HANS BLASCHEK
Prof. Hans Blaschek, Food Microbiology in the Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition; Blaschek is a nationally recognized research scientist in food microbiology; he works on fermentation processes and has support from several industry and federal granting agencies including NIH. He has, for example, been refining his discovery of a microb that significantly increases the production of butonal from such feed stocks as byproducts of the corn milling industry. He has received several awards, served on a number of review panels and is repeatedly elected to the ACES Executive Committee. He teaches both graduate and undergrad courses and is a highly respected faculty leader in FSHN and ACES.
JOSEPH STUCKI
Education: B.S., Chemistry, Brigham Young University, 1970
M.S., Soil Chemistry, Utah State University, 1972
Ph.D., Soil Physical Chemistry, Purdue University, 1975
UI experience: Successively Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Soil Physical Chemistry
(in Agronomy Dept. 1976-1995; in NRES 1995-present)
Funding: Received research grants from DOD, EPA, NSF, NATO, C-FAR, Academy of Applied Sciences, UIUC Campus Research Board, and the George A. Miller Endowment.
Recent Honors: Elected President of the Clay Minerals Society; Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Soil Science Award, Soil Science Society of America; Fellow, American Society of Agronomy
GENE E. ROBINSON
PhD, 1986, Cornell University. Professor Robinson uses the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, to understand the mechanisms governing social behavior. Most research is focused on one aspect of colony organization, the division of labor among workers, and the process of worker behavioral development that underlies it. Among their current interests are: 1) Social and pheromonal regulation of endocrine-mediated maturation and division of labor; 2) Changes in honey bee brain structure associated with behavioral maturation and division of labor (with the laboratory of Dr. Susan Fahrbach); 3) Changes in honey bee brain chemistry associated with behavioral development and division of labor (especially biogenic amines); 4) Learning and memory in relation to division of labor in honey bees; and 5) Sociogenomics: Genes influencing behavioral maturation and division of labor in honey bees.
ROBERT L. SWITZER
Professor of Biochemistry; Professor of Basic Medical Sciences; B.S. 1961 Univ. of Illinois, U-C; Ph.D. 1966 Univ. of California, Berkeley; Postdoc. 1966-68 National Institutes of Health. Research areas: Regulation of bacterial gene expression by transcriptional attenuation; regulation and mechanisms of enzymes of nucleotide biosynthesis. Our research program studies the regulation of metabolism as exemplified by the control of biosynthetic enzymes during bacterial growth and differentiation. A second research theme is the study of the active sites, mechanism of catalysis and of allosteric regulation of enzymes of nucleotide biosynthesis. A current focal point is the regulation of transcription of the ten-cistron pyrimidine biosynthetic (pyr) operon in Bacillus subtilis, which we have shown to be governed by the protein, called PyrR, encoded by the first gene of the operon. This protein, which also catalyzes uracil phosphoribosyltransferase activity, has been shown to promote transcriptional termination at three attenuation sites in the pyr operon. PyrR has been shown to act by binding in a uridine nucleotide dependent manner to specific sites on pyr mRNA and altering its conformation, so that a transcription terminator is formed. The PyrR protein has been purified to homogeneity and its 3D structure has been determined. Our current objectives are to characterize the PyrR protein, the RNA to which it binds, and the PyrR-RNA interaction at high resolution.
GORDON J. BAKER
Gordon Baker is a Professor of Equine Medicine and Surgery, Assistant Department Head of Veterinary Clinical Medicine and Chief of Staff of the Large Animal Clinic. He joined the University of Illinois Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Medicine in 1981. Dr. Baker graduated from the University of Bristol, England, in 1962, and, following two years of general veterinary practice, spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1965 until 1969, he taught veterinary surgery at the Royal Veterinary College, London, and from 1969 to 1981 he was a Senior Lecturer and Reader in Veterinary Surgery at the University of Glasgow. He spent a sabbatical year at Michigan State University in equine surgery in 1979-1980. Dr. Baker has served on numerous departmental, college, and university committees, including Promotions and Tenure (department and college), Advisory (department), and Executive (college). He has returned to the UIUC Senate after a brief self-imposed hiatus, and he has served on the Senate Committees on General University Policy, Academic Freedom and Tenure (Chair, 1992-93), and the University Senates Conference (1996-1999). Dr. Baker also served two terms on the Faculty Advisory Committee, and he was the 1993-94 committee chair.
