Leaves of Absence
July 1-Dec. 31--Barbara E. James, associate professor, psychiatry, to pursue her studies in psychological and family support services in Islamic cultures; Milton Kotelchuck, professor, maternal & child health, on Kenan leave.
July 1, 1995-June 30, 1996--Marla E. Salmon, professor, public health nursing, to extend her current leave of absence to develop national policy relating to public health and the role of the national nursing work force.
July 3, 1995-July 1, 1996 -- Cecil C. Ussler, clinical social worker, Student Health Services.
Fall semester--Bruce Carney, physics/astronomy, on W.N. Reynolds leave to work on the SOAR telescope project; William A. Darity, economics, on Kenan leave to conduct research on ethnic and racial economic inequality in Chapel Hill and France; David A. Eckerman, psychology, on Kenan leave to develop a computer database summarizing the known cognitive impairments of humans and animals produced by several neurotoxins at Oregon Health Sciences University; Jianqing Fan, statistics, to engage in research at the Hong Kong Chinese University; Leon R. Fink, history, on Kenan leave to engage in research and the writing of a political and intellectual study of American society in the period 1880-1940; W. Jill Fitzgerald, education, on W.R. Kenan, Jr. leave to teach and do research in a 1st grade classroom with migrant and immigrant students who are learning English as a second language; Robert E. Gallman, economics, on Kenan leave to work on a project concerning international capital flows and economic development in Argentina, Australia, Canada and the United States; Katherine R. Jolluck, history, to complete final arrangements for her Ph.D. in Palo Alto, Calif.; James W. Jorgenson, chemistry, on W.R. Kenan, Jr. leave to develop new techniques for high resolution separation of complex mixtures and new means for efficient sample introduction and utilization in mass spectrometers at the Glaxo Research Institute; Eleonora Magomedova, Slavic languages, to research the stylistics of 20th-century Russian prose in Germany; A. Christopher Thompson, physics/astronomy, to participate in research at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
