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Four LAS Faculty Named University Scholars
Four faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were selected by UI to be among the 10 University Scholars for 2000-2001. The program recognizes excellence while helping identify and retain the university's most talented teachers, scholars, and researchers. Recipients receive $10,000, which they can use for travel, equipment, research assistants, books, or other purposes.
The scholars from LAS are the following:
Ulf Boeckenholt, psychology, is one of the nation's most productive and original quantitative psychologists. His goal is to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of choice behavior. Last year, he was appointed editor of Psychometrika, the oldest and most prestigious journal in quantitative psychology.
Susan Fahrbach, entomology, and her colleagues have identified neural and hormonal inputs regulating the fate of neurons in adult moths and have characterized the intercellular signals initiating the degradation of neurons.
Sergei Ivanov, mathematics, is a nationally recognized expert in the theory of groups, particularly the theory of infinite groups. He is attacking one of the most difficult problems in infinite group theory, the structure of periodic groups.
Mark D. Steinberg, history, has produced a remarkable quantity of research on Russia, including the most popular current edited volume on the lives and deaths of the Romanovs. His election to the St. Petersburg Academy for the Humanities is evidence of his worldwide reputation.
Winter 2001