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 institutional
educational objectives. These projects all relate
to the educational mission of the University and
involve research in a wide range of fields of value
to the University.
The following 2004-05 development assignments have
been approved by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa:
Charlotte Adams, dance, will examine the effects
of yoga for performing artists by taking a six-month
yoga teaching certification course.
Elizabeth M. Altmaier, psychological and quantitative
foundations, will examine and compare three national
systems—including that of the United States—to
determine effective approaches to quality assurance
within psychology.
Rick Altman, cinema and comparative literature,
will work on the second volume in his series on Hollywood
sound, a volume covering the history of film sound
from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Eric G. Andersen, law, will examine the methods
by which restitutionary awards are measured, and
the relations of those methods to the various circumstances
in which a duty to restore benefits conferred arises.
Florence E. Babb, anthropology and women’s
studies, will travel to Nicaragua and Cuba to conduct
a comparative study that will consider the two nations’ use
of the revolutionary past as they refashion these
locations to attract global tourist markets.
Isabel Barbuzza, art and art history, will develop
six sculptures using discarded objects and books
as raw material, analyze the transformation of print
and book postmodern culture into a more contemporary
visual culture, incorporate her research in Topics
in Sculpture: The Sculptural Book, and propose an
exhibition in New York.
Douglas Baynton, history, will study the history
of immigration policy using interpretive approaches
recently developed in disability studies and place
immigration laws in the context of changing attitudes
toward disability.
Ruth A. Bentler, speech pathology and audiology,
plans to complete data collection and analysis on
a series of projects examining outcomes of rehabilitative
training with new-technology hearing aids funded
by the Retirement Research Foundation, and begin
a textbook on advanced hearing aids.
Randall P. Bezanson, law, will complete a book on
the history, theory, doctrine, and practice of religious
freedom in America called How Free Can Religion
Be?,
the last of a trilogy on the First Amendment, and
will complete a study on enterprise liability of
the press in public libel cases.
Linda Bolton, English, will work on Behold
This Face: Dialogues on Art, Ethics, and Justice, a book
based on conversations with five women artists, using
their work as a catalyst for literary dialogue.
Patricia A. Cain, law, will revise her book Rainbow
Rights: The Role of Lawyers and Courts in the Lesbian
and Gay Civil Rights Movement to incorporate important
court decisions.
John C. Cameron, theatre arts, will adapt Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a contemporary
drama and submit it to theatres for possible production.
Diana Fritz Cates, religious studies, will complete
Genetic Guilt: Genetic Information and Religious
Emotion, a work of philosophical psychology, religious
ethics, and bioethics.
Kung-Sik Chan, statistics and actuarial science,
will analyze infectious disease systems using new
statistical methods for screening and estimating
the effects of biological and environmental factors
influencing disease transmission.
Thomas H. Charlton, anthropology, will study pre-Hispanic
civilizations of the Basin of Mexico (circa 100 B.C.
to A.D. 1521) by carrying out surface surveys with
collections and test excavations in a resource-rich
but geographically peripheral area in the Basin.
Chunghi Choo, art and art history, will create a
body of expressive sculptural objects and vessel
forms, using new innovative and time-saving techniques,
and will research and experiment with pigments, which
will allow her to paint on metal, as on canvas, with
durable archival permanence.
Gary E. Christensen, electrical and computer engineering,
will use image registration to remove individual
anatomical shape differences so brain function can
be studied more accurately.
Dare Clubb, theatre arts, will study Boccaccio’s
writings,
Botticelli’s art, and Italian director Giorgio
Strehler’s directing techniques in libraries
and museums in Milan, Florence, and Rome; write a
full-length play; and direct a reading of the new
work in New York City.
Jeffrey Cox, history, will complete his third major
book, The British Missionary Movement, 1700-2000,
which will be written for a broad audience interested
in the global expansion of Christianity and in symbolic
representations of Christian/non-Christian and Western/non-Western
peoples.
