Regents approve 2007/08 sabbaticals
The following faculty members have been approved for sabbatical leaves for the 2007-08 academic year. The Kansas Board of Regents approved the leaves. They are listed below by semester or academic year, topic and location.
- Christopher Anderson, business, fall semester, conduct empirical research on capital markets and progress six projects toward submission, Lawrence.
- Robert Antonio, sociology, academic year, investigate and map the direction of the contemporary scholarly and policy debates about globalization after Sept. 11, Houston.
- Paul Atchley, psychology, fall semester, conduct research on the relationship between memory, dual-task performance, and attention to improve knowledge of memory research, Wellington, New Zealand.
- Ruth Ann Atchley, psychology, fall semester, conduct research and collaborate with colleagues in Canada on how language is lateralized in the cerebral hemispheres, Montreal and Edmonton, Canada.
- Victor Bailey, history/Hall Center for the Humanities, fall semester, write the final two sections of a book on the rise and demise of rehabilitation focusing on punishment, culture and society in modern Britain, Lawrence.
- Philip Baringer, physics and astronomy, fall semester, conduct research on particle detector operation and data analysis and learn about the other detector subsystems, simulation and data reconstruction software, Geneva, Switzerland; Chicago.
- Steven Barlow, speech, language and hearing, spring semester, conduct research on the medical physics, hardware technologies and digital signal processing methods associated with diffusion tensor imaging and tractography of the developing brain in preterm infants, San Francisco, Atlanta, Lawrence.
- Monica Biernat, psychology, spring semester, conduct research on how stereotyping in language, communication and social interaction justifies negative behavior toward members of social outgroups, Seattle.
- Richard Branham, design, fall semester, write a book on interaction design and travel to Taiwan to teach and seek evaluation of the book content from an Asian point of view, Taiwan, Lawrence.
- Karl Brooks, history/environmental studies, fall semester, complete book titled, "Rising Wind: A History of American Environmental Law, 1945-1980" and submit first manuscript to the publisher, Lawrence.
- J. Christopher Brown, geography/environmental studies, spring semester, conduct research integrating remote sensing and socio-economic and cultural studies to understand the human and environmental dynamics involved in the expansion of land use in the Amazon forests, Lawrence.
- Edward Canda, social welfare, fall semester, conduct research for three articles on developing global perspective on spiritual diversity in social work, Republic of Korea; Lawrence.
- Maria Carlson, Slavic languages and literatures, academic year, conduct research and complete two, possibly four, articles on post-Soviet intellectual phenomenon and Russian neo-paganism, Washington, D.C.; Lawrence.
- David Cateforis, art history, fall semester, conduct research and write a major scholarly article on the well-known United Nations series of the internationally prominent Chinese artist Wenda Gu, Lawrence.
- Paul Comolli, economics, fall semester, revise final draft of a textbook in managerial economics and prepare ancillary materials that support the text, Lawrence.
- Chris Crandall, psychology, spring semester, interact with colleagues at the University of Washington, Seattle, to complete two scholarly projects on prejudice, social change and political ideology, Seattle.
- Martin Dickinson, law, fall semester, conduct research to identify appropriate and up-to-date materials in both legal and nonlegal sources to restructure the law school's estate planning curriculum, Lawrence.
- Cynthia Colwell Dunn, music and dance, fall semester, conduct research and develop treatment protocols using children's literature in Orff-Schulwerk for musical and nonmusical outcomes, Rochester, N.Y.; Fort Collins, Colo.; Lawrence.
- Howard Ebmeier, educational leadership and policy studies, fall semester, take classwork through the university to gain sufficient knowledge in the use of hierarchical linear modeling and server data base designs to advise graduate students in their use.
- Saeed Farokhi, aerospace engineering/graduate school, fall semester, write a graduate level textbook on advanced aircraft concepts from takeoff to orbit, Lawrence.
- Ken Fischer, mechanical engineering, fall semester, conduct research on functional loading in magnetic resonance imaging for joint and cartilage stress analysis, Salzburg, Austria.
- John Gauch, electrical engineering and computer science, academic year, conduct research on techniques to compare videos by their intrinsic internal features so they can be applied to much larger and longer video collections, Dublin, Ireland.
- Susan Gauch, electrical engineering and computer science, academic year, conduct research on applying and adapting personalization techniques to searching archives of video collections rather than Web documents, Dublin, Ireland.
- Elaine Gerbert, East Asian languages and cultures, spring semester, conduct research on the impact of vision technology on literary imagination by focusing on the thematization of vision in Japanese literature in the 1910s and 1920s, Lawrence.
- Rich Givens, chemistry, spring semester, publish one work and complete another on photoremovable protecting groups with the goal of renewing current NIH support, Madison, Wis.; Europe; Lawrence.
