Educational excellence
can be obtained only with a vital faculty that actively
pursues new developments in knowledge and teaching.
An award of time for such projects enables faculty
members to improve individually and to achieve educational
objectives.
The following 2005-06 development assignments have
been approved by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa.
Jonathan Mark Adrain, geoscience, will seek to establish
a global database of fossil trilobite species.
Kay Amert, journalism and mass communication, will
work on a book about the work of Simon de Colines,
a French Renaissance publisher.
Daniel D. Anderson, mathematics, will study the
factorization of elements in a commutative ring.
R. David Arkush, history, will work on a book about
how villagers in a region of north China before the
Communist revolution thought about their world, based
on analyses of hundreds of local folk tales.
Jill N. Beckman, linguistics, will record and analyze
the consonants of Dutch, integrating her results
into a larger, ongoing study of consonant systems.
David Bennett, geography, will extend and document
for publication the results of an NSF-funded project
on human-nature interactions in the northern elk
winter range of Yellowstone.
Elmer A. Bettis III, geoscience, will visit the
University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand,
to participate in a field and laboratory investigation
of loess (wind-blown silt).
Debashish Bhattacharya, biological
sciences, will develop functional genomic resources
for the “red
tide” causing toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium
tamarense.
M. Asghar Bhatti, civil and environmental engineering,
will complete the advanced volume of a series of
books about the finite element method.
Frauke M. Bleher, mathematics, will study applications
of a new deformation theory which she developed with
T. Chinburg for derived categories of Galois representations.
Robert Bork, art and art history, will study the
geometry of Gothic architectural drawings, the oldest
surviving blueprints in history.
Art Borreca, theatre arts, will complete revisions
of a book, a proposal for a second book, and an article
on the theory of dramatic technique as it relates
to the teaching of playwriting.
Wayne A. Bowers, psychiatry, will train UI and community
therapists in cognitive therapy and assess whether
the therapy reduces relapse and is superior to community
standards in treatment of anorexia nervosa.
Thomas L. Casavant, biomedical engineering and electrical
and computer engineering, will visit the Center for
Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm, where he will develop new software
and methods for drug development.
Chi-Lien Cheng, biological sciences, will establish
a transformation system in the study of signaling
and genetic pathways in ferns.
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, anthropology, will investigate
whether regional economies grow less for the values
that producers share than for a collective stockpile
of ideas—a cultural commons—that producers
exploit and regenerate.
Michael E. Dailey, biological sciences, will study
fluorescence resonance energy transfer, photobleaching
recovery, and spectral imaging to find new information
on the dynamic organization and interaction of proteins
in live cells.
Steve Duck, communication studies, will develop
a book and a new undergraduate course on personal
relationships and the role of relationships in persuasion.
Michael Eckert, music, will compose Quilt
Music,
a composition in five movements for symphony orchestra.
Barbara Eckstein, English, will interview former
foremen of Republic Steel to place their perspective
in the analysis of deindustrialization.
Mary Lou Emery, English, will investigate the obsession
with houses—as a literary symbol and a social
program—in early 20th-century Britain, and
specifically, the connection between this obsession
and anti-immigration laws which excluded certain
populations from British residence.
Laurel Farrin, art and art history, will make five
paintings in New York City, alluding to modernist
masterpieces and 19th-century American landscape
and letter-rack paintings.
Katherine Eberle Fink, music, will travel to Canada
to research art songs of Canadian female composers,
write an article on the project, mount concerts in
Canada, and commission new works by a Canadian female
composer, poet, and visual artist.
Kristine L. Fitch, communication studies, will finish
a book on friendship, marriage, family, and work
relationships across four cultures: England, Spain,
Colombia, and the United States.
Robert G. Franciscus, anthropology, will use an
experimental growth approach to test models for the
evolution of modern human craniofacial form and help
refine treatments for clinical patients with dentofacial
deformities.
Sonya J. Franklin, chemistry, will construct designer
proteins to build DNA-crosslinking metals, such as
plantinum, and to deliver these metals to DNA sequences
of choice for selective and targeted chemotheraphy.
Craig A. Gibson, classics, will examine the role
of the classical Greek orator Demosthenes in the
educational program of the later Roman empire.
Eric Gidal, English, will study the connection between
personal melancholy and political engagement in the
lives and writings of Thomas Jefferson and the English
poet Lord Byron.
Edward G. Gillan, chemistry, will establish internal
and external research collaborations to accelerate
the local structural analysis and investigation of
the physical properties of carbon nitride networks
recently synthesized in his laboratory.
Josephine Gittler, law, will develop instructional
materials on health care fraud and abuse for use
by law students.
Sabine I. Gölz, cinema and comparative literature,
will write a book on the writings on photography
by the prominent German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin
(1892-1940).
Wendelin Guentner, French and Italian, will edit
a collection of fourteen essays called Vanishing
Acts: Women and the Art World in Nineteenth-Century
France, to which she also will contribute three chapters.
