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contents the university 311 Nieuwland Chair in Science Named 311 Law School Expansion 311 Hesburgh to Chair Forum for Business/Education 312 New Taxation Sequence for MBA's 312 Third World Relief Campaign 312 NO Joins Apple University Consortium faculty notes 313 Honors 313 Activities administrators' notes 316 Honors 316 Activities advanced studies 317 Notes for Principal Investigators 317 --Assurance of Compliance with DHHS Regulations on the Protection of Human Research Subjects 322 Information Circulars 322 --Humanities 324 --Fine and Performing Arts 324 --Social Sciences 325 --Science 327 --General 329 Current Publications and Other Scholarly Works February 3, 1984 nieuwland chair in science named would also be additional classrooms and office Dr. J. Kerry Thomas, professor of chemistry, has space, as well as a moot court. Enrollment of the been appointed to the Nieuwland Chair in Science, school, now about 500, will increase slightly. according to Prof. Timothy O'Meara, provost. The expansion, which includes an underground level A native of Hales, Thomas studied chemistry and as well as three above-ground stories, is expected radiation chemistry at the University of to be to the east and southeast of the 54-year-old Manchester, England, where he received B.Sc., tudor gothic building and add about 35,000 square Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees. From 1957-58 he was a feet of space. The Bloomington, Minn., firm of postdoctoral fellow at the National Research Ellerbe Architects and Engineers has been retained Council in Otta~m, Canada, and later conducted to draw up plans. The University will soon research on radiation induced surface graft announce a fund-raising effort to offset the cost polymerization in Harwell, England. From 1g6Q-70 of construction. Thomas was a researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory where he developed the short-pulsed nanosecond laser photolysis and pulse radiolysis techniques no~t widely used in physical chemistry research. He used his own techniques to study the hesburgh to chair forum fundamental chemical processes induced by radiation. for business/education Thomas joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1970, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president, was specializing in physical and radiation chemistry. named chairman of the Business-Higher Education He received the research award of the Radiation Forum (BHEF) at the group's semiannual meeting in Research Society in 1974, and in 1975 ~1as a Gast Scottsdale, Ariz., Jan. 26-28. Professor at the Hahn Meitner Institute in Berlin. He is a member of several professional Founded in 1978 by the American Council on societies and has written over 200 research papers Education~ the BHEF is a national assemblage of and review articles. leading corporate and academic chief executive officers formed to advance common interests of The Nieuwland Chair in Science is a new, fully business and higher learning. Father Hesburgh endovled chair created by the University to succeeds Robert Anderson, chief executive officer memorialize Rev. Julius Nieuwland, C.S.C. It was of the Rockwell International Corporation, and the formulae Nieuwland discovered that led to the will serve two years. development of synthetic rubber in 1931. In addition to discussing the outlook for higher .education throughout the remainder of the decade, Forum members will discuss the quality of business education and review two special Forum reports for law school expansion later dissemination: "Preserving and Enhancing Quality in Higher Education: The Corporate Stake," A $4 million expansion of the Notre Dame Law and "Meeting the Competitive Challenge in Manu School has been announced. A major reason for the facturing: The Need to Automate." Last May, the move is the improvement of library facilities. Forum presented a widely praised report to ·The Kresge Law Library now has about 160,000 President Reagan on the need for improving the volumes, and its new capacity will be around ability of American industry and workers to 300,000. Law School Dean David T. Link said there compete in global markets. Vol. 13, No. 10 Feb. 3, 1984 Notre Dame Report (USPS 707-080) is an official publication published fortnightly during the school year, monthly in the summer, by the University of Notre Dame, Department of Information Services. Second-class postage paid at Notre Dame, Ind. Postmaster: Please send address corrections to: Editor, Notre Dame Report, c/o Rm. 212, Administration Building, Notre Dame, IN 46556 © 1984 by the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------- 311 new taxation sequence for mba.9S Candidates for the master's degree in business administration will be able to concentrate in taxation, according to a new sequence of studies nd joins apple planned to begin in June. The 11-month program extends through one summer session and two regular university consortium semesters and includes one or more courses in the Notre Dame Law School. The University has joined the Apple University Consortium (AUC} by agreeing to purchase $2 