Leaves of Absence 2002-2003
Penn State Intercom......February 7, 2002

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. The following leaves have been approved for 2002-03:

Penn State Abington

Andrew G. August, associate professor of chemistry, to complete a book manuscript, The British Working Class, 1840-1940, an interpretive survey of the social history of British workers in this period.

Ayoub B. Ayoub, professor of mathematics, to complete a research project for a source book in mathematics and to complete a book manuscript, Selected Topics for the Mathematics Teacher.

Kenneth W. Johnson, professor of mathematics, to complete a book manuscript, Arithmetic and Invariant Theoretic Aspects of Group Representation Theory, co-authored with a Russian mathematician.

Martha Lee Kemper, associate professor of theatre and integrative arts, to develop further and present the performance and accompanying lecture/workshop on the work of Eudora Welty and to develop and publish a written guide that will accompany the performance and workshop.

Linda Patterson Miller, professor of English, to complete a book manuscript on Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time, which is to be published by Kent State University Press in 2004 as one of seven volumes in its Reading Hemingway Series.

David E. Ruth, associate professor of history, to complete a draft of a book manuscript on the cultural history of capital punishment in modern America.

College of Agricultural Sciences

C. John Esslinger, extension agent, Lackawanna County, to complete a master of science degree in agriculture in the Department of Horticulture.

James L. Frazier, professor of entomology, to conduct collaborative research on new approaches for the study of chemosensory cell functioning in pest insects using Drosophila mutants and cell lines at the University of London.

E. Jay Holcomb, professor of floriculture, to develop collaboratively a new course offering for interior plant design and maintenance at Cornell University.

David R. Huff, associate professor of turfgrass genetics, to conduct collaborative research in genomic analysis and biotechnology at La Trobe University in Melbourne and The University of Melbourne.

Jay R. Stauffer Jr., professor of ichthyology, to complete the revisions to a key fish genus and describe between 20 and 25 new species of fish from Lake Malawi in Africa.

C. Shannon Stokes, professor of rural sociology, to conduct collaborative research on the impact of HIV/AIDS on food security at the Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome.

Donald B. Thompson, professor of food science, to study how the relationship between food and health differs according to one's cultural perspective.

Penn State Altoona

Douglas K. Brown, associate professor of mathematics, to conduct collaborative research in the area of reverse mathematics, which is a subspecialty of mathematical logic.

Mary G. De Jong, associate professor of English and women's studies, to complete a book manuscript that explores the roles of hymns, hymnbook-making and hymn-singing in 19th century America.

Daniel DiLeo, associate professor of political science, to study the political rhetoric of the agenda-setting speeches of Pennsylvania governors over the past 50 years, with a particular focus on the role of state government as a supporter of families and guardian of children.

Ian Marshall, professor of English, to undertake a project involving creative, critical and pedagogical dimensions of haiku poetry based on place.

Michael W. Wolfe, professor of history, to complete a book manuscript, On the Urban Edge: Military Fortifications and City Life in Early Modern France, that will examine the wide-ranging effects of the militarized periphery on the urban community found within the walls.

College of Arts and Architecture

Susan D. Boardman, associate professor of music, to undertake a project devoted to the location, study and analysis of art song settings of folk tunes by British composers Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams; to prepare and deliver a lecture-recital of these settings; and to write a major article on the subject at the British Library, The Royal Academy of Music, The Royal College of Music and the Britten-Pears Library.

Charles Dumas, associate professor of theatre, to write a textbook on African-American drama from the social perspective of the New York and vicinity theater scene at the Shomburg Center for African-American Culture and the New York City Public Library; and to conduct research that explores the influence of the South African heritage in African-American theatre, pending approval of a Fulbright award, at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

Dennis R. Glocke, associate professor of music, to transcribe the first four movements of Mlada Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov for wind ensemble and to take computer courses relating to music notation to finalize a legible score and parts for publication.

Jawaid Haider, professor of architecture, to review existing curriculum, conduct a design studio, and assist in the training of department faculty at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan.

Neil P. Korostoff, associate professor of landscape architecture, to conduct research on the health benefits of landscape architectural design in the health-care delivery system.

Gerald Lang, professor of art, to complete The Constructed Image: Photographs Created with the Digital Camera and Computer, a collection of new photographs exploring the discreet and often overlooked characteristics of a rural environment.

Cary L. Libkin, professor of theatre, to conduct research on the British musical theatre performance training; to form partnerships with American professional theatre producers; and to extend his professional directing experience in London.