RICHARD ISAACSON
Education: B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1969
M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974
UI experience: Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine (1989- ).
Research support: USDA, Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research, National Pork Producers Council, Johnson and Johnson, and the National Science Foundation.
CHARLES MILLER
Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Professor of Microbiology. A.B. (Chemistry), Indiana University, Bloomington, 1963; Ph.D. (Biochemistry), Northwestern University, Evanston, 1968; Postdoc. (Genetics), University of California, Berkeley, 1968-1970. Assistant Professor-Professor, Case Western Reserve University, 1970-1990. Research areas: Mechanisms of intracellular protein breakdown and proteolytic modification; anaerobic regulation of gene expression.
WILLIAM F. BREWER
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Iowa. Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Psychology. Primary areas of interest: Cognitive psychology; knowledge representation and acquisition; psycholinguistics; history of psychology, language, and thought; human memory; reading; discourse. Professor Brewer is a basic researcher who enjoys moving ideas across traditional discipline boundaries. His work in the field of cognitive science uses methodology and theory typically associated with cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence, with additional borrowing from philosophy, neuroscience, anthropology, and education. The theory he developed about how stories are structured to produce various responses has been supported with data gathered from a wide variety of subjects and exposes shortcomings in several cognitive science approaches to narrative. His research on memory has explored the ways knowledge distorts recall and the nature of autobiographical memory; and he has contributed to developing theories of how knowledge is represented in the mind through his studies of schemas, scripts, mental models, plans, and other forms of representation.
RICHARD MERRITT
Ph.D., International Relations, Yale University. Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Political Science. Primary areas of interest: International and comparative politics; international communications systems and processes; public opinion; postwar German politics; quantitative methodologies. A communications course developed by Professor Merritt, "International Political Communication," follows his own overall approach to the field. After laying a theoretical foundation that emphasizes social-psychological findings on human communication, the course explores four areas: governments communicating with governments, governments seeking information from governments, governments communicating with foreign publics, and people communicating with people overseas. Merritt's research is characterized by a broad range of topics, heavy reliance on quantitative data and mathematical forms of analysis, and, to the extent it has a regional focus, attention to Germany after 1945. He has published widely in edited volumes and scholarly journals and has written books about German public attitudes on international issues, the integrative process among groups within and across national boundaries, and international scientific activities.
VINCENT BELLAFIORE
Education: B.A., Landscape Architecture, University of Georgia, 1966
M.A., Landscape Architecture, University of Georgia, 1968
UI experience: Professor and Head, Department of Landscape Architecture (1985- )
Recent Honors: Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects
President's Award, American Society of Landscape Architects
Outstanding Educator Award, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
ROBERT GRAVES
Education: A.B., English, University of Washington, 1968
M.A., Theater, Northwestern University, 1971
Ph.D., Theater, Northwestern University, 1976
UI experience: Assistant Professor (1977-1982); Associate Professor (1982-present), Department of Theater
Recent Honors: Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Award for Translation
College of FAA Research Grant
Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award
LEWIS HOPKINS
B.A., Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1968; M.R.P., Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 1970; Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 1975. Successively Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Landscape Architecture (Professor and Head, Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning). Funding: Received research grants from CERL, IBM, IDOT, Illinois Department of Conservation, NSF, and the UIUC Graduate College Research Board.
MARIANNE KALINKE
Ph.D., Indiana University. Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature. Research interests: Medieval German and Scandinavian literature, Arthurian romance, Old Norse-Icelandic, medieval studies.
JOHN LYNN
Professor Lynn received his doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1973. Professor Lynn specializes in military institutions and warfare in France, 1610-1815, and also has a teaching field in South Asian warfare. His current research focuses on war and culture world-wide. Selected publications include The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714 (Longman, 1999), Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610-1715_ (Cambridge University Press, 1997), The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791-94, corrected edition (Westview Press. 1996), and "How War Fed War: The Tax of Violence and Contributions during the Grand Siecle," Journal of Modern History, 65, 2 (June 1993) 286-310.
