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UNT awarded $1.16
million in research grants
The Texas Higher Education Coor-
dinating Board awarded the University of
North Texas nearly $1.16 million Oct. 28
as part of its latest allocation of state-sup-
ported research grants.
The money UNT received is for 10
research projects.
Three of the projects
are expected to re-
ceive, in addition to
the state-awarded dol-
lars, about $1 million
from industry.
UNT faculty who
received this state
funding include Dr.
Nicolae Anghel, as-
sistant professor of
mathematics, $27,794,
Sajal Das
"Operator-Theoretic
Topics in Spin Geom-
etry"; Dr. Sajal Das,
associate professor of
computer sciences,
$201,942, "Parallel
Discrete Event Simu-
lation"; and Dr. Eliza-
beth Jacobs, assistant
professor of chemistry,
$84,905, "Fluid Jet
Technology for Pre-
cision Placement of
Dielectrics and Epoxies for Electronics
Manufacturing," and $103,714, "Devel-
opment of a Production Prototype Using
Liquid Solder Jet Technology for Precision
Electronics."
UNT grant recipients also include Dr.
Jose Perez, assistant professor of physics,
$110,824, "Scanning Tunneling Micro-
scopy of Epitaxial Diamond Film Growth";
Elizabeth Jacobs
Vol. 43, No. 4,
December 1993
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
FOR MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION — Susan Rogers
MANAGING EDITOR — Marty Newman
ART DIRECTOR — T. Kelly Cavener
ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR — Amy Layton
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS — Joel Cave, Jimmy Estrada
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Hough, Kurt Iverson, Nancy Kent, Deborah Leliaert, Meka Money, Meredith Murphy,
David Roberts, Barbara Seal, Kay Selby, Peggy Spencer
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ON THE COVER: Judith Casas, student-teacher intern in the College of Education's Professional
Development School, helps Jessica Rangel, a pupil in Cowart Elementary School, Dallas, with
computer applications.
CORRECTIONS: In the September 1993 issue, Carrie Ausbrooks' current title was not included.
She is administrator of the international baccalaureate for the Fort Worth ISD. The cutline beneath
her photo should have read "Doctoral student Carrie Ausbrooks says her degree in educational
administration will give her broader perspective to examine where help is needed in education."
In the September 1993 issue, Betty Anne B. Moseley ('52) was listed as deceased. It is her hus-
band, Carol Ash Moseley ('54), who is deceased.
Kenneth Koelln
Jose Perez
Dr. Russell Pinizzotto,
professor of physics,
and Dr. Dennis Muel-
ler, associate professor
of physics, $245,664,
"Determination of
Remaining Fatigue
and Creep Life Met-
als"; and Dr. Rose
Rubin, professor of
economics and special
assistant to the pro-
vost, and Dr. Kenneth
Koelln, assistant professor of economics,
$121,473, "Alternative Health-Care
Financing Options for Texas: Insuring the
Uninsured."
Also receiving grants at UNT are Dr.
Ruthanne Thomas, associate professor of
, chemistry and depart-
ment chair, $122,337,
"Characterization and
Design of New Syn-
thetically Useful Or-
ganolithium Com-
pounds"; Dr. George
Tsironis, assistant pro-
fessor of physics,
$78,355, "Microscopic
Modelling of Hydro-
gen-Bonded Systems";
and Dr. Luca Zam-
boni, visiting assistant professor of mathe-
matics, and Dr. David DeLatte, assistant
professor of mathematics, $59,419,
"Surface Groups on IR Trees; Normal
Forms and Cocycle."
The coordinating board also awarded
more than $350,000
for three research pro-
jects under way at the
University of North
Texas Health Science
Center at Fort Worth.
The grant recipi-
ents from the UNT
Health Science Center
are Dr. Rafael Al-
varez-Gonzalez, assis-
tant professor of
microbiology and
immunology, $83,600, "Anatomy of Poly
(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase"; Dr. Fred
Downey, professor of physiology, and Dr.
Robert Mallet, assistant professor of phys-
iology, $98,005, "Modulation of
Myocardial Oxygen Demand When
Oxygen Supply is Limited"; and Dr.
Robert W. Gracy, associate dean for basic
science and research, $172,025, "In Vitro
Animal Alternatives for New Product."
—Gary Hancock
Professor of economics
interns in provost's office
Dr. Rose M. Rubin, professor of eco-
nomics, has been appointed to an adminis-
trative internship in the office of Provost
and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Blaine Brownell.
The internship, which will last a max-
imum of three years, will give Rubin expe-
Ruthanne Thomas
Rose Rubin
rience in program
design, budget plan-
ning, goal setting and
evaluation, personnel
interviews and facul-
ty/administration and
student/administration
dispute resolution. She
also will work with
members of the Texas
Higher Education
Coordinating Board
and meet regularly
with UNT administrators.
Rubin, a UNT faculty member since
1977, has served on numerous university,
college and departmental committees,
including the search committee for the
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
the Arts and Sciences Graduate Cur-
riculum Committee, the Arts and Sciences
Undergraduate Advisory Council, the
Faculty Senate and the University Writing
Committee. She was UNT's nominee in
1992 for the Minnie Stevens Piper Award
for outstanding teaching.
An expert in health economics and the
economic status of older Americans,
Rubin has received more than $200,000 in
grants from the Andrus Foundation of the
American Association of Retired Persons
for research on out-of-pocket health-care
expenses among elderly people and expen-
ditures on necessities by older Americans
receiving public assistance.
Rubin is the co-author of Working
Wives and Dual-Earner Families. She also
has written more than 40 journal articles,
book reviews and book chapters and pre-
sented more than 45 papers at state and
national professional meetings and confer-
ences.
She is a member of the Southwestern
Economics Association, which she served
as president, vice president and secretary-
treasurer; the Southwestern Social Science
Association, which she served as treasurer;
the Association for Social Economics; and
the Mid-South Academy of Economics
and Finance. Rubin serves on the editorial
boards of six professional journals.
In addition to teaching at UNT, Rubin
has been a faculty member at Mississippi
State University and Kansas State
University. She was a visiting fellow at
the Brookings Institution in Washington,
D.C., and a Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Faculty Fellow at Johns
Hopkins University.
Rubin received a bachelor's degree
from Wellesley College, a master's degree
from Emory University and a doctoral
degree from Kansas State University.
—Nancy Andersen
Golf tournament raises
money for scholarships
About 180 hospitality executives hit
the links at Dallas' Brookhaven Country
Club in September to benefit future gener-
ations of restaurant and hotel managers.
The University of North Texas
Chancellor's Invitational Golf Tournament
raised $48,000 to go toward scholarships,
faculty development and continuing edu-
cation classes in the hotel and restaurant
management program of UNT's School of
Merchandising and Hospitality Manage-
ment. The event is the school's biggest
fund-raiser.
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