Darla V. Lindberg, associate professor of architecture, to conduct research on interdisciplinary models to explore real-world opportunities in the arts and humanistic studies at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and Stanford University.

A. Richard Nichols, professor of theatre, to compile and edit an anthology of contemporary Korean dramas in English translations, with an introductory exegesis of contemporary Korean dramatic literature in Korea.

Jeanne Chenault Porter, associate professor of art history, to write a book manuscript, The Triumph of Baroque Painting in 17th Century Naples.

Elizabeth F. Quackenbush, associate professor of art, to conduct research on regional and historical ceramics in England; to create a new body of ceramic art works for exhibit at Mariko Arts in Denver; and to write an article that conceptualizes her clay construction and glazing processes for Studio Potter, a publication that features the work of preeminent American ceramists.

Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley

Candace Spigelman, associate professor of English, to develop a book manuscript, Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse, which seeks to demonstrate the persuasive and legitimate force of personal writing and its suitability for academic arguments.

Smeal College
of Business Administration

Anataram Balakrishnam, The Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal chaired professor of management science and information systems, to conduct collaborative research on modeling-oriented research that supports managerial planning and decision-making for the design and operation of information technology-enabled product and service fulfillment systems at the University of Maryland.

Duncan K.H. Fong, professor of management science and statistics, to conduct collaborative research on inventory theory, statistical model selection, and Bayesian approaches to conjoint analysis at Duke University and Georgetown University.

Dennis A. Gioia, professor of organizational behavior, to conduct individual and collaborative research on several theoretical and empirical projects on organizational identity and image of reputation at Bocconi University and the University of Modena.

Susan H. Xu, professor of management science, to conduct collaborative research on dependence analysis of multivariate stochastic systems and their applications in diverse areas at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Duke University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Washington State University.

Penn State Harrisburg

Alex Aswad, professor of engineering, to develop rational procedures for predicting the long-term camber (upward deflection) of long-span prestressed concrete beams at High Concrete Structures Inc., Denver, PA; Schuylkill Products Inc., Cressona, PA; and The Shockey Precast Group, Winchester, VA.

Daniele D. Flannery, associate professor of education, to gather data and write chapters of the book, Practitioners Speak: The Contributions of Adult Education to Professions and Work Settings, which proposes to address the prevailing lack of information and understanding of the contributions of the field of adult education to the various professions and work contexts in which adult educators practice.

Margaret Rose Jaster, associate professor of humanities and literature, to write a historical and interpretive study, tentatively titled Fashioninge the Minde and Conditions: Clothes and Conduct in Early Modern England, of 16th-century English documents which attempt to regulate behavior through the use of clothing mandates at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Patricia E. Johnson, associate professor of humanities and literature, to work on four articles, two of which address the issue of paid work for women in the late Victorian period and the ways in which it is treated in literature, and two on works by British working-class female writers, Pat Barker and Ethel Carnie.

Linda M. Null, assistant professor of engineering, to conduct research and continue work on a coauthored textbook, The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture.

George P. Partridge Jr., associate professor of environmental engineering, to develop a human receptor respiratory exposure dose model for the air toxics associated with fine particulates.

Clifford H. Wagner, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, to develop a software package, tentatively titled "Sampler," for instructional use in statistics.

Colleen Willard-Holt, associate professor of education, to train classroom teachers in constructivist strategies and to implement an educational reform in an area elementary school.

Gayle J. Yaverbaum, professor of information systems, to continue with commitment to integrate technology into learning environments and to study its impact on that environment.

Commonwealth College

Asad Azemi, associate professor of engineering, Delaware County, to collaboratively conduct analytical/simulation work in the area of genomics at Ferdowsi University.

Eric D. Cohen, associate professor of sociology, Fayette, to conduct research and write a manuscript on rural poverty in general, and Fayette County in particular, titled Under a Black Cloud: The Legacy of Deindustrialization on a Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania Community.

Mary K.M. Gergen, professor of psychology and women's studies, Delaware County, to complete a manuscript that deals with issues of security from a social psychological perspective.

Anatoli F. Ivanov, professor of mathematics, Wilkes-Barre, to conduct collaborative research on several aspects of theoretical studies in functional differential equations as well as with some applications of the theory to natural sciences at the Institute of mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences in Kiev, La Trobe University, the University of Ballarat and the University of Vigo.

Ali Kara, associate professor of business administration, York, to undertake an empirical study on cross-cultural consumer evaluations of associational comparative advertisements in different countries of Asia, the Middle East and Scandinavia.