GARY PORTON
Gary G. Porton is Professor of religious studies, history, and comparative literature at the University of Illinois. His major research interests include "the other" in Judaism, rabbinic ideas of the gentile, conversion in Judaism in late antiquity, Jewish biblical exegesis, literary studies of rabbinic literature, the feminine in rabbinic literature, American liberal Judaism. He teaches courses in the history of Judaism, religious responses to the Holocaust, American Judaism, Judaism in late antiquity, Jewish customs and ceremonies, and Jewish sacred literature.
DOUGLAS A. KIBBEE
PhD 1979 Indiana University, Bloomington, French Linguistics; Thesis: The Establishment of the French Grammatical Tradition, 1530-1580. Certificate in Medieval studies 1978 Indiana University; MA 1975 Indiana University, French Literature; BA 1971 Colgate University, Hamilton NY, Major: French Literature, Minor: Anthropology. Major Research Areas: History of the French Language; Lexicography; Politics of Language; History of Linguistics; Networked Resources for the Teaching of French; Theory and Practice of Translation.
GERRIT KNAAP
Gerrit J. Knaap is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Knaap earned his B.S. from Willamette University, his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, all in economics. Knaap's research interests include the economics and politics of land use planning, the efficacy of economic development instruments, and the implementation of environmental policy. He received the Chester Rapkin award for the best paper published in volume 10 of the Journal of Planning Education and Research. Funding for his research, in excess of $3.5 million, has been provided by the National Science Foundation, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and numerous state and local government agencies. Knaap is the coauthor or coeditor of three books: The Regulated Landscape: Lessons on State Land Use Planning from Oregon, Spatial Development in Indonesia: Review and Prospects, and Environmental Program Evaluation: A Primer. He serves on the board of directors of the Lake Michigan Federation and on the Urbana Planning Commission.
RICHARD MARTIN
1966-69 Ph.D., Physics, University of Chicago; 1964-66 S.M., Physics, University of Chicago; 1961-64 S.B., Engineering Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1987- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Physics; 1971-87 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA., Principal Scientist. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1964-68; Member of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi Fellow, American Physical Society; Member, National Research Council Panel for "Physics in the 1990's: Condensed Matter Physics" Elected Member, Executive Committee, Div. of Condensed Matter Physics, Am. Phys. Soc., 1994-97; Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award, 1994; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Associate Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics for area of Condensed Matter Theory, 1997-Present.
DALE VAN HARLINGEN
Ph.D. Physics The Ohio State University 1977; B.S. Physics The Ohio State University 1972. Professional Registrations: American Physical Society Member 1975-; American Physical Society, Fellow (1996). NSF National Needs Postdoctoral Fellowship (1978-79); NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (1977-78); Center for Advanced Study (1983-84, 1993-94 ); Xerox Award for Faculty Research (1991); Fellow, American Physical Society (1996); Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics (1998).
JAY BASS
Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1982. Professor: Geophysics, Mineral Physics, Mineralogy, Ceramic Engineering. My research interests may be broadly described as in the area of mineral physics, with the focus of my current research as the elastic properties of solids and fluids which are relevant to the composition of Earth's interior, and those which are of interest in ceramic engineering. Some recent work involves elastic wave velocity measurements in minerals, melts, ceramics, and high pressure phases using Brillouin spectroscopy. This is a laser light scattering technique that allows velocities and elastic properties to be measured on microscopic-sized samples. Experiments can be performed at high temperatures to 1600°C, and at high pressures using a diamond anvil cell, thereby allowing deep Earth conditions to be simulated in the lab.
PAUL BOHN
Head of the Department of Chemistry. Professor Bohn received his B.S. from the University of Notre Dame in 1977 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. He joined the faculty at Illinois in 1983 and is now Head of the Department of Chemistry. Professor Bohn received the Coblentz Award in 1990 and the ACS Spectrochemical Analysis Award in 1997. His research interests are in materials and analytical chemistry.
VERN SNOEYINK
Professor Snoeyink attained all of his degrees from the University of Michigan. In 1964 he received his B.S. in Civil Engineering, his M.S. in Sanitary Engineering in 1966, and his Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering in 1968. Dr. Snoeyink joined the staff of the University of Illinois in 1973 as an Assistant Professor of Sanitary Engineering. In 1973 he became an Associate Professor of Sanitary Engineering. He is presently a Full Professor of Environmental Engineering, the Coordinator of the Enviromental Engineering & Science Program and an Ivan Racheff Professor of Enviromental Engineering.