Leaves of Absence 2003-04
Penn State Intercom......January 30, 2003

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 2003-04:

Penn State Abington

Robert L. Avanzato, associate professor of engineering and coordinator of the information sciences and technology degree, to conduct research in the area of mobile robots and to explore K-12 outreach programs in the area of robotics education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edward T. Dressler Jr., associate professor of physics, to conduct research on the theory of propagation of laser light through atmosphere and water at the Patuxent Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Md.

Ellen Andrews Knodt, associate professor of English and head of the Division of arts and Humanities, to write a book, Changing the Face of Fiction, which assesses the influence of Ernest Hemingway on writers of the 21st century.

Tom M. Warms, associate professor of computer science and engineering, to write a textbook on the C++.net programming language.

College of Agricultural Sciences

Robert B. Beelman, professor of food science, to conduct research on natural antioxidants and antimicrobials as aids to minimal processing of foods and phytochemicals in functional foods at North Carolina State University.

Robert M. Crassweller, professor of horticulture, to develop and teach a fruit production course that will be designed for teaching via the Internet and for worldwide use, pending approval of a Fulbright award, at the University of Pisa and the University of Bologna.

Chester D. Hughes, extension agent, Lancaster County, to complete course work for a master's of education degree in agriculture and extension education, College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State.

Ke Chung Kim, professor of entomology and curator, to conduct research on life processes of the component species of selected biodiversity systems; to develop an outline, chapter format and complete primary chapters for a book, Complexity of Unitary Biodiversity Systems: Biodiversity Account; and to complete and publish manuscripts on the sucking lice (Anoplura).

Frasier Beth Zahniser, associate extension agent, Mercer County, to complete course work for a master's of education degree in teaching and curriculum from Penn State Harrisburg.

Penn State Altoona

Sohail Anwar, associate professor of engineering, to teach, develop courses and conduct research in total quality management at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan.

Lori J. Bechtel, professor of biobehavioral health and head of the Division of Education, Human Development and Social Sciences, to examine the effects of and pursue further technical development of a Web-based information tool designed to strengthen student academic performance.

Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, associate professor of English, to write a book, Murder to the State: The Abolitionist Movement in Henry D. Thoreau's Concord, that examines the antislavery writings and community of Thoreau (1817-62).

College of arts and Architecture

Eleanor Duncan Armstrong, associate professor of music, to complete a compact disc recording, "Chance Encounters," including works commissioned and premiered by The Armstrong Flute and Percussion Duo; to write a tutorial text, A Flutist's Guide to Skill Building -- Production, Practice and Performance Techniques; and at universities throughout the United States offer master classes presented using materials compiled for the proposed text.

Charles S. Cave, associate professor of art, to mount an exhibition of artists' books by American and Lithuanian artists to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in Zoller Gallery at Penn State and at other venues; and to complete Rust Belt Romance, a novel that will represent his own creative work in the exhibition.

Anthony Cutler, research professor of art history, to conduct research into the relations -- technical, stylistic and iconographic -- between ivories carved in Byzantium and others produced in Ottonian Germany in the 10th and 11th centuries.

Yvonne M. Gaudelius, associate professor of art education and women's studies, to complete research and write a co-authored book, Cyborg Pedagogy: Performing in the Digital Age, that will present theoretical research exploring the intersection of performance art, technology, pedagogy and the body.

Robin L. Gibson, associate professor of art, to prepare for an exhibition of prints and drawings at Sayville Gallery, Cumberland, Md.; and to explore new technical approaches to color lithography.

Eric J. McKee, associate professor of music, to complete a draft of a book, Dance and the Music of Fryderyk Chopin, which explores the influence of social dancing on the compositions of Chopin.

Helen O'Leary, associate professor of art, to study the ancient art of Italian and Jaipuri fresco at the Sanskriti Kendra, in New Delhi, and the University of Baroda in Gujaret; and to work on a collaborative documentary book, Silage, that records local vernacular uses of abstract painting found in silage bales on local farms scattered throughout rural Ireland in the Republic of Ireland.

Bonj Szczygiel, associate professor of landscape architecture and associate director of the Center for Studies in Landscape History, to work collaboratively on the development of a conference, "The Pennsylvania Landscape Project," for scholars of the Pennsylvania landscape, the results of which will be a co-edited volume; to identify publishers to develop ideas and themes for the volume; and continue research on a historic landscape of Pennsylvania for presentation and inclusion in the book.