Vicki Hesli, political science, will investigate
the formation, development, and institutionalization
of political opposition through a comparative analysis
of Central Asian states—an area beset with
civil wars and international military interventions.
Julie Berger Hochstrasser, art and art history,
will explore 17th-century Dutch art through the prism
of global trade and cultural interaction, reframing
the art period’s study.
Philip Kaaret, physics and astronomy, will measure
bright X-ray sources in other galaxies which may
represent a new class of black hole with masses intermediate
between the two known classes.
L. Kevin Kastens, music, will transcribe Percy Grainger’s
manuscript score of Blithe Bells for modern concert
band.
Kevin Kopelson, English, will write an accessible
guide to satire that pays close attention to its
confessional aspect.
Kenneth Kress, law, will develop an article arguing
against new originalism, a concept urged by Supreme
Court Justice Scalia that rejects using the Framers’ intentions
as less certain than using meaning alone.
Vijay Kumar, pharmaceutics, will investigate novel
biodegradable oxidized celluloses seeded with isolated
heart cells to regenerate cardiac tissue functions
in vitro and in vivo.
Richard Brooks Landon, English, will write the introduction
to a book studying the cultural uses and importance
of narratives that describe first contact with a
radically different alien race, species, or entity.
Michel S. Laronde, French and Italian, will study
the massacre of North Africans in Paris on Oct. 17,
1961, during a demonstration in favor of the independence
of Algeria.
Debora L. Liddell, counseling, rehabilitation, and
student development, will consolidate and analyze
data generated from at least 20 previous studies
using the Measure of Moral Obligation, a professional
tool she designed in 1990 that measures college students’ decision-making
preferences in terms of moral voice, with an orientation
toward either care or justice.
Heather MacDonald, urban and regional planning,
will compare the evolution of national censuses in
four countries (the United States, Canada, Britain,
and South Africa) and investigate how census data
shapes social and economic policies in each country.
Waltraud Maierhofer, German, will study relevant
literature and write chapters of a book on perceptions,
myths, and images of the witch in German fiction
of the 17th through the 19th century.
Kim Marra, theatre arts, will research and write
a chapter on New York actresses and the popular genre
of equestrian drama when both the theater and the
horse experienced a golden age in the United States
from 1865 to 1930.
Louis Messerle, chemistry, will develop the chemistry
and in vitro MRI potential of compounds with 4-15
europiums, in collaboration with radiology faculty.
Paula Michaels, history, will trace the story of
psychoprophylaxis, known in the United States as
the Lamaze method, in the Cold War context of the
technique’s transfer over the Iron Curtain.
Michael Mount, management and organizations, will
study the external validity and quality of multi-source
feedback ratings managers use for developmental and
administrative purposes.
Robert Mutel, physics and astronomy, will study
the properties of magnetic field structures in parsec-scale
relativistic radio jets associated with active galaxies
and quasars, spending most of the developmental semester
at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro,
N.M.
Kathleen E. Newman, Spanish and Portuguese, will
write two chapters of a book project on the filmic
representation of sovereignty, the presidency, and
the culture of violence over the last 30 years; and
on the role of cinema in the furthering of American
democracy.
Lisa Oakes, psychology, will learn the event-related
brain potential technique, a neuroscience technique
in which changes in brain activity are measured,
and use it to deepen understanding of the development
of short-term memory.
Catriona M. Parratt, health and sports studies,
will analyze the Scottish Highland Wars in the larger
contexts of important debates over sport and the
Great War and Scottish land use politics.
Alan Peters, urban and regional planning, will study
four national censuses (the United States, Canada,
Britain, and South Africa) with a focus on issues
that continue to plague national censuses: the failure
to count full national populations; difficulties
measuring race, ethnicity, and religion; and ambiguities
in the measurement of the economy.
Todd E. Pettys, law, will examine the frequently
lamented ratchet effect in American federalism.
Norbert J. Pienta, chemistry, will conduct a comprehensive
project to collect information about the impact of
introductory chemistry courses on students seeking
to major in nursing or related allied health sciences.
Morton P. K. Pincus, accounting, will investigate
the comparability of company financial reports, and
whether rules- or principles-based accounting standards
improve comparability.
Daniel M. Quinn, chemistry, will study how to combine
in a single molecule the elements needed not only
to allay the cognitive deficit of Alzheimer’s
disease but also to slow the progression of the disease.
B. Ravikumar, economics, will examine whether barriers
to capital mobility and technology adoption can account
for the cross-country differences in income levels.
Margaret Raymond, law, will explore the polarization
of the criminal bar, assessing the scope of the problem
and its implications for the justice system, considering
other models, and addressing how legal education
can address the polarization model and make law school
graduates better and less-biased advocates.
Mark K. Reagan, geosciences, will determine how,
why, and when explosive lavas are generated in volcanic
arcs.