William B. McCarthy, professor of English, DuBois, to document a rich, regional tradition of vernacular drama connected with the celebration of Easter in western Pennsylvania; and to carry out organization and preparation for an international conference on folk and vernacular drama, to be held in the spring of 2004.

Bagisa Mukherjee, associate professor of mathematics, Worthington Scranton, to study the defect structure in liquid crystal flows in the low shear rate regimes at the University of Minnesota.

Marlene P. Soulsby, associate professor of German and comparative literature, Worthington Scranton, to work on a manuscript, The Beauty and Sadness of Age, a comparative study of the experience of time and aging in literary texts from various cultures and time periods.

Kenneth L. Swalgin, assistant professor of kinesiology, York, to conduct research for a book, Ball Games of the World Anthology; and to work on a Web-based course on international sport, games and culture at the University of Brighton.

College of Communications

Clay Calvert, associate professor of communications and law, to conduct pro bono research and serve as a writing attorney for the nonprofit Student Press Law Center in Arlington, VA.

Dickinson School of Law

Susan Beth Farmer, professor of law, to conduct research on international and comparative competition law and policy with a focus on multi-national merger law, policy and enforcement at Harvard University.

Thomas M. Place, professor of law, to write a book for lawyers and judges on the law of sentencing in Pennsylvania.

College of Earth
and Mineral Sciences

Susan L. Brantley, professor of geosciences, to complete a book-length manuscript, Kinetics of Water Rock Interaction, and to conduct collaborative research on trace metal isotope geochemistry at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park and the University of Arizona.

Subhash Chander, professor of mineral processing and geo-environmental engineering, to conduct collaborative research in the development of bioremediation technology and to modify and teach a short course on acid mine drainage formation and treatment technology at the Lulea University of Technology.

Kevin P. Furlong, professor of geosciences, to conduct collaborative research on improving understanding of natural disasters and to improve course presentations about these phenomena in the undergraduate curriculum at Victoria University of Wellington.

C. Gregory Knight, professor of geography, to conduct collaborative research on climate change impacts on water resources and to help build regional research networks at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Sofia University; and the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia.

Suzanne E. Mohney, associate professor of materials science and engineering, to conduct collaborative research on the fabrication of antimonide-based compound semiconductors at the Department of the Navy and Lehigh University.

Carlo G. Pantano, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering, to conduct research in areas that are directly related to his expertise in glasses and glass surfaces at Imperial College and the University of Central Florida.

College of Education

William T. Hartman, professor of education, to examine the policies and practices of resource allocation used in school-based management in Australia and England, two countries that have emphasized a decentralized educational structure through state and national policy, at Cambridge University and the University of Melbourne.

James T. Herbert, professor of education and professor-in-charge of rehabilitation programs, to conduct a nationwide study in clinical supervision of rehabilitation counselors within the public nonprofit and proprietary sectors.

David B. McNaughton, associate professor of education, to conduct collaborative research on the role of education in supporting the effective use of assistive technology, especially augmentative and alternative communication technology, for individuals with severe disabilities at Temple University and the University of Nebraska.

Roger C. Shouse, associate professor of education, to teach courses on theory, policy and practice of U.S. schooling, and on leadership, power and authority as portrayed in American cinema at the National Sun Yat-Sen University or Pindong Teachers College.

Robert J. Stevens, associate professor of educational psychology, to investigate effective reading instruction and the development of reading fluency with a particular emphasis on the use of these instructional practices in high-poverty schools at the University of Georgia and the University of Illinois.

Hoi K. Suen, professor of educational psychology, to conduct an in-depth review of scoring, contents, security, psychometrics, values, utility and social consequences of the historical Keju examination system at Beijing Normal University.

Beverly J. Vandiver, associate professor of education, to take training in three advanced areas of statistics and measurement, Rasch measurement, hierarchical linear modeling and generalizability theory, and to advance research in scale development and cultural identity at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago.

College of Engineering

Jesse L. Barlow, professor of computer science and engineering, to conduct collaborative research in the interdisciplinary area of numerical linear algebra and image processing at the City University of New York.

Nirmal K. Bose, Charles H. Fetter University endowed professor of electrical engineering, to conduct collaborative research on applications of Groebner bases in multidimensional signal processing at Johannes Kepler University and to initiate research on genomic signal processing.

William D. Burgos, associate professor of environmental engineering, to conduct collaborative research related to metal and radionuclide contamination of groundwater, and to obtain experience with associate chemical reaction models at the Colorado School of Mines.