Inauguration of the new program resulted from an million of Apple Computer products over the next increasingly complex series of tax acts passed three years. Part of the agreement includes during the last 15 years and the growing demand on substantial discounts to faculty, students and the part of the public accounting firms, business staff through an on-campus computer store. corporations, financial organizations and govern mental agencies for highly trained tax profession Notre Dame is one of 24 national universities to als. The goal of the taxation sequence, according join the consortium, aimed at developing new to James Wittenbach, coordinator of the program, applications for computers in education. is to train students who will be able to integrate Commitments from the schools total more than $60 tax factors into business planning and decision million, most going toward Apple's new Macintosh making and to communicate well with other pro computer. fessionals, especially lawyers and auditors. Students with an undergraduate degree in business Notre Dame's College of Arts and-Letters is and at least three credit hours in an income tax developing plans to use the Macintoshes in three course are eligible to enroll in the new program. instructional laboratories, and is formulating its own courseware -- software programs used solely for teaching. Other applications are being developed in the Colleges of Engineering and of third world relief Science. Gl The agreement also calls for the member universities to meet regularly to discuss new campaign applications and developments in courseware. Notre Dame's tenth annual Third World Relief Fund Richard Spencer, as~istant provost for computing, will again be designed to support private said Notre Dame wtll meet twice a year with the voluntary agencies serving the basic needs of the other 23 members, possibly more often with its poorest sections of the population in Africa, Asia regional counterparts -- Northwestern University, and Latin America. the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. As in previous years, contributions can be channeled to any or all of the following agencies: A General Microcomputer, Inc., satellite store in Catholic Relief Services, Church World Service, the basement of the LaFortune Student Center will CARE, Co-workers of Mother Teresa in America offer discounts to students, faculty and staff Interreligious Foundation on Community ' exceeding 50 percent on some Apple products -- a Organizations/RAINS, OXFAM-America The United Macintosh system retailing at $2,495 will be Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), ~nd Caritas/ offered at $1,090. Individual purchases at the Bangladesh. reduced prices are limited to one system per full-time student, faculty or staff member. Faculty members and administrative staff will be Computer instruction courses and consulting sent a report on last year's campaign and a pledge services will be offered at no cost. card. As conditions are deteriorating for the poorest of the Third World's people, the Committee Notre Dame's membership in the consortium is also for the Third World Relief Fund believes there is part of a long-range computing plan to establish n~ better means at the University community's an on-campus computer network. All Apple systems d1sposal to help check this trend than the installed under the terms of this agreement will self-help focus of the agencies listed above. be compatible with the network. 312 ~C~M£!U!ltJ • ~@~®~~--------------- activities Panos J. Antsaklis, assistant professor of electrical engineering, presented a paper entitled "Canonical Forms Under Dynamic Compensation and Zero Structure at Infinity" at the 22nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 14-16. He also participated in professional meetings of the IEEE Control Systems Society and organizational meetings of the 1984 American Control Conference. Joseph P. Bauer, professor of law, was a guest on the David Barrett Straight Talk program on honors WNIT-TV, Channel 34, on Dec. 19. He spoke about "The Antitrust Implications of the Breakup of the J. Douglas Archer, staff librarian, has been American Te 1ephone and Te 1egraph Company." appointed to the Evaluation and Measurement of Service Committee, Machine Assisted Reference Esmee Cromie Bellalta, associate professor of Section and Adult Services Division of the architecture, presented an invited lecture, "What American Library Association. Should Be the Structure of Space in Contemporary Society?", at the Graduate School of Design, Thomas P. Bergin, dean of continuing education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 5. has been appointed chairman of a national task force on "The Role of Institutional Representa Jaime J. Bellalta, professor of architecture, gave tives" by the University Continuing Education two invited talks at the Graduate School of Association in Washington, D.C. The task force of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.: six distinguished educators will begin a year-long "The Notions of '~/orld' and 'Environment' in study of the association's priorities and the Contemporary Architecture," Jan.