Penn State Berks

Randall E. Newnham, associate professor of political science, to complete a book manuscript, Germany and Poland: Economic Statecraft in an Unequal Partnership, which focuses on Germany's use of its economic power -- in the form of economic aid and economic sanctions -- to influence Poland in international affairs.

Michael D. Riley, professor of English, to work on three book-length poetry collections: Green Hills, Ashore Here and Into the Body.

Weaver Santaniello, associate professor of philosophy, to work on a book manuscript addressing Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Smeal College of Business Administration

Wayne S. DeSarbo, Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal chaired professor of marketing, to conduct research on the identification of strategic groups in an industry, which is the basis on which these develop and whether any given member belongs to multiple strategic groups, at Columbia University.

Gary L. Lilien, distinguished research professor of management sciences, to conduct collaborative research on business marketing and marketing engineering and to develop applied decision models in marketing at the University of New South Wales.

Kenneth M. Lusht, professor of business administration and chair of the Department of Insurance and Real Estate, to measure the impact of vendor (shill) bidding at auctions for residential properties at The University of Melbourne.

Penn State Harrisburg

Simon J. Bronner, distinguished professor of American studies and folklore and director of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies, to complete a book, The Battle for the Hegins Pigeon Shoot, which chronicles animal rights protests of pigeon shoots in Pennsylvania from 1989-99.

Yuefeng Xie, associate professor of environmental engineering, to conduct research on crumb rubber filtration at the University of Hong Kong and wastewater plants in Pennsylvania.

Commonwealth College

Kevin J. Berland, associate professor of English and comparative literature, Penn State Shenango, to develop a new, scholarly edition of the Dividing Line Histories, narratives of a 1728 surveying expedition to mark the Virginia-North Carolina border, by William Byrd.

Delia B. Conti, associate professor of speech communication, Penn State
McKeesport, to write a book on the rhetorical foundations of the law.

Charles Helou, professor of mathematics, Penn State Delaware County, to conduct collaborative research in several areas of mathematics related to number theory in France.

Arnold A. Markley, associate professor of English, Penn State Delaware County, to conduct research on a variety of late 18th and early 19th century British novels and their reception in the preparation of a manuscript, The Legacy of Godwin: Gothic Terror and Social Reform in English Romantic Fiction, on the literary achievements and influence of William Godwin.

David E. Miller, associate professor of physics, Penn State Hazleton, to conduct research in theoretical physics and lecture on the theoretical implications of Bose-Einstein condensation at the Universität Bielefeld in Germany and the Ruder Boskovic Institute in Zagreb, Croatia.

J. Philip Mosley, professor of English, Penn State Worthington Scranton, to produce a monograph on coal mining and cinema, Mine With a Movie Camera, that will examine various themes of American, British and Belgian documentary and feature film production in the context of social and industrial histories of coal mining in these countries.

Charles G. Prettyman, associate professor of English, Penn State Fayette, to work on a book, The Great Trust: Commercial Utopianism and U.S. Literary Culture, 1860-1900, that will focus on utopian visions inspired by commercial innovations of the time, ranging from mass production to the structuring of trusts.

Thomas W. Smialek Jr., associate professor of music and integrative arts, Penn State Hazleton, to work collaboratively and prepare two ongoing pedagogical research studies which assess the effectiveness of group learning and online testing in Music 5, "Introduction to Western Music," and to prepare the studies for publication in scholarly journals.

College of Communications

Ann Marie Major, associate professor of communications, to conduct research examining how the environmental debate is framed through newspaper, publicity and government photographs.

Anthony A. Olorunnisola, associate professor of communications, to teach a graduate-level course on global medical interface with political and economic processes and to conduct research on levels of media transformation in post-apartheid South Africa, pending approval of a Fulbright award, at the University of Natal, in Durban, South Africa.

Jorge Reina Schement, professor of telecommunications, to write a book, Castle to Node: The New Digital Home and its Threat to Democracy, that examines how information technologies have transformed the American home in a way that poses a threat to democratic participation.

Shyam Sundar Sethuraman, associate professor of communications, to conduct research on psychological aspects of communication technology at The Amsterdam School of Communications Research, The Netherlands.

Richard D. Taylor, James R. and Barbara R. Palmer chair in telecommunications studies, to serve as a visiting scholar and to continue, enhance and expand scholarship and pedagogy in the fields of information economics and the relationship between new communications technologies and national economic development at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Dickinson School of Law

Katherine C. Pearson, professor of law, to create teaching materials for support and expansion of the Elder Law Clinic, and for other courses in elder law; and to complete with a co-author a book, Pennsylvania Elder Law.

