The Office of the
Provost has selected six faculty members to receive
Faculty Scholar Awards and one to receive a Global
Scholar Award.
Global Scholars are released from half their
usual year of teaching, advising, administrative,
and
service obligations for two consecutive academic
years. Typically, the award takes the form of a
Career Development Award for one semester each
year, part of which is spent in at least one foreign
country.
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Vicki
Hesli
Photos by Tom Jorgensen |
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Vicki Hesli, professor
of political science, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences,
is this year’s Global Scholar Award
recipient. Hesli will investigate the
formation, development, and institutionalization
of political opposition of Central Asian
states—an area beset with civil
wars and international military interventions.
Faculty Scholar Awards give leading
scholars the opportunity for creative,
extended,
and concentrated work on their research. Recipients are released from half
of the usual obligations of teaching,
advising, and service for three consecutive
years. Typically, the award takes the form of a Career Development Award for
one semester of each of three years. The 2005 recipients come from mathematics,
art and art history, physics and astronomy, history, and geoscience. |
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| Frauke
Bleher |
Frauke Bleher, associate professor of
mathematics, College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences, will study applications
of a new deformation theory that Bleher
helped develop. Deformation theory studies
the behavior of mathematical objects
under small perturbations.
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| Robert
Bork |
Robert Bork, associate professor of art
and art history, College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences, will study the geometry
of Gothic architectural drawings, the
oldest surviving “blueprints” in
history. Bork’s research combines
scrutiny of original medieval drawings
with computer-aided analysis of their
proportions to show how medieval designers
using simple tools developed sophisticated
building plans. |
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| Julie Berger Hochstrasser |
Julie Berger Hochstrasser, associate
professor of art and art history, College
of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, will explore the visual
arts generated by the Dutch and those
with whom they traded. Hochstrasser will
study both sides of these exchanges to
forge new ways of thinking about global
visual culture from the early modern
period to today. |
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| Philip Kaaret |
Philip Kaaret, associate professor of
physics and astronomy, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, will conduct new observations
of black holes to measure the mass of
intensely bright X-ray sources in other
galaxies, which may represent a new class
of black hole, with masses intermediate
between the two known classes, supermassive
and stellar-mass.
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| Paula
Michaels (not pictured), associate
professor of history, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, will trace the story
of psychoprophylaxis, known in the United
States as the Lamaze method. She will
study political issues surrounding Lamaze
in the Cold War context of this technique’s
transfer across the Iron Curtain. |
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| Mark Reagan |
Mark Reagan, associate professor of geoscience,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
will study how explosive lavas are generated
in volcanic arcs. He will research rhyolites,
the Earth’s most explosive lavas;
the fluxes of water and other materials
from subducting oceanic plates to sources
of basalts in volcanic arcs; and the
timing of magma degassing during volcanic
eruptions. |
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