Eric F.P. Burnett, Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction and professor of Architectural and Civil Engineering, to initiate a research program on building enclosure problems related to environmental conditions associated with the northwest coast of North America, and to assist in the development of coursework and a research program in this area at the University of British Columbia.

John M. Cimbala, professor of mechanical engineering, to co-author a textbook, Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, which is intended for junior-level engineering students.

Richard F. Devon, associate professor of engineering graphics, to expand the international design activities and to explore a research agenda in design, compatible with the new program directions in engineering design and graphics at the University of Leeds, the University of Artois and the University of Navarro.

Tse-Yun Feng, Binder professor of computer engineering, to improve course materials and to prepare a book-length manuscript.

Farhan S. Gandhi, associate professor of aerospace engineering, to conduct collaborative research in the areas of intelligent and nano-damping treatments, and smart materials and structures at Sheffield University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratories in Colorado.

Louis F. Geschwindner Jr., professor of architectural engineering, to study current practices in the design of steel structures as practiced by the major structural engineering design firms in the United States at the American Institute of Steel Construction in Chicago.

Gary L. Gray, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, to develop a statics and dynamics textbook which emphasizes the use of problem-based learning, and to develop an accompanying CD-ROM that will include a tutorial for the mathematical software, example problems and instructor solutions for homework problems in Illinois and New York.

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, professor of engineering science and mechanics, to conduct research on optoelectronics of chiral sculptured thin films, and to write a research monograph on sculptured thin films at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

John D. Mathews, professor of electrical engineering, to enhance activities, publications and funding opportunities surrounding radar meteor research at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics.

Russell F. Messier, professor of engineering science and mechanics, to conduct collaborative experiments on sculptured thin films of biomaterials and to co-author a research monograph on sculptured thin films at the University of Granada.

Arthur T. Motta, associate professor of nuclear engineering, to conduct experiments and modeling in the field of irradiation induced precipitation and dissolution of second phases in Zr-based alloys at the Commissariat d'Energie Atomique in France.

M. Kevin Parfitt, associate professor of architectural engineering, to assemble a collection of detailed case history information on building performance failures for teaching, student reference and future research at Facility Engineering Associates in Virginia.

Rajeev Sharma, associate professor of computer science and engineering, to conduct research in the area of human computer interaction at Advanced Interface Technologies in State College.

Paul J. Tikalsky, associate professor of civil engineering, to conduct collaborative research on the developing of a new method to predict structural and service-life reliability for worldwide building codes at the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of Nevada Reno.

Penn State Erie

Michael A. Campbell, associate professor of biology, to conduct research related to the functional complementation of microorganisms for rapid identification of Arabidopsis genes at Rutgers University.

Antonella Cupillari, associate professor of mathematics, to complete research related to a biography of Italian mathematician Maria Agnesi.

Sharon Dale, associate professor of art history, to complete a book-length manuscript that examines the intersection of art, religion and politics in the design and patronage of the Arca di Saint' Agostino.

Carl A. Kallgren, associate professor of psychology, to develop and begin implementation of a multi-component intervention for healthy youth development with an emphasis on reducing teen-age pregnancy.

Victoria A. Kazmerski, associate professor of psychology, to conduct research on developmental and aging-related changes in the neuroanatomical foundation of language processes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

William C. Lasher, associate professor of mechanical engineering, to develop and validate a computational model for the downwind sail aerodynamics at The University of Auckland.

Penn State Great Valley

John J. Sosik, associate professor of management and organization, to study how leaders of high-tech organizations facilitate the assimilation of new technologies into their organizations.

College of Health
and Human Development

Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, professor of biobehavioral health, to develop a cultural analysis for evaluating successful national programs on HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support at the Department of Public Health in Paris and the Cheikh Anta Diop University.

John L. Beard, professor of nutrition, to conduct collaborative research on how iron modifies neuronal metabolism and how iron distribution in the brain is regulated by age, gender and iron status at Hershey Medical Center.

Robert B. Eckhardt, professor of developmental genetics and evolutionary morphology, to join an international team of researchers to study biomechanical aspects of bipedalism from the
6-million-year-old remains of early hominids that were recently found in the Tugen Hill of Kenya at the Museum of Natural History in Paris and the University of Pittsburgh.

Karen L. Fingerman, associate professor of human development and family studies, to write a theoretical paper addressing changes and continuities in social ties from birth to late life and to publish an edited volume addressing personal relationships across the life span.