Warren G. Darling, exercise science, will learn
state-of-the-art techniques to study brain reorganization
associated with hand motor recovery following strokes;
use functional brain imaging to assess contributions
of intact brain motor regions to hand motor tasks
during recovery after stroke; and study new functional
connections between different brain regions and the
spinal cord after stroke using transcranial magnetic
stimulation.
Mary Depew, classics, will work on her book Myth,
Mimesis, and Innovation in Greek Hymn, and in 2005-06
submit it for publication.
Kathleen Diffley, English, will work on The
Fateful Lightning, the second volume in an ongoing trilogy,
assessing the magazine marketplace dynamics between
the fall of Fort Sumter in 1861 and the American
Centennial celebrations in 1876—during which
more than 300 Civil War stories circulated in popular
periodicals.
Lorraine T. Dorfman, social work, will develop a
proposal for an external grant to export the University’s “geriatric
enrichment in social work education” model
to other institutions in the state.
Armando Duarte, dance, will conduct fieldwork in
Brazil, collecting extensive materials related to
different forms of Brazilian music and dance.
James G. Enloe, anthropology, will examine patterns
of carcass exploitation, hunting seasonality, technology,
and social organization to explore the nature of
terminal Pleistocene cultural evolution.
Michael Flatté, physics and astronomy, will
develop new theories of electron spin coherence in
artificially structured semiconductors, including
the generation, transport, and detection of coherent
spins in semiconductor devices, and apply these theories
to propose possible physical realizations of quantum
computers based on the spin of nuclei or electrons.
Sukumar Ghosh, computer science, will investigate
sensor networks—which have opened up a new
world of applications in distributed monitoring and
control in civilian, military, and medical arenas—and
how to restore normal operation to networks when
sensor nodes fail.
Miriam Gilbert, English, will complete a series
of interrelated essays addressing issues of performance
criticism, analyzing both written and performance
texts and considering how choices by directors, actors,
and designers reveal and construct meaning and manipulate
audience response.
James B. Gloer, chemistry, will undertake an in-depth
evaluation of yet unexplored fungal niche groups
for their potential as anti-fungal agents and will
improve his research methods with new technologies.
J.A.W. Gratama, art and art history, will complete
the design and layout of a book honoring internationally
known Dutch entertainer and UNICEF ambassador Paul
van Vliet.
Paul Greenough, history, will complete a book-length
history of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a unit
in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that investigates
disease outbreaks.
Bruce E. Gronbeck, communication studies, will work
on a book on the history of visual communication
media (posters, photojournalism, film, television,
and digital technologies) in 20th-century American
politics.
Paul M. Heidger Jr., anatomy and cell biology, will
acquire expertise in multiphoton fluorescence microscopy
at the Children’s Medical Institute for Education
and Research, Northwestern University, which permits
high 3-D resolution of tissue structures in live
animals.
Alan B. Henkin, educational policy and leadership
studies, will write a book based on his and others’ research
on teacher trust and two related variables—empowerment
and commitment.
Cheryl Temple Herr, English and cinema and comparative
literature, will write a book showing that Irish
writer James Joyce’s views on the nature of
objects and conscious being fill a gap in the history
of 20th-century thought.
Herbert W. Hethcote, mathematics, will use mathematical
models and computer simulations to determine which
of three rubella vaccination policies in China would
be most effective in reducing the incidence of Congenital
Rubella Syndrome.
Randy Y. Hirokawa, communication studies and community
and behavioral health, will work on two books: Communication
and Group Decision-Making Effectiveness: A Functional
Perspective and Fiascoes: Case Studies of
Human Error in Group Decision-Making.
Rex Honey, geography, will write an informed political
geography of Nigeria that will address such topics
as how space is partitioned into governmental areas
and political economy.
