Andrew Kusiak, industrial engineering, will conduct research in collaboration with national and international medical groups to develop prediction models and algorithms for medical applications based on the theory of rough sets. Irwin P. Levin, psychology, will refine ideas for new research based on work in his laboratory that has helped develop tasks and measurement instruments for understanding decision processes at the level of the individual decision maker. Bor-Luh Lin, mathematics, will study geometric properties of infinite dimensional Banach spaces related to the extreme structure of the unit ball of the space and the unit ball of its dual space. Michael Lovaglia, sociology, will explain and test differences in mental ability test scores between African Americans and European Americans, investigating sources of stress that may impair academic ability. Waltraud Maierhofer, German, will write three chapters of a book on Women and War that analyzes the depiction of women in German literary texts of the Thirty Years' War from the 17th century to the present, and studies their representation of women.
Theta correspondences are a modern interpretation of certain classical problems in number theory.
Bunny Allen McBride, art and art history, will continue work on ceramic art pieces that combine ash glaze mixes and textural experiments on large wall hangings and free standing forms. Maurita Mead, music, will continue study with professional choro players and teachers in Brazil. Choro is a type of jazz composition that originated around the turn of the century in Rio de Janeiro. Virginia A. Myers, art and art history, will complete her book, Creating Original Fine Art with Hot Stamped Foil and the Iowa Foil Printer. The book will define and establish a viable aesthetic and technical foundation for a new art form.