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Lunchtime lecture

Photo by Joe AngelesMichael Frachetti, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, speaks on “Decoding Eurasian Nomadic Networks:Integrating Social and Scientific Approaches” at the lunch session of the Metropolitan St. Louis Grants Conference Jan. 10 in Whitaker Hall.

Science academy names nine faculty as fellows

The 150-year-old mission of the Academy of Science of St. Louis is to “foster the advancement of science and encouragement of public interest in and understanding of the sciences.”

Poetic construction

Photo by Kevin LowderBruce Lindsey (right), dean of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, leads a group of students in a Renga building workshop Jan. 27-28 in Givens Hall.

Of note

John DiPersio, M.D., Ph.D., the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Professor of Medicine, has received a one-year, $21,197 subcontract from Northwestern University for “Phrase I & II Clinical Trials of Cancer Chemopreventive Agents.” … Jennifer L. Ivanovich, research instructor in surgery, has received a one-year, $34,789 grant from the St. Louis Affiliate of the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation for “The Young Women’s Breast Cancer Program.” … Thomas A. Woolsey, M.D., professor of neurological surgery, has received a two-year, $30,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for the Spring Brain Conference.

Memorial service to be held for Karls

A memorial service will be held for Michael and Irene Karl Feb. 23 in the Connor Auditorium at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

Introducing new faculty members

The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. Werner Ploberger, Ph.D., joins the department of economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. He earned a doctorate in applied mathematics at Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 1981 and a Habilitation in Econometrics there in 1993. He has been affiliated with Vienna University of Technology, the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) and the University of Rochester. He was tenured in 1993 (Vienna) and promoted to full professor in 1995 (University of St. Andrews). He has been at the University of Rochester since 1997. His research focus is in the areas of statistics, econometric methodology and time-series econometrics. Stephen Williamson, Ph.D., joins the department of economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. He earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1984 and has since been affiliated with Queen’s, Western Ontario, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the University of Iowa. He was tenured in 1989 (Western Ontario) and promoted to full professor in 1992 (Iowa). He served as department chair at Iowa (2000-03). He is co-editor for Economic Theory and associate editor for Journal of Monetary Economics and Review of Economic Dynamics. His research is mainly on macroeconomics, monetary economics and financial economics. Jimin Ding, Ph.D., joins the department of mathematics in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. Ding earned a doctorate in statistics from the University of California, Davis, under the guidance of Jane-Ling Wang. She works in a modern form of survival analysis using techniques that will be applicable to many other areas of statistics. Xiang Tang, Ph.D., joins the department of mathematics in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He was previously a visiting research professor at the University of California, Davis. He earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under Alan Weinstein. His areas of expertise are noncommutative geometry, symplectic geometry and quantization. He worked on mathematical problems in statistical thermodynamics while still an undergraduate at Peking University.
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