Thomas A. Frank, professor of communication disorders, to acquire knowledge of innovative instructional methods and technologies for delivering distance education opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students at Penn State and to practicing speech/language pathologists and audiologists at their work site or home at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry and Nova Southeastern University.

Adele W. Miccio, associate professor of communication disorders, to conduct collaborative research on the development of English literacy in Spanish-speaking children at Harvard University.

A. Catharine Ross, professor of nutrition and Dorothy Foehr Huck chair in nutrition, to further scholarship and professional development through writing and editing a textbook, Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, and gaining new experience in molecular biology relevant to current research program at Iowa State University.

Semyon M. Slobounov, associate professor of kinesiology, to contribute to the development of the brain-computer interface based on the multi-channel brain activation records at the University of Tuebingen.

Dagmar Sternad, associate professor of kinesiology, to extend present research to three institutions that will provide complementary research expertise involving neuro-imaging experiments testing the skill acquisition process at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of the Saarland.

Cynthia A. Stifter, professor of human development, to develop a developmental model of emotion regulation, which incorporates theoretical frameworks from developmental psychopathology, temperament/personality and psychophysiology at The University of North Carolina.

College of the Liberal Arts

Michael H. Bernhard, associate professor of political science, to complete a book-length manuscript on how new democracies pick their institutions and how this choice affects their prospects for success, based on four cases drawn from German and Polish history.

Alan A. Block, professor of Jewish studies and administration of justice and director of the Jewish Studies Program, to complete a book, Years of Living Dangerously, the story of the laundering of Russian money by the Bank of New York during the 1990s.

Louis G. Castonguay, associate professor of psychology, to conduct research to understand and improve psychotherapy, including a co-edited handbook, several empirical papers and a grant renewal.

Daniel W. Conway, professor of philosophy, to complete two separate book projects devoted to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) at Copenhagen University.

Suzanna L. DeBoef, associate professor of political science, to co-write a book presenting and testing a new theory on the role of the economy in determining both individual voter choice and election outcomes.

Alan Derickson, professor of labor studies and history, to complete a draft of a book-length manuscript on the history of ideals of universal access to health care in the United States.

Amy S. Greenberg, associate professor of history, to complete a draft of a book-length manuscript, Expansionism and American Culture, 1848-1860, a study of the culture and politics of American territorial expansionism between the war with Mexico and the American Civil War.

Thomas A. Hale, liberal arts professor of African, French and comparative literature and head of the Department of French, to work on a collaborative project on African women's songs which will bring to the forefront the voices of African women who use songs as a mode of expressing individual, social and political concerns.

Irene E. Harvey, associate professor of philosophy, to complete the research and writing of a book-length manuscript, The Nature and Structures of Hunting? A Postmodern Analysis.

Marie E. Hojnacki, associate professor of political science, to continue research on disease communities as political actors, focusing on why some diseases gain significant federal funding and attention and others do not, and to prepare the results for publication.

Michael T. Kiernan, associate professor of English, to work on a critical edition of Francis Bacon's Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh and Other Works of the 1620s at the Bodleian Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library and Huntington Library.

John H. Kramer, professor of sociology and justice, to conduct research for a book and several articles on Pennsylvania's sentencing reform over the past 25 years.

Alphonso F. Lingis, professor of philosophy, to complete a book-length manuscript, Word of Honor, a book of original insights in the pragmatics of language and epistemology at Oxford University and the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

Cathleen M. Moore, associate professor of psychology, to conduct collaborative research on the relationship between two known limitations of visual information processing at the University of British Columbia.

Jonathan T. Mordkoff, associate professor of psychology, to conduct collaborative research on voluntary human action at the University of British Columbia.

B. Richard Page, associate professor of German, to conduct research on the English and Pennsylvania German languages as spoken by the Amish and Mennonite communities in central Pennsylvania.

William A. Pencak, professor of American history, to examine the major early American Jewish communities (Charleston; Lancaster; Newport, RI; New York; Philadelphia; and Savannah) before 1800, and examine the nature of Jewish-gentile relations and the development of anti-Semitism in the latter part of the 18th century at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow and the University of Stirling.

R. Barry Ruback, professor of crime, law and justice, and sociology, to investigate human reactions to social and environmental stressors in three capital cities in South Asia at Allahabad University.

John C. Sallis, Edwin Erle Sparks professor of philosophy, to complete a book-length manuscript on philosophical concepts of translation at the University of Freiburg.

John L. Selzer, professor of English, to begin work on the third of a four-volume series of books that analyze the works of the literary and rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke.

