the history and philosophy of Olympism and to develop a course on Olympism at Sheffield-Hallam University in England and the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Patricia B. Koch, associate professor of biobehavioral health, to conduct collaborative research in the area of sexual health with particular emphasis on HIV/AIDS and women's health.
Claudia K. Probart, associate professor of nutrition, to develop and conduct nutrition education programs worldwide by working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Dennis G. Shea, associate professor of health policy and administration, to explore several key policy issues in expanding treatment of mental illness for older adults.
Lynne Vernon-Feagans, professor of human development and family studies and associate dean for research, to write articles from a current grant and prepare a resubmission of that grant; to set up a large collaborative research program with colleagues at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Steven H. Zarit, professor of human development, to complete a book on parent-child relationships in later life; to conduct research on functional competency and change in very late life; and to conduct research on adult day care and dementia at the Institute of Gerontology, in Jönköping, Sweden.
Daniel C. Beaver, associate professor of history, to microfilm work and writing, leading to an article on the cultural history of English royal forests in the 17th century.
Robin G. Becker, associate professor of English and women's studies, to work on new poems and essays.
Stephen J. Beckerman, associate professor of anthropology, to conduct collaborative ethnographic research on primitive warfare with the Waorani of Ecuador, often characterized as the most warlike people on earth.
Thomas O. Beebee, associate professor of comparative literature and German, to conduct archival work in Germany and to prepare a book which traces the appearance of legal themes in post-1800 German literature.
D. Scott Bennett, associate professor of political science, to examine systematic regional and temporal variation in the empirical fit of rational choice models of international conflict.
Thomas D. Borkovec, distinguished professor of psychology, to write a book titled Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Kumkum Chatterjee, associate professor of history, to conduct research on the construction of history in India from the 18th century to the early 20th century.
Pamela M. Cole, professor of psychology, to prepare a book manuscript on culture and emotion in childhood.
Richard M. Doyle, associate professor of English, to conduct research and write a book on the late works of author Philip K. Dick.
James Eisenstein, professor of political science and program director of the Center for the Study of Science Policy, to conduct research on how federal criminal court communities (U.S. attorneys, investigative agents, probation officers, judges and defense counsel) differ in the outcomes for defendants.
Irwin Feller, professor of economics, director of The Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration, director of the Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation and acting director of the graduate program in policy analysis, to develop and assess a theoretical framework for analyzing the connections between discoveries (in the social sciences) and their use in service to society at the National Science Foundation.
Aníbal González-Pérez, Edwin Erle Sparks professor of Spanish, to begin writing a book, Amor es más laberinto: la vuelta al amor en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea (Love is the Greatest Labyrinth: The Return to Love in Contemporary Spanish American Narrative).
Barry W. Ickes, associate professor of economics, to conduct research on the evolution of Russia's virtual economy.
Dale L. Jacquette, professor of philosophy, to conduct research and write a philosophical monograph on ontology, which has been commissioned to contribute to the Central Problems of Philosophy Series, published by Acumen Books.
Phyllis K. Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education, to conduct collaborative research and prepare a monograph, tentatively titled The Tremin Trust: A Chronicle of Six Decades of Research on the Menstrual Cycle.
David McBride, professor of African and African American studies and African American history, to conduct a cross-national (inter-American) research project on the history of environmental hazards of African Americans, with a focus on lead poisoning in children.
Priscilla Meléndez, associate professor of Spanish, to write a 50-page chapter on the Spanish American play "Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1993)" by the Mexican dramatist, poet, novelist, script writer, and theatre and film director Sabina Berman (b. 1953).
Carla J. Mulford, associate professor of English, to complete a manuscript on Benjamin Franklin.
Iyunolu F. Osagie, associate professor of English, to work on a book, African Memories: Slavery and Its Rhetorical Present, which examines the cultural memory of the slave past in the U.S.
Terry J. Peavler, professor of Spanish and interim head of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, to complete research on an aspect of the fiction of Mexican author, Juan Rulfo -- the role of the family and familial relationships.
