Five are named Faculty Scholars
Five University of Iowa faculty members have received 2003 Faculty Scholar Awards to pursue research. The awards give faculty members the opportunity for creative, extended, and concentrated work on their research.
Recipients are released from half of the usual obligation of teaching, advising, administration, and service for three consecutive years. Usually, the award applies to one semester of each of three years.
The recipients and research areas are:
Douglas Baynton, associate professor of history, will write a history of the concept of defective persons in the making of American immigration policy.
Teresa Mangum, associate professor of English, will be writing a book, The Victorian Invention of Old Age, which traces the history of contemporary perceptions of late life back to 19th-century novels, plays, magazines, medical writing, cartoons, advertising, and visual art.
Yannick Meurice, associate professor of physics and astronomy, will use a cluster of computers to apply his recently developed theoretical methods to problems related to the origin of the mass of elementary particles and the density of the early universe.
Mary Hall Reno, professor of physics and astronomy, will develop and refine theoretical predictions for the production, interaction, and detection of neutrinos, particles that play a role in our understanding of the cosmos and the theory of elementary particles.
Gary Segura, associate professor of political science, is working with a team to develop and implement a national political survey of Latinos. The survey, the first of its kind in more than a decade, will explore a wide range of attitudes, behaviors, and orientations among immigrant, first, and second generation Latinos in the United States.