Robert E. Rains, professor of law, to conduct research and continue scholarship in comparative and international family law in the United States and Italy at the University of Buckingham Law School.

Victor C. Romero, professor of law, to conduct research and write a book, Immigration and the Constitution: A Critical Perspective, on constitutional immigration law.

College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Roger M. Downs, professor and head of the Department of Geography, to conduct research and complete a book on the development of geography as a school subject in the United States.

James F. Kasting, professor of geosciences, to conduct collaborative research in the development of numerical models of hydrogen escape from various atmospheres on Earth and Venus at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

Gregory S. Jenkins, associate professor of meteorology, to conduct research related to climate change in West Africa in Dakar, Senegal, and Cheihk Anta Diop University.

Digby D. Macdonald, professor of materials science and engineering, to complete a book, The Passive State -- Key to Our Metals-Based Civilization, on passivity and passivity breakdown in electrochemical systems and to conduct collaborative research on the passivity of various metals at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

Alan H. Taylor, professor of geography, to conduct research on the long-term linkages of climate variation and regional fire regimes in central and northern California and to serve as a visiting scholar at the USDA Forest Service Silviculture Laboratory in Redding, Calif.

Susan Trolier-McKinstry, professor of ceramic science and engineering, to conduct research in oxide thin film deposition, microelectromechanical systems and dielectric characterization at the University of Maryland.

Lakshman Yapa, professor of geography, to continue work on a service-learning project called the Philadelphia Field Project, in which research is conducted related to various aspects of poverty, racism, education and access to services in Philadelphia.

College of Education

David P. Baker, professor of education, to collaborate in a cross-national study of the political development and education of youth and the effects of political, economic and social national conditions at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Gerald K. LeTendre, associate professor of education, to study substance abuse prevention and intervention programs in German public schools at the University of Bremen.

Martin A. Simon, professor of education, to further research the development and articulation of a theory of mathematics teaching/learning designed to account for conceptual development.

College of Engineering

David J. Cannon, associate professor of industrial engineering, to accept a fellowship under the auspices of the U.S. Navy-American Society of Engineering Education and to implement a new class of cable array robot onto a Navy vessel for sea trials at the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center in Port Hueneme, Calif.

Francesco Costanzo, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, to develop educational materials to facilitate the adoption of problem-based learning in sophomore-level mechanics courses; and to conduct collaborative research to derive a semi-analytical solution tool for dynamic crack propagation problems in thermo-elastic solids at Texas A&M University and the University of Florida.

Edward C. DeMeter, associate professor of industrial engineering, to conduct research related to lasers, laser processing and optics.

Brian A. Dempsey, professor of environmental engineering, to conduct collaborative research on the use of natural polymeric materials for removal of contaminants from water at the Laboratoire Génie de l'Environnement Industrial in AlPs, France.

John F. Doherty, associate professor of electrical engineering, to conduct collaborative research in receiver design for wireless communications systems at the Applied Research Laboratory.

Randall M. German, Brush chair professor in materials and director of the Center for Innovative Sintered Products, to conduct collaborative research on applying continuum mechanic concepts to finite element analysis of sintering events (densification, distortion and microstructure evolution) at San Diego State University.

Mary Jane Irwin, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering, to present research-focused short-courses at a number of international universities; and to develop new instructional resources for courses at Penn State, pending the award of a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

Peggy A. Johnson, associate professor of civil engineering, to develop a rapid-channel, stability assessment method, based on a wide variety of stream types, to assure safety of bridge foundations from erosion.

Mohsen Kavehrad, William L. Weiss professor of electrical engineering and director of the Center for Information and Communications Technology research, to conduct research on broadband communications at Stanford University.

Bohdan T. Kulakowski, professor of mechanical engineering and director of The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, to complete revisions to the book, Dynamic Modeling and Control of engineering Systems, and to evaluate the effectiveness of various pedagogical methodologies in teaching a course on modeling and control of dynamic systems at Boise State University.

Bruce E. Logan, Kappe professor of environmental engineering, to examine the potential for large-scale production of hydrogen gas and energy from wastewater, pending the award of a Fulbright, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Costas D. Maranas, associate professor of chemical engineering, to conduct collaborative research on the new field of in silico or computational biology, specifically metabolic engineering computations for living cells at two biotechnology companies, Genencor International Inc., Palo Alto, and Genomatica Inc., San Diego.