Stephanie A. Shields, professor of psychology and women's studies, to write a book, Women, Work and Emotion, that is concerned with emotion as a gendered feature within the workplace, particularly for women.

Garrett A. Sullivan, associate professor of English, to complete a draft of a book-length manuscript, Planting Oblivion: Forgetting and Identity in Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster.

Alan C. Walker, distinguished professor of anthropology and biology, to study and write a historical account of the discovery and changing significance of ape remains based on research on the bones at the National Museum of Kenya and the Natural History Museum in London.

James W. Wood, professor of anthropology and demography, to complete a book-length manuscript on the epidemiology and demography of the Black Death (1347-1350); to develop new statistical methods for use with ancient DNA sequences of syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy and other pathogens recovered from archaeological bone samples; and to initiate a major new project on the demographic and ecological history of the Orkney Islands at Odense University.

Paul B. Youngquist, associate professor of English, to complete a book-length manuscript about contemporary science fiction, Body Snatchers! Fiction and the Colonization of the Flesh.

College of Medicine

Veer P. Bhavanandan, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, to contribute to the enhancement of existing courses and to help develop new courses in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biology at Sultan Qaboos University.

Eberly College of Science

Eric D. Feigelson, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, to conduct collaborative research on understanding X-ray emissions from young stars, connecting to previous observations made with collaborators with the Chandra satellite at the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique and the Australian Defence Force Academy.

John H. Golbeck, professor of biochemistry and biophysics, to conduct collaborative research in advanced forms of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy so that these techniques can be applied to the study of primary reactions in photosynthetic systems at the Free University of Berlin.

Nigel Higson, distinguished professor of mathematics, to conduct collaborative research in operator algebra theory at the Erwin Schrodinger Institute and the University of Chicago.

Zhi-Chun Lai, associate professor of biology and biochemistry and molecular biology, to investigate how neuronal cells are specified during the Drosophila eye development through a genomic approach at the Genome Institute of Singapore.

Qi Li, associate professor of physics, to study magnetic and superconducting thin film and nanostructures using various scanning techniques at Stanford University, the University of Liege and the University of Geneve.

Ying Liu, associate professor of physics, to conduct collaborative research on the spin-triplet superconductor Sr2Ru04 at the National Center for Scientific Research at Grenoble.

B. Tracy Nixon, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, to learn advance techniques in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and crystallography at the University of California, Berkeley.

James L. Rosenberger, professor of statistics, to initiate new research projects relating to the design of microarray experiments and to review the design of statistical curricula at Moi University.

Paul E. Sokol, professor of physics, to conduct collaborative research on the microscopic dynamics of quantum systems, such as helium and hydrogen, and to pursue the development of a cold neutron chopper spectrometer at the National Center for Neutron Research in Washington, D.C.

Richard A. Wade, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics, to conduct collaborative research on the origin, evolution and properties of hot subdwarf stars in the galaxy and other stellar systems at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

Alexander Wolszczan, Evan Pugh professor of astronomy and astrophysics, to conduct collaborative research on searches for extrasolar planets and to work on pulsars and gravitational wave detection at the California Institute of Technology and the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy.

Xiaoxing Xi, associate professor of physics, to conduct collaborative research on high temperature superconductive thin films at Stanford University and Conductus Inc. in California.

Jinchao Xu, professor of mathematics, to complete several collaborative projects, to initiate a new research direction and to complete a research monograph on multigrid methods at several research institutions at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Heidelberg.

University Libraries

Johanna V. Ezell, associate librarian, head of the Mont Alto Campus Library and interim director of Academic Affairs, Mont Alto Campus, to complete the research for and to write a play about Angelina and Sarah Grimke, important 19th century Quakers who championed women's rights and fought against slavery at The Library of Congress, Howard University, Philadelphia Free Library, Radcliff College and the Society of Friends Library.

Kevin R. Harwell, associate librarian and business librarian, to investigate patent and other business information outreach services of use to independent inventors and other entrepreneurs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C.

Amanda L. Maple, associate librarian and head of the Arts and Humanities Library, to study the development of improved information retrieval systems for music collections.

Linda R. Musser, librarian and head of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Library, to conduct research related to the availability, accessibility and condition of mine maps of Pennsylvania.

Harold B. Shill, librarian and director of the Capital College Libraries, to examine the relationship between library facility improvements and library use in American colleges and universities.

Loanne L. Snavely, associate librarian and head of Instructional Programs, to study learning that has taken place in the course of experiencing information literacy programs.

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