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Siva Balasubramanian, the Henry J. Rehn Professor of Marketing in the College of Business and Administration, has been awarded a research chair appointment through the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program. He will hold the position in spring 2006 at the University of Alberta at Edmonton's School of Business, where he will do research with Canadian colleagues and help them develop expertise in marketing strategy. Although SIUC has had dozens of Fulbright scholars over the years, Balasubramanian is the first SIUC faculty member ever named a Fulbright research chair. Haibo Wang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has won a $400,000 award from the National Science Foundation's CAREER Program, the fifth SIUC faculty member in recent years to receive the prestigious award. The NSF grant will support Wang's work on developing mixed-signal computer chips (those that can read both digital and analog signals) that can figure out on their own if they are damaged and then repair themselves. A self-repairing chip would be especially useful in places where routine maintenance is difficult, such as in space or on battlefields. The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant to assistant professor of chemistry Qingfeng Ge for research into hydrogen storage. Ge's work, based on computer models, is designed to find a material that can carry hydrogen that is inexpensive, has maximum capacity, is highly efficient, and is easy to use. The DOE's goal is to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and refueling stations "available, practical, and affordable for American consumers by 2020." Associate professor of zoology Karen Lips was among a select group of 20 North American environmentalists chosen to receive a 2005 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship. An expert on amphibian declines in Latin America, Lips is known internationally for helping to detect a previously unknown fungus that appears to play a part in population crashes of some frog species. Boyd Goodson, an assistant professor of chemistry, was recently named one of only 13 Cottrell Scholars nationwide for 2005. The $100,000 awards, made by Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of science, are given to faculty expected to make significant fundamental advances in science. Goodson's research involves techniques to improve studies of molecular structure and dynamics in thin-film materials. Kounosuke Watabe, a professor of medical microbiology, immunology, and cell biology at the SIU School of Medicine in Springfield, was awarded a three-year, $425,887 grant from the U.S. Army to study a gene that blocks the spread of breast cancer cells in the body. The research will look at how these cells spread from the primary tumor to distant organs and may lead to new treatments for the metastasis of breast cancer. Two faculty members received prestigious stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support their work on book projects. Jyotsna Kapur, an assistant professor of cinema and photography, is working on a book looking at how globalization is affecting child labor in India. Kevin Dettmar, a professor of English, is writing about the use of irony in public communication in Britain and the United States over the past century and a half. --by Marilyn Davis, ed. [home] [fall 05] [topics] [back issues] [contact us] [locate researchers] [SIUC home] Comments: Perspectives Webmaster
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