Mark D. Maughmer, professor of aerospace engineering, to conduct research on wind turbine blade tip design at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colo.

Paul E. Plassmann, associate professor of computer science and engineering, to develop new scalable algorithms and software in a number of research areas including the integration of radiation, turbulence and chemistry in combustion simulations and unstructured meshes that are widely used in the automobile industry and academic research Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M.

Arunachalam Ravindran, professor of industrial engineering, to develop collaborations in the area of enterprise integration and supply chain management at the Indian Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore and Global R&D Operations at General Motors in Warren.

Jerzy Ruzyllo, professor of electrical engineering, to conduct collaborative research on the processing and characterization of silicon surfaces to develop new process applications, joint proposals and papers at the Warsaw University of Technology; and QC Solutions, North Billerica, Mass.

Nicholas J. Salamon, professor of engineering science and mechanics, to conclude a major research project that integrates design with traditional strength of materials and to write a book, Mechanics of Materials with Design.

M. Albert Vannice, Merrill R. Fenske professor of chemical engineering, to write a textbook, Kinetics of Catalytic Reactions, that discusses the fundamental aspects of analyzing kinetic data as well as the physical significance of assumption made during the derivation of rate expressions based on a proposed series of elementary reaction steps.

Vijay K. Varadan, distinguished alumni professor of engineering science and mechanics and electrical engineering, and co-director of the Research Center for the Engineering of Electronic and Acoustic Materials and Devices, to conduct collaborative research to develop microwave-driven smart membrane actuators and microwave-power small flying objects at Stanford University and the Langley research Center at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Hampton, Va.

Qiming Zhang, professor of electrical engineering, to investigate the science and technology of all polymer-micro-electro-mechanical systems which are based on the high performance elactroactive polymers, pending the award of a Guggenheim fellowship, at the California Institute of Technology.

Penn State Erie

Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing, to enhance the research capacity among business school faculty in Bangladesh to help transform the curriculum; and to conduct research on health-care service delivery in Bangladesh to introduce patient perspectives in service quality evaluation and influence policy at East West University.

Dean R. Baldwin, professor of English, to conduct research for a book, Indian Short Story in English, 1890-1970, on the history of the Asian Indian short story in English at Oxford University and in London.

George William Baxter III, associate professor of physics, to conduct research on granular gases at the University of Kansas.

Eric W. Corty, associate professor of psychology, to conduct research on the relationship between a personality variable (introversion) and ejaculatory latency in order to further understanding of the etiology of rapid ejaculation at the Center for Marital and Sexual Health Inc., Beachwood, Ohio.

Joseph E. Paullet, associate professor of mathematics, to complete research investigating pattern formation in active media and boundary value problems from fluid and solid mechanics, including the question of magnetohydrodynamic stagnation point.

Soledad Traverso, associate professor of Spanish, to write a book-length comprehensive study of three Latin American avant-garde writers, whose literary works were important in the literary production in Latin America at the Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Rod L. Troester, associate professor of communication, to integrate and update technology in the content and delivery of courses taught; and to investigate and incorporate the concept of service-learning into these courses, by assisting in the research mission of the newly created Janet Neff Sample Center for Manners and Civility.

Penn State Great Valley

Effy Oz, associate professor of management science and information systems, to conduct research on the patterns of corporate spending during period of disaster recovery planning.

Denise Potosky, associate professor of management and organization, to conduct research on Internet-based personal selection by using commercially available tests and with the development of a new test that capitalizes upon the unique features of Internet and Web technology.

College of Health and Human Development

S. Diane Brannon, professor and head of the Department of Health Policy and Administration, to conduct research on the codification of best practices in the management of long-term care organizations.

Linda L. Caldwell, professor of recreation and park management, to lead the development and evaluation of a leisure education-based substance use prevention program in central Pennsylvania over the past three years.

John H. Challis, associate professor of kinesiology, to develop the techniques for the analysis of muscle function in vivo using ultrasound, and specifically, to examine the properties of the Achilles tendon during contractions of the triceps surae.

Rebecca L. Corwin, associate professor of nutrition, to conduct collaborative research in the area of behavioral neurobiology at Wake Forest University.

Janice C. Light, professor of communication disorders, to conduct collaborative research to improve outcomes for individuals with severe communication disabilities; and to investigate innovative pedagogical techniques to improve undergraduate and graduate education in communication sciences and disorders at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and The University of British Columbia.