Mark Janis, law, will study how the granting of
patents on plant biotechnology inventions affects
the pace of technological progress in the seed industry,
with a special emphasis on Iowa agriculture.
Jan H. Jensen, chemistry, will develop algorithms
that will allow a quantum mechanical description
of an entire protein, thus permitting computational
modeling of protein chemistry.
Alan Kim Johnson, psychology, will extend his novel
work on the role of the hindbrain in the control
of thirst and salt hunger in sheep.
Chuanren Ke, Asian languages and literature, will
write a book on the second-language acquisition of
Chinese.
Robert Latham, English, will study New Wave science
fiction of the 1960s and 1970s, a period of substantial
literary and ideological renovation.
Johannes Ledolter, management sciences, will focus
on how to apply linear programming methods to problems
in health care, specifically allocating operating
room resources among surgeons and surgical specialties.
Hosin Lee, civil and environmental engineering,
will write a textbook on the maintenance and rehabilitation
aspects of civil infrastructure.
Ching-Long Lin, mechanical and industrial engineering,
will investigate using a two-fluid microchannel system
for transport and manipulation of macromolecules.
Jean C. Love, law, is working on two casebooks:
one that condenses the law of torts into a short,
three-
unit course and another that teaches students how
to choose between federal and state courts and between
federal and state law.
Steven J. Luck, psychology, will complete The
Event-Related Potential Technique in Cognitive
Neuroscience, a “beginner’s
guide” to a main method of the burgeoning field
of cognitive neuroscience.
Teresa Mangum, English, will trace the history of
aging in novels, plays, magazines, and visual art
in her book The Victorian Invention of Old Age.
Scott F. McNabb, educational policy and leadership
studies, will conduct research in Thailand on the
current educational reform movement, specifically
the policy initiative to develop community colleges
in remote areas of the country.
Yannick Meurice, physics and astronomy, will develop
new computational tools—both new hardware and
new software—to implement and extend his theoretical
methods to models coupling several scalar fields
together or involving gauge bosons.
Dan Moore, music, will debut the updated MIDI (Musical
Instrument Digital Interface) Marimba at prominent
percussion venues around the country.
Jeffrey C. Murray, pediatrics, will conduct an international
study of vitamin deficiency and its relation to birth
defects.
Susan A. Murty, social work, will conduct research
with practitioners and families in the Mexican states
of Michuacan and Jalisco on cultural attitudes and
practices toward elders and those at the end of life.
Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Spanish and Portuguese,
will help analyze the language standardization process
in bilingual Paraguay and compare that process with
others taking place with indigenous languages elsewhere
in Latin America.
Astrid Oesmann, German, will examine how different
art movements in the first half of the 20th century
appropriated masks for their theatrical experiments
in moments of political and social crisis.
John D. Peters, communication studies, will write
a book that places recent revolutions in media and
communications into a longer historical horizon and
explores the history and relevance of electronic
media in the United States, England, France, and
Germany.
Mark Peterson, history, will write a book that re-envisions
the early history of Boston and explores the nature
of the Atlantic world of the early modern era.
Lauren Rabinovitz, American studies and cinema and
comparative literature, will work on a book that
rewrites film history within a cultural history of
American modernity and spectacle.
William M. Reisinger, political science, will extend
a unique dataset of political, economic, and social
variables covering all 89 of Russia’s constituent
regions; use the dataset to conduct analyses of regional
democratization; and complement the analyses with
case studies of four Russian regions, visiting each
region to gather materials and interview political
elites and activists.
Mary Reno, physics and astronomy, will investigate
neutrinos (electrically neutral elementary particles
with zero or near-zero mass), focusing on refining
theoretical predictions for neutrino interactions.
Raymond Riezman, economics, will investigate what
variables affect the degree and location of fragmented
production processes (e.g., why computer chips are
made in Taiwan but not in Vietnam), specifically
seeking to understand the role of services in the
fragmentation process.
