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Letter From the Dean - August 2001
Dear Colleagues, TWO IU PROJECTS RECEIVE AWARDS FROM NEW FEDERAL RESEARCH PROGRAMThe U.S. Department of Energy has announced its first awards under the new Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program. Two of the 51 inaugural projects involve Indiana University's Computer Science Department in high-performance computing and integrated software development.Dennis Gannon, Chair of Computer Science, and Randall Bramley, Associate Professor of Computer Science, will lead a project to create grid science portals that allow scientists and engineers to access and control remote resources and computations from their desktop machines in much the same way as when we use the World Wide Web to access banking and airline reservation systems. This project will help scientists who use computational grids in their research, but the benefits are general and will apply to many kinds of computing applications. IU is involved in a second SciDAC project to develop the Center for Component Technology for Terascale Simulation Software. Other institutions involved are Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the universities of Tennessee, Maryland, Illinois and California-San Diego. RICH SHIFFRIN, RECIPIENT OF GLUSHKO-SAMUELSON FOUNDATION, COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY RUMELHARTDepartment of Psychology's Distinguished Professor Rich Shiffrin has been selected as the second recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize, awarded annually for an outstanding contribution to the formal analysis of human cognition by the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation and the Cognitive Science Society.Shiffrin has made many contributions to the modeling of human cognition in areas ranging from perception to attention to learning, but is best known for his long-standing efforts to develop explicit models of human memory. ROSEMARY LLOYD AWARDED A LITT. D. BY UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGERosemary Lloyd, Rudy Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian has been awarded a doctor of letters (Litt. D.) by the University of Cambridge, England. This degree is an advanced degree awarded on the basis of peer review of publications beyond the Ph.D.AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM RECEIVES GRANT FROM COMPTON FOUNDATIONThe African Studies Program, under the directorship of John Hanson, Professor of History, has been awarded a grant from the Compton Foundation, Inc., to support nine Compton Peace Fellows during the next three years (June, 2001-May, 2004). The goal of the Compton Peace Fellow program is to provide African Ph.D. candidates the opportunity to study at US universities with funds to support their dissertation field research in Africa on topics related to peace, population, and the environment.SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT HONORED FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE BY AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONThe Department of Sociology has been selected for the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association -- an honor usually given to individuals.The ASA recognized the department, which was recently ranked 11th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, for its excellence in training graduate students to become teachers. The department has produced many quality graduates who have gone on to faculty positions at prestigious universities and colleges throughout North America. ANN PYBURN RECEIVES NSF GRANT THROUGH THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGYAnn Pyburn of Anthropology has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation by way of the Society for American Archaeology, to develop a new national undergraduate curriculum for the study of Archaeology. Some 30 people, including academics, professionals and government officials, from across the United States will participate in the project. The first meeting of the working group will be here in Bloomington in November.JEFF VEIDLINGER OF HISTORY WINS AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THEATRE RESEARCH AWARDThe American Society of Theatre Research has selected The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, authored by Jeff Veidlinger of our History department for the 2001 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History and Cognate Studies.NEW COLLEGE APPOINTMENTSI would like to announce several new departmental chair appointments:
The following chairs have accepted reappointments:
Ray Hedin has agreed to stay on as Director of the Individualized Major Program and new faculty member Daniel Reed in Folklore has been appointed Director of the Archives of Traditional Music. During the coming year, the following departments will be lead by Acting Chairs:
I am pleased to announce the following changes in the College office: Lynn Di Pietro has joined our Graduate office to increase support for International Students; Amanda Ciccarelli has accepted the role of Special Projects Assistant; Michele Neary has been promoted from Grad Pact Coordinator to Director of Student Services in the College; and Paul Aarstad is the new advisor in the College. Best wishes, Swamy [Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Dean College of Arts and Sciences] |