College of the Liberal Arts

Bernard W. Bell, professor of English, to lecture in China; to help establish the first African-American Studies Center in China; and to continue with two research projects, one to revise and reorganize 11 selected essays from 1971 to 2001 into a book, Bearing Witness to the Changing Same, and the other to begin updating and expanding an unpublished 1974 biocritical study titled, Jean Toomer: A Portrait of the African-American arts as a Transgressive New American, pending approval of a Fulbright award.

William T. Bianco, associate professor of political science, to conduct research linking three important conceptions of trust in a political context: trust in government, trust in others and trust in elected officials.

Richard A. Carlson, professor of psychology, to prepare a book manuscript, Consciousness: Subjectivity, Agency and Reflection in Cognitive Science, that reviews and extends empirical and theoretical work conducted since 1997.

Vincent M. Colapietro, professor of philosophy, to conduct research and writing for the completion of a book, Working Through Differences: Rereading Pragmatism and Psychoanalysis, that analyzes important points of intersection between representative American pragmatists and psychoanalytic theorists at the Peirce Edition Project in Indianapolis and Houghton Library at Harvard University.

E. Paul Durrenberger, professor of anthropology, to compare member perceptions of unions in more and less centralized locals in Pennsylvania and Chicago.

Garrett G. Fagan, associate professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies and history, to research a book tracing the history of two Roman senatorial houses from inception to disappearance, in order to gain a new perspective on issues of continuity and change as the Roman state moved from a free republic to monarchy under the emperors, pending the award of an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship.

Cary F. Fraser, professor of African and African-American studies and history, and director of the Africana Research Center, to complete a manuscript, In the Shadow of Jim Crow: Race in American Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy from the Atlantic Charter (1941) to the Voting Rights Act (1965), that focuses on race in American domestic policy over the period 1941-65, pending the award of an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship.

Cheryl J. Glenn, associate professor of English and women's studies, to write a book, Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence, that examines the traditional binary between speech and silence by reviewing Western cultures' view of silence.

J. Michael Hogan, professor of communication arts and sciences, to conduct a historical and critical investigation of Mass-Observation, a scholarly and popular movement that took a unique approach to opinion research in Great Britain during World War II.

Valarie E. King, associate professor of sociology, demography, and human development and family studies, to conduct research on children's relationships with their stepfathers and nonresident biological fathers, which is part of a larger multi-year project examining variation in nonresident father involvement and its implications for child well-being.

Lynn S. Liben, distinguished professor of psychology, to analyze spatial-graphic representations (such as maps and diagrams) as an aid for human thought, communication and action, which extends current collaborative research on children's developing understanding of maps to the development of new systems for coding, analyzing and displaying the data; and to prepare a chapter on development geography for the Handbook of Child Psychology at Columbia University.

Susan Mohammed, associate professor of psychology, to complete a comprehensive review of the literature on group decision-making, and to establish working relationships with team-based companies in order to collect data from organizational samples.

Mark S. Morrisson, associate professor of English, to conduct research and write a book, The Newer Alchemy and the Ownership of Atomic Theory, 1900-1939.

Michelle G. Newman, associate professor of psychology, to continue development of research program as it relates to the determination of how psychotherapy can be conducted effectively and efficiently, including writing articles, submitting a proposal for external funding and developing a Web-based intervention program for anxiety.

D. Wayne Osgood, professor of crime, law and justice and sociology, to conduct research on the contribution of time use to involvement in deviant behaviors such as violence, theft and illicit drug use; to complete these studies and submit them for publication as a set of journal articles; and to formulate future directions for this research program and to submit proposals for grants to support that work.

William J. Ray, professor of psychology, to explore experimentally and theoretically the manner in which cognitive, affective and evolutionary neuroscience mechanisms inform our understanding of psychopathology at the University of Konstanz in Germany.

Lisa A. Reed, associate professor of French and linguistics, to study causative constructions of two areas of French grammar that remain inadequately described even in the most detailed texts in order to develop informed, empirically superior syntactic and semantic accounts of these constructions.

Jacqueline K. Rogers, associate professor of labor studies and industrial relations, sociology and women's studies, to work on an interdisciplinary study of the under-representation of women in the information technology work force in order to disseminate and publish research generated from the data, and to prepare another interdisciplinary funded proposal to extend the present research.