- Stephen Goddard, art history/Spencer Museum of Art, Aug. 12, 2007 – Jan. 12, 2008, conduct research and organize catalog essay for a major exhibition and catalog treating the first World War as it is revealed through prints and drawings, Miami Beach, Fla.; Lawrence; European travel.
- Erik Herron, political science, spring semester, complete research and text of book entitled, "Everyone to the Polls: Elections and Democracy After Communism," which is the first of its kind to address elections in post-Soviet states, Moscow, Lawrence.
- Caroline Jewers, French and Italian, spring semester, complete full draft of book project that analyzes the portrayal and dramatization of emotions in the major literary genres of medieval France during the High Middle Ages, London, Paris.
- Paul Kelton, history, fall semester, write a manuscript addressing one of the most important questions in world history: How did Europeans manage to take a large portion of the globe away from indigenous peoples?, Lawrence.
- Marni Kessler, art history, spring semester, conduct research and draft two chapters of a book-in-progress that focuses on the intersection of art history, trauma and memory studies and the history of medicine, Washington, D.C.; Lawrence.
- Jeanne Klein, theatre and film, academic year, complete writing a cross-disciplinary book that explains how children formulate social, moral and aesthetic judgments about dramatized stories in media, Lawrence.
- Jill Kuhnheim, Spanish and Portuguese, fall semester, conduct research for a book exploring the tradition of the public performance of poetry, the recitation of poetry in schools and other practices that took poetry beyond the page, Lawrence.
- Paul Laird, music and dance, spring semester, conduct research for book titled "Beyond Songwriting: Stephen Schwartz and the Collaborative Musical Theater," New York, N.Y.; Lawrence.
- James Lichtenberg, psychology and research in education, fall semester, conduct research on the methods of argument analysis as an approach to the study of influence and attitude change in therapy, Lawrence.
- Satyagopal Mandal, mathematics, spring semester, conduct research on the application of the Euler Class Theory to Algebraic Number Theory and $K-$Theory, Mumbai, India; Chicago.
- Donald Marquis, philosophy, academic year, write a book on the ethics of abortion focusing on the criticisms of and alternatives to abortion, Princeton, N.J.
- Edward Morris, applied behavorial sciences, spring semester, conduct research and develop several manuscripts in the historical foundations, globalization and conceptual advances in behavior analysis, Lawrence.
- Maria Orive, ecology and evolutionary biology, academic year, conduct research on the development of a theoretical modeling framework for investigating host-symbiont genome evolution, Harvard University, Bloomington, Ind.
- James Orr, molecular biosciences, fall semester, build diversity in science training by visiting community colleges with large minority enrollments and recruit students trained in the sciences, San Diego, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.; Lawrence.
- Allan Pasco, French and Italian, fall semester, complete topology of the short story that examines the devices, strategies, qualities and dominant features that give short stories their vitality and definition, Paris, Lawrence.
- David Petr, electrical engineering and computer science, fall semester, conduct research on the visual representation of music and/or the elements of music from audio input, Lawrence.
- Clifton Pye, linguistics, academic year, conduct research and document the acquisition process in three Mayan languages to establish a linguistic infrastructure for recording and transcribing samples of children's language, Guatemala, Mexico; the Netherlands.
- Gary Reich, political science, spring semester, conduct research for a book-length manuscript examining how socioeconomic inequality, state power, ethnic tension and violence contextualize religious politics in Brazil, Brazil; Lawrence.
- Timothy Shaftel, business, spring semester, conduct research aimed at identifying the impact of international study as a component of a program designed for postsecondary students in business, journalism and communication studies, Italy; Lawrence.
- James Shortridge, geography, spring semester, complete book project that concentrates on the construction of a particular urban landscape including how residents and outsiders have evaluated its ongoing pattern, Lawrence.
- Lin Stanionis, design, fall semester, conduct research on jade culture and techniques of jade carving that would have applications for jewelry design, China.
- Ric Steele, psychology/applied behavioral sciences, fall semester, develop a publication version of a clinical treatment manual of Positively Fit, a behaviorally based treatment for youth with obesity and their families, Philadelphia, Lawrence.
- Daniel Stocklie, geology, fall semester, conduct research on noble gas geochemistry and mineralogical/geochemical in-situ microanalyses, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Ann Turnbull, special education/Life Span Institute, fall semester, development and implementation of a "State of Science Conference and Proceedings" on early childhood supports and services for families, Lawrence.
- May Tveit, design, spring semester, conduct research and create a new body of work on the visual and conceptual investigation of the language in globalization, Kansas City, Mo.
- Michael Wehmeyer, special education/Life Span Institute, spring semester, conduct research on self-determination, causal agency theory and positive psychology and develop a proposal for NIH to test causal agency, Lawrence.
- Judy Wu, physics and astronomy, fall semester, conduct research on the cross disciplines nanoscience and biophysics and develop a new research thrust in nano-bioscience, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Charlottesville, Va.; Berkeley, Calif.; Lawrence.
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