Aaron L. Pincus, associate professor of psychology, to conduct collaborative research and complete the book, Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB): A Method for the Scientific Study of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, which is under contract with American Psychological Association Books.
Bee-yan Roberts, associate professor of economics, to continue a large project analyzing the roles of international technology transfer and the turnover of firms and jobs in the economic performance of the manufacturing sectors in Taiwan, South Korea and Indonesia at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
William R. Schmalstieg, Edwin Erle Sparks professor of Slavic languages and linguistics and Fellow in the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, to complete work on a review of the literature since 1976 about the Old Prussian language.
Marie Secor, associate professor of English, to pursue a pedagogical project that will result in a contribution to the scholarship of teaching.
Susan M. Squier, Brill professor of women's studies and English, to conduct research on fiction, popular science writing and medical narratives to document how "liminal lives" -- creatures that border the human taxonomically or developmentally, such as animals, human embryos and fetuses, and the near or newly-dead -- are currently being used to reconfigure the human life span, or replot human existence, both materially and in representation.
John J. Stuhr, professor of philosophy and head of the Department of Philosophy, to complete research and write a major book, Pragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy.
Stephen M. Wheeler, associate professor of classics, to conduct research and write a book about the influence of Ovid's poetry on Roman literature in antiquity at the Free University in Berlin.
James B. Anderson, Evan Pugh professor of chemistry, to conduct research in quantum chemistry by Monte Carlo methods.
Piotr Berman, associate professor of computer science and engineering, to investigate combinatorial optimization, problems, especially approximation algorithms with applications in job scheduling and computational biology.
Jean-Luc Brylinski, Eberly family professor of mathematics, to conduct research on differential geometry of Gerbes and its applications.
Ranee Brylinski, professor of mathematics, to conduct research on quantization of nilpotent orbits (including geometric construction of unitary representations and star products.
Charles R. Fisher, professor of biology and assistant head of the Department for Graduate Education, to write three unrelated primary research papers and one piece for the general public.
S. Blair Hedges, associate professor of biology, to develop new methodology for the evolutionary analysis of gene sequence data.
Diane M. Henderson, associate professor of mathematics, to conduct collaborative research on theoretical and numerical aspects of various problems in wave mechanics and fluid mechanics.
Thomas P. Hettmansperger, professor of statistics, to conduct collaborative research on the development of new robust statistical methods with applications in multivariate biostatistics.
Donald G. James, professor of mathematics, to conduct collaborative research on integral representation of quadratic forms and applications to arithmetic Kleinian groups and to geometry.
Victor Nistor, professor of mathematics, to conduct research on applications of the methods of noncummutative geometry to other areas of mathematics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Germany.
Adrian Ocneanu, professor of mathematics, to conduct research on the mathematical foundations of symmetry in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and to integrate the results with currently unpublished research results into a book supported and published by the Clay Mathematical Institute.
Nitin Samarth, associate professor of physics, to investigate optical and electrical control of coherent spin phenomena in semiconductor quantum structures.
Gregory Swiatek, professor of mathematics, to conduct research in one-dimensional dynamics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Steven M. Weinreb, Marker professor of chemistry, to conduct collaborative research to expand
research program into new areas of organic synthesis as well as into molecular recognition and bioorganic/medicinal chemistry.
Xumu Zhang, associate professor of chemistry, to conduct collaborative study on combinatorial research and parallel synthesis techniques.
Gregory A. Crawford, associate librarian and head of public services, Penn State Harrisburg, to produce an annotated and indexed bibliography of Nabataean and Petran studies in book form for use as a reference resource.
Binh P. Le, associate librarian and reference librarian, Penn State Abington, to complete a bibliography for publication including scholarly and documentary materials in English and Vietnamese on the social, political and economic transformations in Vietnam since 1986, commonly known as Doi Moi.
Timothy L. Wherry, associate librarian and head librarian, Penn State Altoona, to conduct research on intellectual property policy, technical solutions and specific guidelines for interpretation of fair use of electronic media.