Guido Ruggiero, Josephine Berry Weiss chair in the humanities and professor of Renaissance history, to complete two book projects: Machiavelli in Love and Other Essays on Self, Sex and Society in the Italian Renaissance and Lost Treasures ... or the Adventures of Antonio Saldagna Sometimes Monk, Priest, Jew, Humanist, Teacher, Lover, Magician, Scientist, Friend of the Rich and Powerful, Inveterate Plotter, Hunter of Treasures, Weaver of Tales and Wanderer in Strange Lands, pending award of a fellowship from Cambridge.

Janina M. Safran, associate professor of history, to continue research for a book on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations in Islamic Iberia (al-Andalus) from the eighth to 11th centuries, with a focus on the definition, contestation and negotiation of communal boundaries and communal identity.

Willa Z. Silverman, associate professor of French and Jewish studies, to complete writing and to prepare for publication the manuscript of a book that explores the culture of bibliophiles in turn-of-the-century France, pending the award of possible fellowships.

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.

Jean-Claude Vuillemin, associate professor of French, to conduct research for the preparation and publication of a critical edition of one of Jean Rotrou's plays, "L'Innocente Infidélité" (1637), which is part of a larger collaborative project now under way by a worldwide team of 17th-century French drama scholars to publish Rotrou's complete theater, in Paris.

Neil Wallace, professor of economics, to conduct research in monetary theory, related to the study of central bank policy and pairwise trade as a basis for endogenous transactions costs, and to prepare teaching materials for Economics 451, "Monetary Theory and Policy."

Penn State Schuylkill

Helen M. Hendy, assistant professor of psychology, to conduct research examining the immediate and lasting effectiveness of four teacher actions to encourage food acceptance of nutritious foods in preschool children.

Eberly College of Science

Paul F. Baum, Evan Pugh professor of mathematics, to conduct collaborative research on an aspect of K-theory, termed the Baum-Connes Conjecture, at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures-Sur-Yvette, France.

Donald A. Bryant, Ernest C. Pollard professor of biotechnology and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, to perform comparative genomic analyses of phototrophs and to edit a book, Genomics of Phototrophs at The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md., the Institut Pasteur and Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.

Vincent H. Crespi, associate professor of physics and materials science and engineering and the Downsbrough professor, to develop collaboratively a user-initiated dynamically reconfigurable Web-based system for use by the research physics community and for use in teaching physics; and to continue research of the empirical side of materials chemistry.

Anatole Katok, Shibley professor of mathematics, to conduct collaborative research in smooth ergodic theory, including a major advance in writing a comprehensive research monograph at Instituo Superior Tecnico, in Lisbon; Kyoto University, in Japan; the University of Tokyo; Chuo University, in Tokyo; and Ryukoku University, Fukahusa, in Kyoto.

Svetlana Katok, professor of mathematics, to conduct research in hyperbolic dynamics on homogeneous spaces: Coding of the geodesic flows, Livshitz theory for partially hyperbolic systems, and rigidity of actions by higher rank abelian groups at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, in Lisbon; Kyoto University, in Japan; and Nihon University, in Tokyo.

Bruce G. Lindsay, distinguished professor of statistics and director of the Center for Likelihood Studies, to focus on the development of statistical methods in a high dimensional data, especially in mixture models, with the project resulting in a book manuscript at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, Calif.

Gary L. Mullen, professor and head of the Department of Mathematics, to write a research monograph on the theory and application of finite fields at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Masatoshi Nei, Evan Pugh professor of biology, to conduct research on molecular evolution and to write a book, Mutation as the Driving Force of Evolution, at several institutions.

Yakov B. Pesin, professor of mathematics, to conduct research in dynamical systems theory and applications to ergodic theory, dimension theory and thermodynamical formalism at Kyoto University in Japan.

Joseph L. Schafer, associate professor of statistics, to conduct collaborative research in the analysis of observational studies and intervention, trials pertaining to adolescent substance use, antisocial behavior and mental illness at the University of Melbourne.

Paul S. Weiss, professor of chemistry, to study and develop conventional and unconventional nanofabrication techniques at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

University Libraries

Helen M. Sheehy, associate librarian, to research the mapping activities of the United Nations and to develop a comprehensive index to the maps contained in the working papers of the organization at Dag Hammarskjold Library in New York City.

Leon J. Stout, librarian and head of Public Services and Outreach, to study electronic record program development in archives and records management programs, specifically focusing on Penn State.

Gary W. White, associate librarian and head of the Schreyer Business Library, to research the necessary education requirements and core competencies of librarians engaged in business librarianship in the context of increased demand/shortened supply of librarians.

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