January 28, 1999

Of note

Stuart Banner, J.D., professor of law, was appointed a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for his proposed research project on the history of the death penalty in the United States. ...

An article by Pauline Kim, J.D., associate professor of law, on "Norms, Learning and Law: Exploring the Influences on Workers' Legal Knowledge," was selected for honorable mention in the Association of American Law Schools Call for Scholarly Papers. The article will appear in the University of Illinois Law Review in spring 1999. Kim recently presented the paper at the eighth annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association held at the University of California-Berkeley. ...

Thalachallour Mohanakumar, Ph.D., the Jacqueline and William Maritz Professor of surgery and professor of medicine and of pathology, has received a one-year $173,854 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International for a project titled "JDF Human Islet Distribution Program DRTC of Washington University." ...

Jean E. Schaffer, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and of molecular biology and pharmacology, has received a three-year $509,025 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project titled "Molecular Basis of Long Chain Fatty Acid Transport." ...

Clay F. Semenkovich, M.D., associate professor of cell biology and physiology and of medicine, has received a four-year $824,931 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases for a project titled "Intermediary Metabolism and a Novel RNA Binding Protein."

On assignment

Frances H. Foster, J.D., J.S.D., professor of law, recently appeared on two Russian law panels at the national convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held in Boca Raton, Fla. She chaired the panel on "Reviewing Judicial and Jury Practice in Russia: The Supreme Court and the Legal Profession" and presented a comparative analysis of recent trends in Russian and Chinese law on the panel on "Recent Developments in the Russian Legal System."

Speaking of

Phillip L. Gould, Ph.D., the Harold D. Jolley Professor of civil engineering, and Srinivasan Sridharan, Ph.D., professor of civil engineering, were recently invited for a five-day visit to the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo. Gould gave a lecture on "Local-Global Methodology for Nonlinear Analysis of Shells of Revolution," while Sridharan spoke on "Interaction of Local and Overall Buckling in Stiffened Plates and Shells." In addition to speaking at IIS, the two lectured at the National Symposium on Shell and Spatial Structures held in Nagoya. The visit was part of an exchange program between Washington University and IIS.

To press

Andy Clark, Ph.D., professor of philosophy and director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Program in Arts and Sciences, explored the role of temporal coordination between neural and bodily processes in an article titled "Time and Mind" in the July 1998 issue of the Journal of Philosophy. Clark describes the article as part of a "rather in-house debate" within cognitive science about the right framework for understanding cognition: computation (atemporal) versus dynamics (time-rich). ...

William Lowry, Ph.D., associate professor of political science in Arts and Sciences, published an article on "Public Provision of Intergenerational Goods: The Case of Preserved Lands" in the October 1998 issue of the American Journal of Political Science. In a study of 100 nations, Lowry found that the amount and quality of public lands, natural resources and other public goods preserved by a nation is closely related to the visibility of supportive advocacy coalitions and the durability of a centrally located public agency responsible for such preservation. ...

Steven N. Zwicker, Ph.D., professor of English in Arts and Sciences and co-director of the Program in Literature and History, edited two books that recently have been published: "The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740" by Cambridge University Press, and "Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution" by the University of California Press.

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