Jerzy Rubach, linguistics, will study changes of
consonants occurring in the process of palatalization,
by conducting research on languages that have never
been investigated before from the perspective of
theoretical linguistics: Ukrainian, Kurpian, Lusatian,
and Slovene.
Gerard Rushton, geography, will field-test a computerized
spatial analysis system to find geographical patterns
in colorectal and breast cancer incidence and survival
rates in Iowa and two other states, and to identify
areas where control and prevention activities are
not succeeding.
Sara L. Rynes-Weller, management and organizations,
will investigate underlying mechanisms affecting
the success of attempts to exchange knowledge between
academics and practitioners in the field of management.
Janine Sawada, religious studies, will compare the
development of pilgrimage culture in Italy and Japan,
examining guidebooks and souvenir pictures that were
popular in Rome and Edo (Tokyo) just before these
cities became national capitals in the 19th century.
Leslie L. Schrier, curriculum and instruction, will
research how languages other than the commonly taught
European languages have influenced the overall secondary
curricula in selected Iowa schools.
T.M. Scruggs, music, will write a book on music
and its crucial role in reconfiguring a sense of
Nicaraguan nationalism in the last quarter of the
20th century.
Gary Segura, political science, will continue a
collaborative effort to conduct and analyze a national
survey of Latinos in the United States.
Ming-Che Shih, biological sciences, will use bioinformatic
tools to study the functional genomics of Arabidopsis,
a model plant amenable to genetic manipulation.
John-Mark Stensvaag, law, will explore legal and
policy choices made by federal and state governments
in implementing the Prevention of Significant Deterioration
(PSD) program, assessing how these choices relate
to the ideals motivating PSD program enactment.
Bonnie Sunstein, curriculum and instruction, will
complete a major study aimed at high school and college
teachers who teach writing across the curriculum
and wish to engage in action research, inquiry that
is school-based and driven by teachers’ knowledge.
Basil Thompson, dance, will reconstruct the choreography
and direction of the ballet Petrouchka for the Joffrey
Ballet of Chicago, resulting in a series of public
performances at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago
in October 2004.
Lisa Troyer, sociology, will investigate the adoption
by organizations of computer-mediated communication
technologies such as e-mail and computer conferencing.
Lea VanderVelde, law, will write a book about citizenship
and global labor migration that examines legal and
illegal migration and mobility; trafficking of people
across borders; various nations’ regulation
of entry, work, and residence of migrant workers;
and the future of the concept of unitary citizenship
in the face of demographic shift.
Shaun P. Vecera, psychology, will study how people “extract” likely
objects from complex visual scenes—focusing
on figure-ground assignment, which involves determining
which regions are foreground figures and which are
background.
Carolyn L. Wanat, educational policy and leadership
studies, will explore an aspect of parental involvement
in education: Schools erect barriers to involvement
of parents who do not share school values, but parents
themselves also use exclusionary tactics to discourage
involvement of parents who do not share the schools’ and
their personal values.
Bryon Winn, theatre arts, will serve as resident
designer for the Portland Stage Company in Maine
and continue his professional relationship with Trinity
Repertory Company in Providence, R.I.
Yangbo Ye, mathematics, will research automorphic
L-functions, whose behavior will give us new understanding
of integers and new relations between their additive
and multiplicative structures.
Mark Alan Young, chemistry, will integrate powerful
laser-based probe methodologies into an existing
experimental program that seeks to investigate various
aspects of chemical interactions involving particulate
species in the atmosphere and hydrosphere.
Patricia M. Zebrowski, speech pathology and audiology,
will continue data collection and analysis in a project
that examines risk factors related to stuttering
onset and development in children (e.g., motor skills,
temperament and personality, home environment).
Hantao Zhang, computer science, will design and
implement a next-generation constraint solver that
will build on the strengths of advanced search techniques
and be used for automated verification of formal
hardware designs with the goal of increasing the
reliability of hardware and software systems.
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