Johnmarshall Reeve, psychological and quantitative
foundations, will travel to Seoul, South Korea, to
conduct a pair of data-based research studies on
students’ motivation and teachers’ motivating
styles; and to New Jersey, where he will work with
two collaborators at Rutgers University to complete
ancillaries for a book project.
Kevin G. Rice, medicinal and natural products chemistry,
will work with researchers in viral gene delivery
labs in the College of Medicine to develop gene therapeutics.
Marilynne Robinson, creative writing, will interpret
the first five books of the Bible, placing the scriptures
in the context of biblical, Ancient Near Eastern,
and ancient Mediterranean literatures, in order to
restore the Bible as a readable document for teachers,
students, writers, and others.
Adriana Mendez Rodenas, Spanish and Portuguese,
will undertake a study of five representative travel
writers to Latin America, Mexico, the Southern Cone,
the Caribbean, and Brazil; and how the writers’ voyages
spanned the birth of the republics to the transition
to modernity at the turn of the century. She also
will develop an anthology of sources on the slavery
debate in 19th-century Cuba, along with a critical
introduction.
Christopher D. Roy, art and art history, will spend
spring 2006 in Burkina Faso attending the National
Cultural Week and other cultural events to gather
material on the changes that have taken place in
Burkina’s cultural traditions during the 30
years he has been doing research in the country.
Gary J. Russell, marketing, will develop new tools
for the specification and calibration of spatial
choice models in consumer behavior settings.
Edward J. Saunders, social work, will examine current
trends in social work education in China and compare
it with social work education in the United States.
Jack D. Scudder, physics and astronomy, will participate
in the design and implementation of a suite of experiments
to be deployed on four co-orbital NASA satellites
of the MMS mission to study the process of CMR.
Carol Severino, rhetoric, will extend the diary
analyses of applied linguists to examine affective,
cognitive, and cultural factors in advanced second
language writers’ literacy learning.
Elias S. W. Shiu, statistics and actuarial sciences,
will study current problems in asset and liability
management of insurance companies.
Mark Sidel, law, will study the public and private
legal responses to the problem of slavery, trafficking,
and involuntary servitude in the United States.
Roumyana Slabakova, linguistics, will begin wrting
a book called The Second Language Acquisition
of Meaning.
Peggie R. Smith, law, will explore proposals to
address the shortage of quality child care from the
perspective of women who labor as child care workers.
Alexander Somek, law, will study the age of modern
constitutional law in light of the current ascendancy
of supranational authority.
Milan Sonka, electrical and computer engineering,
will submit for clinical tests a Virtual Liver Surgery
Planning System.
Margaret Stratton, art and art history, will undertake
a project to reveal the worldwide role of fireworks
as spectacles of celebration and destruction.
Ramaswamy Subramanian, biochemistry, will test a
hypothesis that “natively unfolded” proteins
(such as á-synuclein in Parkinson’s
disease) maintain a fine balance between their unfolded
and folded state and that tipping the equilibrium
towards the unfolded state causes diseases.
James A. Throgmorton, urban and regional planning,
will complete work on a book about urban and regional
planning in Louisville, Ky.
James Joseph Tomkovicz, law, will produce comprehensive,
publishable materials for a unique law school course
on sex offenses and sex offenders.
H.S. Udaykumar, mechanical and industrial engineering,
will develop a computational algorithm to perform
multiscale simulations of thermal transport phenomena.
Russell Valentino, Russian/CCL, will study two emergent
nations (Russia and the United States) in early 19th-century
imagined geography, exploring key aspects of the
specific paths into modernity taken by each, using
virtue as its organizing theme.
Stephen Vlastos, history, will research a book in
comparative international relations focusing on Japan’s
relations with the United States, Great Britain,
and France from 1900 to 1932.
Rahima Wade, curriculum and instruction, will write
a book, Elementary Social Studies for Social
Justice,
based on 40 teacher interviews and 15 hours of focus
group interviews with 10 of the teachers.
Edward A. Wasserman, psychology, will study the
intelligence of great apes at the Great Ape Trust
of Iowa.
David Watson, psychology, will develop a multidimensional
inventory of depression and anxiety symptoms for
use in adolescent samples.
John Westefeld, psychological and quantitative foundations,
will review literature across mental health disciplines
to evaluate the results from research on effective
training and preparation for graduate students in
psychotherapy.
Thomas Williams, philosophy, will write a book on
the thought of Saint Anselm for an Oxford University
Press series, Great Medieval Thinkers.
Paul Windschitl, psychology, will conduct two experiments
on the key commonalities and differences in the cognitive
processes that shape probability judgments and comparative
judgments.
Kee-ho Yuen, art and art history, will explore new
expressive houseware design objects (trays, tea sets,
and vessel forms) and make multiple productions with
new technologies (3-D computer modeling, laser cutting,
and innovative materials).
Dale Zimmerman, statistics and actuarial sciences,
will develop statistical methodology for testing
hypotheses that the elements of a mean or covariance
matrix of a multivariate normal distribution can
be expressed as products of a much smaller set of
parameters.
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